Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Bullard: Super hawk gets in blab mode the moment the market begins to crater in October… we can always bring on QE 4!
Fisher: We need to raise interest rates!
Bullard (back in hawk costume, feathers, talons, sharp beak and all): We need a rate hike sooner rather than later!
Evans: No hurry to raise rates!
Williams: Fed should not be too patient on rate hikes (more…)
Old MacDonald had an oil farm, E-I-A, E-I-A, Oh!
With a stop run here and a stop run there,
here a stop, there a stop, everywhere a retail stop, E-I-A, E-I-A, Oh!
Wednesdays are Prince Spaghetti Day. They are also when the US Energy Information Administration releases its weekly petroleum status and crude oil inventories (except during holiday weeks). Check out the last 3 EIA news scam days.
My exasperation with Greece’s new government utterly selling out, rolling over, wimping out, caving in, and {insert your own metaphor here} is well expressed in some of the grumbling going over at sister site ZH:
Mark Hulbert has a piece this morning at MarketWatch in which he de-correlates the first Fed interest rate hike from any supposedly corresponding stock market movements. I agree with some but not all of what he writes. Let’s take it a chunk at a time.
Investors, it doesn’t matter when the Fed raises rates
Are you obsessed with whether the Federal Reserve will begin to raise official interest rates in July, September or sometime next year?
Open Letter to the New Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis
(This letter ran on the following notable blogs: Zerohedge, David Stockman’s ContraCorner, Dmitry Orlov’s Blog, and The StealthFlation Blog)
