<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:37:31 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/easing/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[QUANTITATIVE EASING]]></title><description><![CDATA[PRINT MOARRRRR MONEYYY$$$$ ALWAYS MORE MONEY // QUANTITATIVE EASING Original track by yours truly funk stuff with saturated bass, synths and distortion :P]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-158694/@vachemorte/quantitative-easing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-158694/@vachemorte/quantitative-easing</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-158694]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[vachemorte]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:56:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/k75bsZMwYNu2L3iBMXq5y7xeiy1isFJsZxnMZSXuXEsxe4ee1cUkGyPwkMw5T84QdrJLzj93HfGYgCMRC7YXw8DHi69SAXQwhxjakrNGtbUAQDSE1VXWGKKcP6rbYQXEtcmvkTSCLQMYRAW9ugfBW6GtD2H7BbcnS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost Macro Knowledge - Bailout of 33 A.D.]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is about the most insane economical history we have, also the first we have related, the financial crise in Rome 33 A.D. , same year that Jesus was cruxificated. So, wtf this has to do with]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/history/@dstampede/lost-macro-knowledge-bailout-of-33-ad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/history/@dstampede/lost-macro-knowledge-bailout-of-33-ad</guid><category><![CDATA[history]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[dstampede]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2022 16:08:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gKjXsrozapsD83FxL3Xbyyi5LFttAhrXxr16mCe4arfLHJKoBsKFVNFga4Z48XzsrBKSDULB6yamawP49VhMDzHX6A77EAt5rtBSVRoPTvLT6p5J7XMXjNbqgRqtqw6x74BAQvoF8hdkKq7H2shJ2cCCu9aTLmc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we really experiencing inflation?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The price of consumer item X going up does not cause inflation. Neither is it proof of inflation. It's just one item with any number of possible causes for the price increase. And as economists say, never]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/economics/@arbitration/are-we-really-experiencing-inflation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/economics/@arbitration/are-we-really-experiencing-inflation</guid><category><![CDATA[economics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[arbitration]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:02:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8DAuGnTQCLptZgjHUrRAJGcW4y1D4A5QVJJ7zjzqqKdfVHSS6NapSCC5zdHVBsg9fyvrKGyJb5T77FUiA9zoiy381pV5ZGyM7cbiMDgcT9G4pmeS4EnSJJ2eFEM5yYTCev2d96EbFvD85i28so9YyNKU3z5k1qt2oRcUeCDjEf8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fed Is Not Going To Tighten]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States Federal Reserve is not going to tighten. Unless we are in the land of flying elephants and purple bunnies, the reality is the Fed is in a corner and tightening is not going to happen.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@taskmaster4450le/the-fed-is-not-going-to-tighten</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@taskmaster4450le/the-fed-is-not-going-to-tighten</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[taskmaster4450le]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 01:43:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW4PvRk9nXC1RsHWxNoWjhqsdMpcQg2CdeVDKvF597MEqvTRatQSadnQDbkCD2V8P6RGLVm3keSxwvKTxs1x7X2k9EiZdtCt2CdmmkTUuTDx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life feels like a slow-motion inverse train wreck.]]></title><description><![CDATA[The last couple of months have felt like the inverse of the slow-motion train wreck of early 2020. I don't know if there's a good compact idiom for "there's a shining glorious world on the horizon,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/lockdown/@arbitration/life-feels-like-a-slow-motion-inverse-train-wreck</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/lockdown/@arbitration/life-feels-like-a-slow-motion-inverse-train-wreck</guid><category><![CDATA[lockdown]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[arbitration]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:38:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8DAuGnTQCLptZgjHUrRAJGcW4y1D4A5QVJJ7zjzqqKdfVHSS6NapSCC5zdHVBsg9fyvrKGyJb5T6Bj3RoG8HGh1aAba2SW5iq1q1RgvbJ53F6uVFTMAqdH9SrvBUWDHwREckAAcKuPMRgYL11ZDfuvY87smoEuTF841UuJfYtq4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abbott's timing is spectacularly bad. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our case curve has stopped falling, and for the moment it appears flat. When it stopped declining, B.1.1.7 (British variant) was about 15% of positive tests. There's a bit of a testing lag, but by now]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/covid/@zafrada/abbotts-timing-is-spectacularly-bad</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/covid/@zafrada/abbotts-timing-is-spectacularly-bad</guid><category><![CDATA[covid]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zafrada]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 10:54:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/26uUsAjKTsXCDw7zixZR182JbFKvgzJ9YwsFpTVcRaGCmsqhA1unTgpra1Kwf2Avsq5j4856hwjj1bSZYR3pgdWXi7YvVFvzZhsoYiZkfXouoq3TRVhmw5yQoW62MjJ8WFUueNzG7kpiUiX77HG6DmxDfad1xK3iPX5aFQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The disjointed state of the pandemic in the US and why Texas easing is a mistake.]