As Fed And Treasury Spend $1.2BN Every Hour Biden Says Inflation Is “Temporary”, Respects Fed “Independence”

There was a remarkable statistic in the latest Flow Show report from BofA’s Michael Hartnett: according to the CIO’s calculations, “the Fed is  spending $336 million every 60 minutes buying bonds, while the US federal government is spending $875 million every hour this year”, a staggering amount made possible only by the recent merger between the Fed and … Read more

Transgender Biological Male Cleared To Compete In Women’s Weightlifting In Tokyo Olympics

View post on imgur.com 43 year old Laurel Hubbard’s inclusion “does not violate the current rules on the books,” the committee ruled, according to the New York Post. She would be the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Games, despite the fact that transgender athletes have been allowed to compete in the Olympics … Read more

Chinese National Sentenced To Federal Prison For Fraudulent Scheme To Export U.S. Military Secrets…

A Chinese national and two co-defendants have been sentenced in connection with an attempt to use false export information to export maritime raiding craft and military-model engines through fraud to China, and in violation of Unites States law. Ge Songtao, a 51-year-old from Nanjing, China, pleaded guilty to the charges on November 2, 2020, and was … Read more

Charts For A Crazy World: Did Investors Just Realize Their Problems Are Unfixable?

BY JOHN RUBINO Short-term interest rates are now as negative as they were in the inflationary 1970s. But that’s where the similarity ends. As the above chart shows, 1970s indebtedness was relatively modest as a percentage of GDP, which gave that financial system the resiliency to withstand the double-digit interest rates necessary to throttle inflation and … Read more

Mohamed El-Erian – Stagflation is the biggest worry… Yellen is quite concerned… DOW -900 latest updates…

Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Goods and Services Inflation can be considered a tax, an especially regressive one, falling harder on those with lower income and/or assets. Yellen is quite concerned about hotter inflation and housing market The U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen is now also concerned about hotter inflation and the housing market. On … Read more

Trump Is ‘Mad As Hell’ — Goes All In

Former President Donald Trump is poised to go “all in” to help Republicans recapture the House and Senate during the 2022 midterms and the White House again in 2024, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. Graham, who told Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro Saturday evening that he just finished two days’ worth of playing … Read more

Knowledge Vs. Experience: Why Most Investors Wind Up Losing

by Lance Roberts Knowledge vs. experience. When it comes to investing, such is what separates long-term success from failure. Amid a “market mania,” retail investors believe they have “knowledge” as every investment they make seems to be successful. As the bubble inflates, continued success breeds over-confidence to the point where it is widely believed “this time is different.” I previously discussed … Read more

Trump & Tax Evasion

by Martin Armstrong The latest is that Trump could be criminally charged for tax evasion by paying for some benefit to an employee rather than salary. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was looking at taxing frequent flyer bonus points as income to an employee when the company pays for the flight, but the employee uses the bonus point … Read more