Quotes on the Fly

A Visual History of the Federal Reserve System

Unconventional policy tools in the future

"In that regard, an interesting question is: will those unconventional policy tools become conventional policy tools in normal times?"

Haruhiko Kuroda, Bank of Japan, May 29, 2019

...on Quantitative Diseasing in America.

"And that Quantitative Easing as it is called is always contractionary and deflationary, and that we’re having a bull market and economic expansion DESPITE it, not BECAUSE of it."

Ken Fisher, Fisher Investment, Capital Markets Update: Summer 2017

Inverted Yield Curve (Nearly Always) Signals Tight Monetary Policy, Rising Unemployment

"In other words, monetary policy’s brake pedal is more powerful than its gas pedal."

Evan F. Koenig and Keith R. Phillips, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, February 12, 2019

Information in the Yield Curve about Future Recessions

"Furthermore, when interpreting the yield curve evidence, one should keep in mind the adage “correlation is not causation.”

Michael D. Bauer and Thomas M. Mertens, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, August 27, 2018

The FOMC policy rate projections versus reality

Federal Funds Rate, 2012 - 2017

James Bullard, FRB-St. Louis, Jan. 12, 2017

Observations Lab

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“We suffer textile amnesia because we enjoy textile abundance.“

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Virginia Postrel

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, Basic Books, December 7, 2021

''You are the media now.''

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Elon Musk

X, November 6, 2024

“I think I finally understand the politics of joy!“

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Nathalie Winter, Steve Bannon

Bannons War Room, November 6th, 2024

''If globalists weren’t so dangerous they would be laughed at non-stop.''

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Alex Christoforou

18 July 2024

''The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us."

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Elon Musk

X, July 12, 2024

''The peak of the bubble was also in a sense the peak of clarity.''

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Peter Thiel

The Aspen Institute, 28 June 2024

''You’ll never be forgiven for being right."

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Neil Oliver

The Jimmy Dore Show, “It’s Going To Get Ugly!” – Says Neil Oliver In Interview w/ Jimmy Dore, 4 June 2024

“Everything woke turns to s**t.”

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Donald J. Trump

Cullman, Alabama, 22 August 2021

''What I am essentially describing is military rule.''

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Tucker Carlson, Mike Benz

Tucker Carlson Uncensored, Tucker Carlson Network, February 16, 2024

''You can't deduce from this the rule that because people are unequal you ought to treat them unequally in order to make them equal.''

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Friedrich von Hayek

Firing Line, PBS, November 1977

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"I am not yet tir'd of doing nothing."

David Hume Letter to Adam Smith, January 1766

"Let us try for once not to be right."

Samuel Rosenstock, aka Tristan Tzara, a French-Romanian poet and essayist.

"Dada Manifesto", 1918, translated by Robert Motherwell, in "Dada Painters and Poets".

Cheats and Deceits

How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead

Martin Stevens, Oxford University Press, February 2016

Bristlecone Pines and Markets

Bristlecone Pines do very well where most other plants cannot even grow. What would be the equivalent in today's markets?

The Great Crash, Depression, Deflation and FDR

DJIA, 1929 - 1940

Japanese markets across a century of events

1900 - 2000

Nominal and Real Returns on Japanese Asset Classes

Swiss markets across a century of events

1900 - 2000

Nominal and Real Returns on Swiss Asset Classes

The Russian Stock Market Before the Revolution

"Russian stocks advanced more in price than American stocks between 1864 and 1914, but American companies paid larger dividends. Price and dividends offset each other and during that 45-year period, the two stock markets provided approximately equal returns."

Dr. Brian Taylor, Global Financial Data, 21 March 2018