BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: FRED is a giant online database at the St. Louis Fed that allows anyone to graph the financial and economic data stored in its repositories. We use the data regularly to bring our readers…

…We can’t rule out the possibility that, at some point in the next few years, our economy will slow, perhaps significantly. How would the Federal Reserve respond? What tools remain in the monetary toolbox? By Ben Bernanke First steps for easing…

Thanks to a melt-up today, US equities (apart from Trannies) ended the week higher… But today’s gains were farcically driven by a full-court press of jawboning (5 Fed Speakers, Mnuchin, and Kudlow) to open the US equity markets… 0830ET Jobs Beat –…