That’s One Heck of a Drug! SchiffGold Friday Gold Wrap Dec. 22, 2023

US stocks surged with the promise of interest rate cuts. Then stocks tanked when some Fed officials tried to walk that promise back. Then they surged again when some weak economic data put rate cuts back on the table. As Friday Gold Wrap host Mike Maharrey put it, easy money is one heck of a drug! In this episode, he explains the impact of easy money on the economy and the markets, and he speculates about the future.

TOPICS DISCUSSED

If I could print money
The world is buried in debt
The impact of high interest rates
The Fed walks the dove back
Stocks rally
Stocks tank with an outside reversal
Stocks rally again
Bank bailout program borrowing surges again

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