Bidenville! Case-Shiller 20 Metro Home Price Index Growth Goes Negative (-1.15% YoY In March, Seattle Down -12.43% YoY, SF Down -11.22%) While Commercial RE Price Growth Went Negative Too

by confoundedinterest17 Resident Biden and Congress unleashed inflation of the unsuspecting American middle class. Now real estate is starting to feel the pain of Fed monetary tightening. For March, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller 20 metro home price index actually fell …

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The purchasing power of the dollar continues to VANISH! In April, the purchasing power of $100 in January 2000 is $55.70 (down $.20 from March).

by Dismal-Jellyfish Remember, CPI tracks the loss of the purchasing power of your dollars, and thereby the purchasing power of your hard earned labor. Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SA0R Let’s zoom in on this since 2020: CPI tracks the loss of the purchasing …

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The Core! US March Core PCE Prices Remain HOT At 4.6% YoY Despite Fed Crashing M2 Money Growth, March Personal Spending Slows To 0% MoM (Taylor Rule Suggests 10.27% Target Rate)

by confoundedinterest17 March’s Personal Consumption Expenditures Core Prices remain HOT despite The Fed crashing M2 Money growth. PCE Core price growth remained elevated at 4.6%. Personal spending in March slowed to 0% growth. The Taylor Rule infers a Fed Funds …

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Inflation Alert! March SCE Labor Market Survey: The average full-time offer wage received in the past four months increased to $62,088 from $59,834 in November 2022. The average reservation wage—the lowest wage respondents would be willing to accept for a new job—rose to a new series high of $75,811

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/sce/labor#/ The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Center for Microeconomic Data today released the March 2023 SCE Labor Market Survey. The SCE Labor Market Survey, fielded as part of the Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) since March 2014, provides information on …

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US Core Inflation Rises To 5.6% In March Keeping Rate Hikes On Table, Shelter CPI UP 8.2% YoY, Food UP 8.5% YoY (Taylor Rule Suggests 11.77% Fed Funds Rate)

by confoundedinterest17 US Core inflation keeps rising despite The Federal Reserve slowing M2 Money growth and raising The Fed Funds Targget rate as The Fed plays catch up from Janet Yellen’s “Too Low For Too Long” monetary policies under Obama. And she …

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Bear Stearns failed in March 2008. It wasn’t until September that Lehman Brothers and AIG failed, marking a full-blown crisis. This may feel like a train wreck in slow motion.

by dbc13543 Back in 2008 the first massive sign of distress appeared in mid-March with the fall of Bear Stearns. While many other dominoes fell in 2008 after the failure of Bear Stearns, there wasn’t a full-blown crash and crisis …

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The reserve ratio for banks was reduced to 0% on March 15, 2020.

by Settlemente Here is the link to the announcement of the reserve ratio for banks being reduced to 0%. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm#:~:text=As%20announced%20on%20March%2015,requirements%20for%20all%20depository%20institutions. The FDIC insures up to $250,000 worth of deposits (per person, per bank). The Dodd Frank act included requirements for …

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