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Critics said his decisions would cause hyperinflation and asset bubbles. But speaking with his two predecessors, Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, and his successor, Janet Yellen, Ben Bernanke defends the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet by pointing to a lack of dire outcomes from his monetary policy.

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Chair of the Policy Research Council of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, Tomomi Inada
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Inada speaking in a Bloomberg TV interview

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The Coppock Curve tells us the market is at a significant juncture point Those pesky credit spreads are deteriorating again The US credit markets are close to some important signals
The Coppock Curve tells us the market is at a significant juncture point Chart 1 features a long-term smoothed momentum indicator called the “Coppock Curve”. It was designed by the late Mr. E.S…

A dovish-sounding Fed, worries about central banking and the market’s risk-off mode are pushing the yen higher, according to Thomas Costerg of Standard Chartered.

Forex news for Asia trading Friday 8 April 2016
We got comments from Federal Reserve Kansas branch head Esther George today. But it was George Costanza who was most influential in FX, with an ‘opposite’ day playing out. Comments out of Japan jawboning the yen lower sent it higher yesterday, but those same comments repeated today sent it down. Opposite day.

In this week’s Off The Cuff podcast, Chris and John Rubino discuss:

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A Malaysian state development fund’s board of directors offered to resign after a report that found billions of dollars went missing from the fund but which made no mention of Prime Minister Najib Razak, prompting critics to accuse officials of shielding him.
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