US July Inflation Remains Hot (CPI At 8.5% YoY) While Real Weekly Wage Growth Remains Burned (-3.6% YoY) Mortgage Refi Apps Down -82% YoY While Mortgage Purchase Apps Down -19% YoY)

by confoundedinterest17 The US July inflation report remains hot, hot, hot! While mortgage purchase and refinancing applications are not, not, not. The US consumer price index rose 8.5% in July. And real average weekly growth remains burned by horrid inflation, at -3.6% YoY. …

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‘Sizzling’ US Jobs Data (+528k) Make Case for Bigger Fed Rate Increases (Real Avg Hourly Earnings Growth Sinks To -3.8173 And US Treasury Yield Curve Inverts Further To -37.6, Most Inverted Since 2000)

by confoundedinterest17 The media is thrilled with today’s jobs report showing a sizzling 528k jobs added to the US economy. And with that, the media is cheering that recession fears are shrinking. But hold on a second. First, while 528k jobs …

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US CEO confidence and profits growth collapsed, U.S. tech sector sees highest job cuts in May since Dec. 2020… Black Swan Investor: ‘Greatest Credit Bubble’ to Pop

US CEO confidence vs. profits growth 👇 Draw your own conclusions. Chart @IanRHarnett pic.twitter.com/fgMFXJDgQ0 — Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) June 6, 2022 U.S. tech sector sees highest job cuts in May since Dec. 2020. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) June 6, 2022 …

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China’s Premier Li Gives Dire Growth Warning

GDP growth risks sliding out of reasonable range, premier says Positive growth must be ensured in 2Q, jobless rate must drop https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26/china-s-premier-gives-dire-growth-warning-in-unpublished-remarks?srnd=premium-asia ESG more important than China 🇨🇳 housing with #Copper pic.twitter.com/1qcdSGbGOW — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) May 27, 2022

Everything is fine, guys. We definitely don’t have $30T in debt, $9T on the Fed balance sheet, QT @ $85B/month, negative growth, red hot inflation, and historically low interest rates

by pa_p3rry https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1528707314395631621 Its the Everything bubble of the century! This selloff is twice as fast as 2008. It took 9 months and -15% to reach the Lehman Moment. Currently the market is down -20% in 4.5 months. I say …

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The Tech bubble is DOOMED. It’s collapsing for the same reason it collapsed in Y2K – slowing growth AND a Fed eager to make up for lost time.

by BoatSurfer600 So why does EVERYTHING feel like it's about meltdown? Piper Sandler chart pretty much explains it. Financial conditions were tightened gigantically and quickly by the financial mkts themselves. Liquidity destroyed in unprecedented fashion. Severe economic slowdown coming. pic.twitter.com/MVqhP2Ed3D …

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The Biden Inflation Scorecard! House Price Growth UP 69%, Food UP 58%, Gasoline UP 72%, Diesel Fuel UP 154%, Fed Bal Sheet UP 21% (Mortgage Rates UP 83.3%)

by confoundedinterest17 Under President Biden’s Reign of Error, inflation is the highest in 40 years. But Powell and The Fed are still overstimulating the economy, and Congress is contributing to the inflation disaster with short-sighted political policies and spending (flooding …

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