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By David Stockman And yet, Industrial Production as a whole, the headline index, fell by more than 1% year-over-year in October. Not only is that a rare negative for … Read more
via Zerohedge: Cooling rents in formerly hot real estate markets like New York City and Boston might give the Federal Reserve the excuse it needs to keep rates low and … Read more
by Dunagun Kaiser with Alasdair Macleod via Reluctant Preppers Alasdair Macleod, Head of Research at GoldMoney returns to Finance & Liberty to declare that THE FED IS STUCK ACCELERATING MONETARY INFLATION, due to an ACUTE … Read more
by Econimica Chart below shows the Federal Reserve holdings of Treasuries, a weekly change (black columns) and total holdings (red line) during QE1, QE2, Operation Twist, QE3, QT, and “Not QE”. … Read more
by Chris First, my views are constantly shifting. I never see the future as a given, but rather as a set of probabilities that have yet to solidify. As time … Read more
by UPFINA The September PCE report was very good because yearly real consumer spending growth improved, real income growth improved, and the core inflation rate fell. The consumer was a big … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Cleveland Fed’s Underlying Inflation Measure Hits 3.0%, Hottest in the Data. “Soft inflation?” The inflation measure by the Cleveland Fed — the “Median CPI,” which is … Read more
From Birch Gold Group Social Security recipients are on track for a cost of living adjustment (COLA) this year of a mere 1.6-1.7%. That’s according to Sean Williams at The Motley Fool, … Read more
PARTY LIKE IT’S 1979: How Democrats can raise taxes without technically raising taxes. Short version: Eliminate indexing tax rates to inflation. The argument in favor of indexing is that it eliminates … Read more
This is huge. 30-year yield vs. core CPI at its lowest level since 1980s! 10-year real yield?Same. Plunging as they did in mid & late 70s! LT yields near record … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter What would the Fed do if economic factors were all it looked at? Inflation as measured by the “core” Consumer Price Index, which removes the volatile … Read more
Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter says a failure to deliver is not a maybe but a sure thing. Holter says, “Whether it is this year or the … Read more
No matter where you look, the desire for the Fed to print, Print, PRINT, is intense! The president wants it, the Socialists want it, debtors want it…The consequences of this madness are … Read more
By David Stockman How The BLS Disappears Inflation, 2000-2019 Market-based rent of primary residence (7.9% weight in CPI)……….3.15%/Year BLS manufactured fiction called OER (24.6% weight in CPI)………..2.65%/Year
