Now that the tax deadline is over we can get on with everything else. Enough has happened in the last two weeks to make big waves in the markets. Earnings season, Japan, and falling gold prices all made news. Two matter, one does not, unless you owned gold.
Japan kicked things off with an aggressive monetary policy announcement. It will follow the Feds playbook to jump-start its economy. If you didn’t know, the Bank of Japan has fought deflation for the past two decades and failed.
It’s latest attempt to jump-start inflation will throw 60 to 70 trillion yen at the problem. If it works, it would push more money out of savings accounts and into stocks. Sound familiar?
We can add one more country to the list of long-term debt buyers trying to boost an economy. Continue Reading…
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