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don't really like using national level data for this pandemic. What truly matters are local virus conditions and resource pressure. Aggregating ends up obscuring a lot. The pandemic has had disjointed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/covid/@zafrada/the-disjointed-state-of-the-pandemic-in-the-us-and-why-texas-easing-is-a-mistake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/covid/@zafrada/the-disjointed-state-of-the-pandemic-in-the-us-and-why-texas-easing-is-a-mistake</guid><category><![CDATA[covid]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zafrada]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:57:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/W5LtFUPm6g7293LJ3Vg8LGMxSXJbQHxtovyJAqw2j9RsivpZ42YcysxCqmeQugxqbiMmbQy4rs6iz61jvjM4ZWCsMsPyn8WAzGBtUbuJQmZW4kvVticn3iZoQwtv71zs2dvGVut6FoCGf3im3tn1b9je53n4J?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[$23 Trillion In Money Printing In the 2010s And This Is What We Have]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sometimes going against the narrative can be tough especially when it is completely wrong. Have you heard of this thing called inflation? This is some scary stuff because it is highway robbery. And now,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@taskmaster4450le/usd23-trillion-in-money-printing-in-the-2010s-and-this-is-what-we-have</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@taskmaster4450le/usd23-trillion-in-money-printing-in-the-2010s-and-this-is-what-we-have</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[taskmaster4450le]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2020 01:16:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35bVGjGoE93K3E4U5KX8KtMBJ2ri6Nd6kJSRsvGfAK7WE1qVkqsN9nD5kyk97qStSmYWGye4v6FFVHKBhNCj4ZUXuM9qJyHy995K4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The curious case of Wisconsin. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Less than two weeks ago, Wisconsin's supreme court (which is controlled by Republicans) declared the lock down orders unconstitutional. This meant that businesses were in the clear to reopen. However,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/wisconsin/@arbitration/the-curious-case-of-wisconsin</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/wisconsin/@arbitration/the-curious-case-of-wisconsin</guid><category><![CDATA[wisconsin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[arbitration]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2020 13:00:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/5bEGgqZEHBMe6s3wiPgGFTi3naqHERgdwJew6rJYRaB3RR7sSAdZKnpJsFx5ZTUUrUibFNjY1jdd3qGCWTmkZ7FAdmdTMHgJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is The Fed Doing?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another week, another couple trillion dollars. What the heck is going on here? Is the Fed trying to prop up the stock market? Are they interested in generating inflation? The answer is neither of these.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@taskmaster4450le/what-is-the-fed-doing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hive-167922/@taskmaster4450le/what-is-the-fed-doing</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-167922]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[taskmaster4450le]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:38:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWWp7opDK69o1nzofFJo4TDbSjW2ZrYCDds4Hf3j6MxzyXtQzxMHfZZXyUDJwNxN4EZ2YombK1ERqyZVqtnfACQfmAM34P8PNoFahZ8DBavJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[ECB to resume money printing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Did they ever stop? Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush... When you gain some wisdom, you realise that sometimes you just need to let things go, the red cordial ain't]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/partiko/@jagged/ecb-to-resume-money-printing-f2hvbryp</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/partiko/@jagged/ecb-to-resume-money-printing-f2hvbryp</guid><category><![CDATA[partiko]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jagged]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2019 01:30:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjVtYhc8EyUCS1n2TpsbpKuDhBkZTQTi2NsGVP3cuDYfbsXixUJZf2jvXi2cdRzf1vcvvRPQ9J8ejVfnTESW9G6mG82MZmuf5gwZN9NbcVELv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easing != inflation ?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm not mister finance ... so you should maybe read for yourself and make up your own mind to increase the money supply, effectively lowering the cost of money easing ( investopedia ) (src + img WallstreetMojo]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/inflation/@rudyardcatling/easing-inflation</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/inflation/@rudyardcatling/easing-inflation</guid><category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[rudyardcatling]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:10:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/62PdCouTvNPCrqBxU5xSWp1eLXQoFNa1XFppgNC6hQPH8xV1qZNF2o7dSW5b4jE6KdmEQryJB6yBQpQgkMWKWXdvqYmx85x9q7xutVwrwRjTD5Y?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Real "Helicopter Money": Since 2009, China Has Created $21 Trillion Of New Money, More Than Double The US]]></title><description><![CDATA[Back in the days of the Fed's QE, much of thinking analyst world (the non-thinking segment would merely accept everything that the Fed did without question, after all their livelihood depended on it),]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/economy/@zer0hedge/the-real-helicopter-money-since-2009-china-has-created-usd21-trillion-of-new-money-more-than-double-the-us</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/economy/@zer0hedge/the-real-helicopter-money-since-2009-china-has-created-usd21-trillion-of-new-money-more-than-double-the-us</guid><category><![CDATA[economy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[zer0hedge]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 17:02:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/9MuxuSTRyd9BrSfcVFEg574n2PEvU8auoPdbCJj7JtG2mH9iJmxFc5sLYToMwnZUECBoLbjfyuqBPrMCXMX5KrUmPgBPkQUuP548FKMDnM3wm7omiHJAphqx9GpZi6tLoux5EBfvBRBhZoW6vkoE4dAau6fDzc7fnThGvsynpbxtqhoq2qSXUfQRHmQXWDSKfGBUFE8dHR4CnSAQz6rWJTXCkuNbbyhbjFrRqrVyY94Jzj38jybBBRmWcXPXMcdBE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Masonic