The #market is calling the #Feds bluff. If #bond spreads begin to blow out, the Fed will be back in the #QE game. @RealInvAdvice @michaellebowitz @soberlook pic.twitter.com/ZhcKbJWUyk — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) January 25, 2022
By Graham Summers, MBA The bond market is calling the Fed’s bluff. The single most important bond in the world is the 10-Year U.S. Treasury. The yield on this bond serves as the “risk free” rate of return for the …
via Pat Buchanan China started and finished the recent war in the Himalayas with India. It warned Hong Kong to stifle the democracy protests that went violent in 2019. When Hong Kong failed to do so, Beijing acted and is now …
by The Phoenix The biggest development last week was the breakout in the 10-year U.S. Treasury. The 10-year US Treasury is arguably the single most important bond in the world. The yield on this bond represents the risk-free rate of return against which …
by The Phoenix Yesterday I outlined how the Fed is extremely late to curb inflation. As a brief recap, it only took CPI clearing 5%, multiple signals that inflation is running hot, housing entering a bubble, stocks roaring to new all-time highs, …
by The Phoenix So the Fed finally moved… but what precisely did it do? After a full year of the most extreme monetary policy in history, including… Over 12 months of ZERO interest rate policy despite the economy growing. Over $3 …
https://www.barrons.com/articles/stock-market-hawkish-fed-51624052659 The Federal Open Market Committee’s latest policy communications raised more questions than answers. Perhaps the biggest one: Can the Fed ever really raise interest rates? At face value, and with a big dose of relativity, this past week’s …
https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1371794139600334854 Retail sales fell in February, but economists expect improvement in coming months as vaccines become more widely available https://t.co/84Bp5gXgBK — Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) March 16, 2021 There is no inflation Call Jerome Powell to print more stimulus checks …
UKRAINE CALLS UP RESERVES AMID TENSIONS WITH RUSSIA: Here’s part of a report from the Associated Press. Ukraine’s president on Monday announced a partial call-up of reservists for training amid tensions with Russia, saying the country needs to beef up …
by John Rubino When Italy elected a bunch of rowdy populists back in March, the rest of the eurozone assumed (or at least hoped) that the sudden weight of responsibility would bring Rome back into line. But so far the …