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Prepare For A "Reckoning" In The Soft Landing Narrative | Jesse Felder

Inflection Point

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The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Market Structure

One of the explicit aims of quantitative easing is to push investors out along the risk curve. Fed lowers interest rates to spur assets and that in itself leads to this idea that markets can't go down for very long before the Fed comes to the rescue. That passive buying helps the Fed with creating the wealth effect. And so it's a kind of a self-reinforcing thing. But I think we're going to get to a point where, as Bill Fleckenstein has said, at some point the bond market takes the printing press away from the Fed.

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