BOOM 17TH DEC 2021 E.O AS PREDICTED, THE FED GETS TOUGH, INTEREST RATES GOING UP, INCLUDING IN THE U.K
Keep a close eye on the fall out, the Multinational banks will start making the news in strange ways with strange excuses, staff getting laid off due to automation, resignations and cuts to reduce or eliminate assets.
==Tapering - what does it mean - linked below.
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What Is Tapering?
Tapering refers to policies that modify traditional central bank activities. Tapering efforts are primarily aimed at interest rates and at controlling investor perceptions of the future direction of interest rates. Tapering efforts may include changing the discount rate or reserve requirements.
Tapering may also involve the slowing of asset purchases, which, theoretically, leads to the reversal of quantitative easing (QE) policies implemented by a central bank. Tapering is instituted after QE policies have accomplished the desired effect of stimulating and stabilizing the economy.
Tapering can only be instituted after some kind of economic stimulus program has already been operated.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Tapering is the theoretical reversal of quantitative easing (QE) policies, which are implemented by a central bank and intended to stimulate economic growth.
Tapering refers specifically to the initial reduction in the purchasing of and accumulation of central bank assets.
As a result of their dependence on sustained monetary stimulus under QE, the financial markets may experience a downturn in response to tapering; this is known as a "taper tantrum."
Taper tantrums may lead central banks to promptly re-accelerate asset purchases (and essentially reverse the process of tapering).
Central banks, for the most part, have not been able to sustainably unwind their expanded balance sheets.
Understanding Tapering
Tapering is the reduction of the rate at which a central bank accumulates new assets on its balance sheet under a policy of QE. Tapering is the first step in the process of either winding down—or completely withdrawing from—a monetary stimulus program that has already been executed.
When central banks pursue an expansionary policy to stimulate an economy in a recession, they often explicitly promise to reverse their stimulatory policies once the economy has recovered. This is because continuing to stimulate an economy with easy money once the recession is over can lead to out-of-control inflation, monetary policy-driven asset price bubbles, and an overheated economy.
How Do Central Banks Execute Tapering?
Communicating openly with investors regarding the direction of central bank policy and future activities helps to set market expectations and reduce market uncertainty. This is why central banks typically employ a gradual taper, rather than abruptly halting expansionary monetary policies.
Central banks help alleviate any market uncertainty by outlining their approach to tapering and by outlining the specific conditions under which tapering will either continue or discontinue. In this regard, any foreseen reductions in QE policies are communicated about in advance, allowing the market to begin making adjustments prior to the activity actually taking place.
In the case of QE, the central bank would announce its plans to slow asset purchases and either sell off or allow assets to mature. This is intended to reduce the amount of total central bank assets and, in turn, the money supply.
LONG ARTICULE WORTH READING TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE JARGON OF LANGUAGE WHICH THE BANKSTERS USE TO GET AWAY WITH THEIR CRIMINAL DEEDS