Category: Markets Written by Glen Asher

The Federal Reserve released its Domestic Open Market Operations during 2013, summarizing its actions during the year.  This report gives us a summary of the Federal Open Market Committee's policies and how they impacted the Federal Reserve's now bloated balance sheet.   Let's open with a look at

Category: Economy Written by Glen Asher

A single sentence in a recent IMF Article IV Consultation by the IMF shows us how the world's current economic situation can only be termed "unusual".   Here's the sentence:   "Negative

Category: Markets Written by Glen Asher

Now that Janet Yellen has telegraphed what the Federal Reserve will be doing next, with the economy looking rather weak at best, one has to ask, what happened to all of that monetary stimulus that Ben Bernanke implemented that was supposed to benefit the U.S. economy?