Trump Slithers In Fed "Quantitative Easing" Debt Slavery]]></title><description><![CDATA[When the President calls for Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing, others need to realize the Trump economy is a smoke screen. Propped up by the same endless debt that previous economic hitmen presidents]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dtube/@edifyingothers/3zd8bip8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dtube/@edifyingothers/3zd8bip8</guid><category><![CDATA[dtube]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[edifyingothers]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2019 04:27:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/46aP2QbqUqBqwzwxM6L1P6uLNceBDDCM6ww9bZFknzmpSwsaCjPLyywgxGqGr4WyZHMFGph7N8jPqUeqNxgs8CoLsRTi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Jim Cramer Is Wrong About The Fed And Interest Rates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jim Cramer was an outpoken critic of the Fed and Chairman Powell's push to "normalize". He felt this was wrong and was vocal about it. It is no surprise that Cramer praised the Fed Chairman for]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/cramer/@finprep/why-jim-cramer-is-wrong-about-the-fed-and-interest-rates</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/cramer/@finprep/why-jim-cramer-is-wrong-about-the-fed-and-interest-rates</guid><category><![CDATA[cramer]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[finprep]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:48:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pEPvDbJDzhdNXM7mjt1tbr2kM3X28F6SraZgXjiL5tS8FnL2a9iBUecLrMMansWsjdCFLW53d5JzrsTvEz9Rm7xCbotkjzRetWokZjs244UYGW?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinion: Stock-market investors, it’s time to hear the ugly truth]]></title><description><![CDATA[The naysayers are often wrong and do nothing more than cry over spilled milk. This time, however, they could be the ones on the money. Over the past few years many stated how the markets were not reaching]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/markets/@finprep/opinion-stock-market-investors-it-s-time-to-hear-the-ugly-truth</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/markets/@finprep/opinion-stock-market-investors-it-s-time-to-hear-the-ugly-truth</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[finprep]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2019 23:33:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iP4gZGbVEBNsHESVzYZqycM7q9NFqXNKH6TXwoThBk7VdXMmNPdQB4on5NXHzfsqpHJBqZNMiAi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Primacy Of Income: The Era Of Gains is over]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the past 12 years, grow in household wealth is attributed to an increase in the prices of assets. This could be a problem if the "bubble of everything" implodes. With each drawdown of the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/interestrates/@finprep/the-primacy-of-income-the-era-of-gains-is-over</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/interestrates/@finprep/the-primacy-of-income-the-era-of-gains-is-over</guid><category><![CDATA[interestrates]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[finprep]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2018 02:34:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPJx4E5RLPqs1hWwDAZfB419RL3B9ojbRQMmxp8Nqyk2U6m5UesnouYxcCE62msBBJJjp8th6Er?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perma-bear Albert Edwards warns stocks are drunk on Kool-Aid as recession looms]]></title><description><![CDATA[The stock market, like most asset classes, benefited from a decade long easing by the central banks of the world. Albert Edwards believes that it is starting to look a lot like 2007. At that time, the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/markets/@finprep/perma-bear-albert-edwards-warns-stocks-are-drunk-on-kool-aid-as-recession-looms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/markets/@finprep/perma-bear-albert-edwards-warns-stocks-are-drunk-on-kool-aid-as-recession-looms</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[finprep]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:53:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPUn96JUTFsuQG7WYtCUQWjN5529rYhpyMUxp1pKcUMdDN75SZ3R8EDLVZgEq85XM7jN9fDUJbQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[La velocidad del dinero como muestra de su centralización]]></title><description><![CDATA[La impresión de dinero o el endeudamiento público no son necesariamente malos para la sociedad, no tienen que repercutir negativamente en el desempeño económico de un pais, sino ser impulsores del crecimiento]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dinero/@hugodeanda/la-velocidad-del-dinero-como-muestra-de-su-centralizacion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dinero/@hugodeanda/la-velocidad-del-dinero-como-muestra-de-su-centralizacion</guid><category><![CDATA[dinero]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[hugodeanda]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:14:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/C3TZR1g81UNaPs7vzNXHueW5ZM76DSHWEY7onmfLxcK2iPABPUmZ7XTaRvoKZ7RvjxxqjmxZcJ2iW5eAXCs4zprXXaqvcBoLDaCptQ9aYtsBzfo6bfjs9ci?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[House of Cards]]></title><description><![CDATA[     My last post talked about the consolidation of wealth. This time I want to address stock buy-backs.  In the first quarter of 2018, Apple Inc bought back over $23 BILLION of it's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/investing/@andunityforall/house-of-cards</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/investing/@andunityforall/house-of-cards</guid><category><![CDATA[investing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[andunityforall]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 19:13:12 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>