“It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class”-Bear Bryant/Alabama
Kind of how I feel when Uncle Ben grabs a mike. I’m so tired of rooting for bureaucrats and charlatans from the Halls of Academia. Ben and Timmy have been wrong on just about everything they touch. I actually believed Greenspan in the very beginning until it was too late. Kind of like dropping your kids at Michael Jackson’s house for a sleepover until the third glass of wine at dinner with wifey when you get that sinking feeling that something just ain’t right.
Ben gets the mike today at the FOMC rate meeting. Nothing will happen, at least not at this go round. The markets are too thin around the holidays for Ben to cause a ruckus, so expect the buzz phrase “extended period” to be bandied about. Ben won’t do anything on rates until the March meeting in front of Congress anyway. Look for rates to rise though without Ben or Timmy as the Fed can’t control the long end of the yield curve anyway, just look at the 10 year. Get your TBT ready if you haven’t already.
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Darden raised to buy at Morgan.
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PRU sees $1.5 billion gain on WFC pact.