{"id":17451,"date":"2012-01-25T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=17451"},"modified":"2012-01-25T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T20:25:12","slug":"the-fed-statement-side-by-side-more-sink-throwing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/the-fed-statement-side-by-side-more-sink-throwing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fed Statement &#8211; Side By Side (More Sink Throwing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fed spoke and they have once again thrown in the kitchen sink. TWIST, QE and EXT (extension) are just some of the reasons for investor optimism. Of course, Bernanke is the master of mis-direction, so there may be more coming out of Europe within a short time that is not going to be agreeable to markets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewhorowitz\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @andrewhorowitz<\/a> <script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Non-the-less, the stage is set for the market to rally, bonds to rally and buyers to step in on the news. Do we have another Tepper moment, or will this be the last gasp before the reality sets in that there is little more room for the Fed to provide any additional <!--more-->accommodation?<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, it is a shame that fiscal policy cannot become more of an important component of any stimulus measures.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Fed Side by Side 20120125 on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/79378514\/Fed-Side-by-Side-20120125\">Fed Side by Side 20120125<\/a> <object id=\"doc_86135\" style=\"outline: medium none;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=79378514&amp;access_key=key-2gm8jw9zklsax4gtfoa3&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"doc_86135\" style=\"outline: medium none;\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" FlashVars=\"document_id=79378514&amp;access_key=key-2gm8jw9zklsax4gtfoa3&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fed spoke and they have once again thrown in the kitchen sink. TWIST, QE and EXT (extension) are just some of the reasons for investor optimism. Of course, Bernanke is the master of mis-direction, so there may be more coming out of Europe within a short time that is not going to be agreeable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-17451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-economy","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}