Posts Tagged ‘Brussels’

Notes From Underground: Three Cheers For the Fed (They Kept Out of the Fray)

June 29, 2016

It has become standard operating procedure for the FED to enter the market in an effort to minimize the impact of any low probability event with market disrupting outcomes.The BREXIT vote surprised the markets but the FED allowed investors to absorb the financial pain and stayed in the watchtower.

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Notes From Underground: In the Battle of the European Balance Sheet Bulges, Cameron Says “NUTS”

December 11, 2011

Almost 67 years ago, U.S. General McAuliffe told the German command that the U.S. forces at Bastogne would not surrender and actually said it in a one-word response: NUTS. In a parallel response to German/Franco demands that all European nations surrender their sovereignty by succumbing to a “FISCAL COMPACT”, British Prime Minister David Cameron basically said the same as the U.K. moved to cast a veto vote on the proposals that resulted from the European Summit.

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