The Invisible Cost Of War In The Age Of Quantitative Easing
Through increasingly unscrupulous monetary policy, U.S. government officials mask the costs of war from the American public. Bitcoin could fix this.On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to initiate a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Russian people, outside of a few thousand brave and quickly-punished protestors, had no way to prevent their government from going to war. It was the decision of a dictator.Because there are no structural domestic checks and balances on Putin’s power, he was able to unilaterally push forward with an invasion that seems deeply....
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Quantitative Easing and Bitcoin. The European Central Bank has recently announced a 1.1 trillion Euro sovereign bond purchasing program. This action in broadly referred to as Quantitative Easing. It is a monetary policy brought into existence by the Bank of Japan on March 19th, 2001. The first concept to understand in relation to Quantitative Easing is that no expert or policy-maker truly knows how this monetary experiment ends because it is a historically unprecedented action. A 15 year existence is a negligible amount of time in the history of human commerce. With that in mind, while....
Unlike the central banks’ quantitative easing policy, the reduction of new funds being pumped into the Bitcoin ecosystem is stabilizing the price. It is not the first time some experts are pointing towards Bitcoin as an asset to keep an eye on whenever financial trouble seems to be looming on the horizon. Cryptocurrency is a once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunity, due its scarcity and global availability. Even though some people may argue it is too late to invest in Bitcoin or other currencies, that is far from the case. Moreover, the policies employed by banks to solve the economic....
Since well before the onset of Covid-19, the U.S. Federal Reserve had initiated monetary easing policies and from then on, the M1 Money Stock supply skyrocketed to levels never-before-seen in history. This weekend reports disclosed that the Fed has started to taper quantitative easing (QE) when it removed $351 billion from the market last week. This Tuesday the Fed revealed it completed a reverse repo operation for $432.9 billion. On May 22, Bitcoin.com News reported on the Federal Reserve initiating overnight reverse repos (RRP) to the tune of $351 billion. Tuesday’s recently....
Anyone who understands the "undeclared" global currency war can agree that there can't be a real winner in the end. For those who are new to this concept, central banks around the globe have embarked on monetary easing by way of adopting quantitative easing or by lowering their interest rates, in order to awash their respective financial systems with liquidity. Even though central banks argue that low interest rates or infusing liquidity is vital to reviving consumer demands in the flailing economies, there is more truth to that! Nations adopt such extreme measures in order to devalue....
Yesterday, following the eagerly anticipated Fed Policy Statement in which it acknowledged the termination of Quantitative easing (QE), the Bitcoin price took a downward path along with Gold. We consider the outlook for the global economy in the weeks ahead as well as the implications for the Bitcoin price. Start of the Post-Fed QE Era. Global Economy. Bitcoin Price Correlation with Gold. Summary. Comments. Start of the Post-Fed QE Era. The Fed being the world's most powerful central bank - a veritable "center" of all central banks - their decisions and policy lead cascades to all other....