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Mission Not-Even-Started

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As you can see from all the green splashed on your quote screen, the central bankers of the world have already panicked and are running around screaming their heads off, quickly undoing their feeble efforts at quantitative tightening and reverting to their multi-decade playbook of endless quantitative easing.

Let’s look at our own Federal Reserve’s monstrous balance sheet and see just how far their loudly-touted QT efforts have gone. You can plainly see here the many trillions of dollars they’ve gobbled up over the years. You can also make out, just barely, the subtle little softening of growth in recent months, as they ever-ever-ever-so-slowly bleed off a teeny-tiny bit of their trillions.

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