Beat The Heat! Mortgage Purchase Applications RISE 5% From Previous Week As Homebuyers Scramble To Beat The Fed’s Monetary Tightening

by confoundedinterest17 Yes, homebuyers are jumping into a generally slowing housing market to “beat the heat.” That is, beat The Fed’s monetary tightening. Mortgage applications increased 2.0 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage …

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Anyone with a modicum of understanding knows the crisis is coming. A monetary unravelling is about to occur that going to leave nations perhaps as economically damaged as Ukraine…

by mark000 https://morningporridge.com/blog/blains-morning-porridge/central-banks-inflation-and-debt-were-in-trouble/ ………….. But monetary and fiscal interventions since 2008 have had massive consequences and created intense market distortions. They created the financial asset bubbles (that are now deflating) and have distorted the efficient allocation of capital by financial …

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Heartaches In Heartaches! US Q2 Real-time GDP Stumbles To 0.446% As Fed Continues Monetary Stimulypto (What Will Happen When The Fed Pulls The Plug??) March Pending Home Sales Decline -8.90% YoY

by confoundedinterest17 Heartaches in heartaches. US GDP growth for Q2 has stumbled to 0.446% as The Fed is launching quantitative tightening (QT) to fight the inflation that they caused in the first place. According to the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow real-time GDP tracker, …

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T-R-O-U-B-L-E! Mortgage Purchase Applications DOWN 14% From Same Week Last Year, Refi Applications DOWN 68% (Yet Fed STILL Has Its Huge Foot On Monetary Gas Pedal) This One’s Gonna Hurt You For A Long, Long Time

by confoundedinterest17 There is one song that sums up the mortgage banking industry with proposed tightening of Fed monetary stimulypto: T-R-O-U-B-L-E. Mortgage applications decreased 5.0 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage …

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The widely ignored lesson of Y2K AND 2008 is that the Fed CAN’T use monetary stimulus to bailout investors from a collapsing asset bubble CAUSED by excessive monetary stimulus. But they can accelerate it.

The widely ignored lesson of Y2K AND 2008 is that the Fed CAN'T use monetary stimulus to bailout investors from a collapsing asset bubble CAUSED by excessive monetary stimulus. But they can accelerate it. pic.twitter.com/jX1Dbdy5rq — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) April 14, …

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Fed Monetary Stimulytpo Now Almost 14 Years Old And Still Running Strong! Top 1% Share Of Net Worth Now Higher Than Bottom 50%, Income Inequality Getting Worse

by confoundedinterest17 It has been almost 14 years since The Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke unleashed zero interest rate policies (ZIRP) and quantitative easing (QE) in late 2008. And Fed monetary stimulypto is still running strong after almost 14 year of …

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Fed and ECB still behind the inflation curve. Central banks risk a pile-up of monetary policy tightening as inflation expectations become more embedded.

Fed and ECB still behind the inflation curve.Central banks risk a pile-up of monetary policy tightening as inflation expectations become more embedded.By @elerianm https://t.co/5ra5cAm2hR — Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) February 7, 2022 "Negative interest rates are hugely unpopular…Some ECB policy makers …

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Fiscal and monetary tightening globally in 2022

https://twitter.com/edwardnh/status/1478355470800859137 With the Democrats struggling to pass another stimulus bill, and the Fed beginning to “taper” their bond purchases, liquidity will reverse next year. The annual rate of change in the S&P 500 compared to our “measure of liquidity”, suggests …

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The Fed’s Monetary Policy Has Screwed Americans

By Lance Roberts  The Fed’s monetary policy has screwed Americans. Such is the basic premise of a recent Washington Times article discussing inflation. To wit: “Do you find it odd that banks and other financial institutions provide mortgage loans to millions at …

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