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2013 was no doubt quite a bad year for gold investors. The huge sellout was a primary reason for this. Yet despite this major change in long positions, the outlook for gold does not seem bad. In the second part of 2013 a big debate about the central bank’s policy was initiated. It was all about Bernankish interventions in the financial market, which resulted in the explosion in the Fed’s balance sheet from billions to trillions of dollars. Since 2008 it was no doubt a huge transformation, and one that had a long lasting influence until the present day.
As we last presented our Market Overview the Fed decided to adjust its activity in the financial markets. As we’ve also seen the decision was much in the spirit of “how much do we have to change in order not to change anything?” The very serious issue to be discussed was the so called “tapering”. And apparently it finally happened. The Fed decided to back out from its policy of expansionary buying programs. What does this seeming backing out look like today? We can read in the Federal Open Market Committee statement in December 2013: “Beginning in January, the Committee will add to its holdings of agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $35 billion per month rather than $40 billion per month, and will add to its holdings of longer-term Treasury securities at a pace of $40 billion per month rather than $45 billion per month”.
In other words, every month the Fed will print 5 billion dollars less than in the past to buy additional government securities, and 5 billion dollars less each month to buy additional private assets. That gives us total of 10 billion each month less than in the past, 120 billion less printing every year. “What a great sum of money, what a major shift in policy” – one would be inclined to say, wouldn’t he? Now the Fed is going to print 75 billion dollars, not 85 billion dollars as it used to. But wait a minute…
That’s like saying that a bath tub is getting empty, because the water is coming in at a 10 percent slower pace. Which would obviously be nonsensical. A reduction in future buying of government and agency assets can be considered as some form of reduction, but let us not be misdirected. The Fed is still promising to print and will print 75 billion dollars each month in order to bid the prices of government securities and private assets. That will give us a total of 900 billion dollars for the whole year – those additional green backs being churned out in order to stimulate the economy. This is no tapering at all. This is a very small friendly creature, which should rather be called “taperie”.
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