[228] The Japanese QE experiment, Rickards on China and Merkel on investing

Our lead story: Just yesterday, we told you that QE was done – the Fed closed the door on its third program of large scale asset purchases to expand its balance sheet and QE3 was history. However, as the Japanese show us, QE is an economic policy zombie that no amount of garlic protection can prevent from rising up again to work its magic on our global economy! Erin weighs in. Then, Erin talks to Jim Rickards – chief global strategist at West Shore Funds and author of The New York Times bestselling book "The Death of Money." Jim tells Erin how far Chinese growth will have to fall in order to make a successful rebalancing a possibility and gives us his prediction on what will happen if oil prices continue to stay weak. After the break, Erin sits down with David Merkel – founder and president of Aleph Investments. The top 449 companies in the S&P 500 spent $2.4 trillion – more than half their profits – on buybacks between 2003 and 2012. David tells us what he thinks is the driving factor behind this and gives us his top macro investment ideas for the next few years. And in The Big Deal, Erin and Edward Harrison talk about Japan. Take a look! Check us out on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BoomBustRT https://www.facebook.com/harrison.writedowns https://www.facebook.com/erinade2020 Follow us @ http://twitter.com/ErinAde http://twitter.com/edwardnh

Comments

1. Is this bimbo really a person, or is she a marionette with all the hands moving & arm waving...?.
   Hmmmm.... it's decided, a bimbo and a  marionette.
   (such dumb and useless questions )
2. QE is dead, long live the QE.....pfft
3. Japan is in depression???  They are doing pretty good for a depression.
   
   And why would they want to increase immigration and destroy themselves--just for money:???
   
   Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for Everyone is White Genocide.  Stop promoting it in American, The West or elswhere.
4. Risk of defl... what? I know there are over a thousand historical cases of over/hyper-inflation that destroyed entire economies. Where is the historical evidence for such fear of "all-mighty" destroying deflation we hear all the time?
5. What runs too fast must crash one day
6. Shattering the "Dumb Blonde" stereotype, actually prettier that the stereotype and more intelligent than 99.99% of the people who use it. Rickards is an anomaly, shows insight in economics but is obviously government stooge at the same time. Brags about being appointed to investigate insider trading associated with 9/11, but is never pressed on what he found. Why not ask him straight out, or is that just too much for the people to handle? Go ahead, ask him some of the tough questions and expose him, don't worry he won't answer.  
7. Rickards in his latest book also still thinks Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11. He is either a complete moron or elite mouthpiece. You decide...
8. I skipped the entire interview with Jim Rickards.  He's the holy preacher of economics, an economic demagogue, a snake oil salesman, etc.  He appeals to the masses of idiots out there.
9. I love it when hot chicks are smart too.  RT's got a couple of winners with Abbey and Erin. 
10. Great job Erin!
11. Rickards is very smart but RICKARDS IS OBVIOUSLY OBVIOUSLY A SHILL
12. Sorry Jim increased immigration will only help if its small and in specific areas. The mass influx into countries like the US do not help .
13. Ed hits it out of the ballpark on this episodes "Big Picture"
14. Money = people making shit up and believing it
15. Erin's intro on Japan has class. it's correct.
16. Imagine miners are crowdfunded to continue their work while temporarily NOT selling their precious metals.
    Crowdfunders will be repaid after a reasonable PM price increase.
    
    Then we should also continue buying PM products like we do en masse latelely. I love the idea of the paperbug COMEX guys seeing stripped naked: The miners are being deprived of their hard work by the paperbugs and so are the holders of the physical with their assets. Mining silver, let's say 21$/troy ounce, end product sold for 16-17, that's not sustainable and we can kill the COMEX together to end the price manipulation.
    
    #Temper Tantrum  :-)
17. Economic activity is deflating but money supply is inflating.
18. Restructuring translates to reducing socialism. Whoever reduces it the most, wins.
19. 27:42 N-word Edward N. H.? Das racis Erin.
20. Erin, I can handle the waving, pointing, and stamping open, but when you don't introduce Edward it clearly makes him depressed and you shouldn't be a bully.  trolololololo