The Fed Put? What And Where Is It

By Lance Roberts  The “Fed put?” Exactly, what is it, and where does this mythical support reside? It isn’t surprising with the rough start to 2022, investors are hoping the Fed will look to stabilize financial markets. Of course, after more than …

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Case-Shiller National Home Price Index Still HOT In December +18.84% YoY As Active Inventories Die (Phoenix AZ Fastest Growing At 32.5% YoY While Washington DC Is Slowest Growing At 10.5% YoY)

by confoundedinterest17 The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National home price index remained HOT in December, growing at a 18.84% pace. M2 Money YoY is still smoking at 13.11%. All 20 metro areas in the Case-Shiller 20 index grew at 10% or …

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Here comes $7 gas prices….Russian/Ukrainian crisis will fuel more inflation… and cause deep recession? Tightening is doomed to end prematurely?

https://twitter.com/MFHoz/status/1496128050379042823 The cost of Russia's aggression in Ukraine will be deep recession, with financial conditions tightening sharply via interest rates, the stock market & CDS (white). Very little spillover to CEEMEA, including Turkey (orange) & South Africa (yellow). But contagion …

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Inflation Gauge Is Heading Higher

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his colleagues in the coming week can expect to see their key inflation metric accelerate to a fresh four-decade high last seen when Paul Volcker led the U.S. central bank. The personal consumption expenditures …

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Bill Bans CCP Families From College

Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) introduced a bill on Feb. 16 that would bar high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials and their family members from studying in the U.S. colleges, a move she said woulld combat the regime’s efforts to “undermine” …

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