On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that part of the problem with drugs and homelessness in various major cities is a policy approach that “Nothing is better than anything else” and that “everything is positive. …
The Fed has to decide between two policy mistakes says Mohamed El-Erian of Queens' College Cambridge https://t.co/JjJqhdMyQU pic.twitter.com/A2i2Dg2rCs — BSurveillance (@bsurveillance) May 27, 2022 Peak Fed Funds pricing was Sept 23 @ ~3.4% Now it's a tie between March & …
The #euro spikes as #ECB Governing Council member #Knot suggests a 50 basis point hike is on the table if #inflation worsens. A policy mistake is looming larger on the horizon. Momentum for a rate hike is building, but so …
by squaremild When governments build themselves hammers don’t be surprised to find they start seeing the people as nails. More news of the slow, boring trudge to global tyranny. https://nimc.gov.ng/nin-sim-linkage-fg-commends-compliance-and-directs-telcos-to-bar-outgoing-calls-on-unlinked-lines-from-4th-april-2022/
One troll asked if I am massively long t-bonds given my deflation stance. NO. Balanced funds are getting smoked and the pain is only beginning. You can't be long ANYTHING until the Fed reverses policy and re-starts QE. We are …
by Frank Shostak via Mises At the end of March this year the difference between the yield on the ten-year Treasury bond and the yield on the two-year Treasury bond fell to 0.010 percent from 1.582 percent at the end of March 2021. …
by confoundedinterest17 Can The Federal Reserve ACTUALLY tighten monetary policy? Let’s look at the facts. Under Biden, we have seen inflation rise from 1.4% to 7.9% (the latest inflation numbers will be out Monday). And we have seen Treasury public debt …
A joke in 1978 is fiscal policy today pic.twitter.com/WALIgGpHH1 — America's Nomad Nero Festive Edition (@Adventure_Nero) April 3, 2022 h/t Jim Quinn
From The Carson Report: Policymakers are trying to achieve a benign economic outcome, a soft landing similar to 1995. But unfortunately, history shows that soft landings are rare. Since 1960, there have been three soft landings but nine recessions. Soft …
by Chris Black “You can’t use the state to boost your currency! You can’t tell billionaires what to do! That’s interfering in the market! Breaking the rules!” Then how are they doing it? A real science is informed by practical …
by confoundedinterest17 As of today, Jerome “Nero” Powell and The Gang at The Federal Reserve have not trimmed the Fed’s balance sheet and have only raised their target rate once under President Biden. Here is the Hindenburg Omen, named for the …
It won't be very much longer before the #Fed pivots back to #dovish on #policy. Eventually, #financial #instability will take over #inflation as a concern. h/t @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/CDn57IeTJA — Lance Roberts (@LanceRoberts) March 29, 2022 Three 50bps #Fed #rate hikes …
Rosenberg Research, Released on 3/23/22 The Fed is tightening policy with the yield curve flat, the expansion 80% over with, and into a cost-push inflationary environment that resembles what Paul Volcker had to deal with in the late 1970s and …
by confoundedinterest17 The Federal Reserve is not mentioned in the movies “The Big Short” or “Margin Call”, but The Fed’s policy errors played a big role in the demise of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s equity prices. Here is a chart …
by Michael Snyder The U.S. has had some women in positions of power that have done good jobs, and the U.S. has had some women in positions of power that haven’t done so well. Today, I want to look at …
.@NYCMayor said he wants all kids to be able to remove their masks in schools, but stressed that the city cannot be "reckless." https://t.co/bGBooGPQbb — Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) March 7, 2022
“Most controversial” policy? I doubt it. Powell and others in Fed personally TRADING on the policy of backstopping the junk bond market is way more controversial. https://t.co/LDH1BTiGIl — Samantha LaDuc (@SamanthaLaDuc) February 21, 2022
by confoundedinterest17 Another effect of The Federal Reserve’s reckless monetary policy coupled with Biden/Congress reckless spending is bad foreign policy. The US is exporting inflation around the globe. US export price YoY is at 15.1%. The US is importing less …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Addiction is deadly, and no amount of artifice can obscure that this monetary addiction and collapse is the result of one Pusher: the Federal Reserve. To talk about the Federal Reserve raising rates and reducing “easing” as …
by Jason Burack of Wall St For Main St Are we headed towards another energy crisis in the US? No new oil refineries allowed to be built in the US since the 1970s, and oil pipelines and drilling permits are blocked to stop …
by Shaun Richards This morning there must be some disappointment and maybe a little confusion at the Bank of England. Having voted last night and after all the hints presumably voted to increase Bank Rate by 0.25% to 0.5% or …
European markets are awash with hawkish enthusiasm, as traders bet on the fastest pace of policy tightening in more than a decade from the BOE and ECB ahead of their rate decisions on Thursday https://t.co/H9PlW6mzvw — Bloomberg Markets (@markets) January …
#China cut another policy rate for first time in nearly two years, 10-year govt #bond yield hit lowest since May 2020 https://t.co/DYg9krsWrT — YUAN TALKS (@YuanTalks) January 24, 2022
Biden’s new policy of directing a domestic terrorism unit to target those who have an “anti-authority” or “anti-government” attitude exposes their anti-liberty/anti-democracy mindset. We must all stand up against this, regardless of our political party. https://t.co/Ij0Cx4q22V pic.twitter.com/752sDNAY54 — Tulsi Gabbard …
China’s economy grew 8.1% in 2021 compared to a year ago Analysts polled by Reuters expected China to report fourth-quarter GDP growth of 3.6% from a year ago, slower than the 4.9% expansion reported in the third quarter. However, retail …
YouTube/PeterSchiff, Released on 1/12/22 Official CPI is at its worst in 39 years. Real CPI is at its worst in history. Investors beginning to realize that the Fed is too little too late. Elizabeth Warren wants the Fed to blame …
Sea change at hand? Share of global central banks with policy rates < 1% has rolled over and is falling @BIS_org @TS_Lombard pic.twitter.com/JovdLCPik0 — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) January 13, 2022 Negative real rates support positive returns for stocks. pic.twitter.com/9hyYHOaSOf …
It’s free real estate! Walgreens in Madison, WI is the latest store to suffer from these “progressive” policies.
