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The Fed bought up $2.7 trillion in toxic waste mortgage backed securities to reinflate the housing bubble and take those bad loans off the books of its Wall Street bankster accomplices. Next up: Powell will let the banksters transfer their non-performing commercial real estate loans to the Fed.

May 29, 2023 8:31 amMay 27, 2023 10:15 pm

by Simian_Stacker This level of blatant corruption and global usury is frankly biblical in how unprecedented it all is. FED'S WALLER: I HOPE THE FED NEVER GETS BACK INTO BUSINESS OF BUYING MBS. — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) May 24, 2023 $247M …

Powell on Bank Acquisitions

May 9, 2023 3:35 pm

by Martin Armstrong After the FOMC decision, Jerome Powell stated during his Q&A that the Federal Reserve does not have a plan to consolidate banks. “I personally felt that having small, medium, and large were a great part of our …

Powell clarifies his remarks

May 4, 2023 3:55 pm

I knew it! "Jerome Powell clarifies comments made during FOMC"pic.twitter.com/lXMwj1Hamu — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) May 4, 2023

THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Jerome Powell is the latest victim of Russian pranks.

April 28, 2023 8:51 pm

Jerome Powell, the Federal Reserve chair, was deceived by pranksters posing as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in a video call in January. The pranksters, identified as Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, are known supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The …

Fed Funds Futures are Calling BS on powell

March 23, 2023 1:24 pm

by Guysmarket So you might be asking, well why is it .25 and not .365. Well that’s because the fed doesn’t raise in that increment so we take whatever is closer. .25 is closer to .365 than .5 Also …

Silicon Valley bank collapse was an “outlier”? Powell is ignoring all of the dominoes falling, exactly as the Fed did in September 2008 when Lehman failed

March 24, 2023 5:35 pmMarch 23, 2023 1:15 pm

by BoatSurfer600 We are seeing a contagious bank run and pledging to protect small banks by not protecting uninsured deposits which is half the deposit base Bulls are going to find out what it’s like to go through a financial …

Powell is doing exactly what the top 10% want, protecting their wealth at the cost of the bottom 90%

March 7, 2023 4:36 pm

If we're heading for a prolonged period of low economic growth, the wealthy want rates as high as possible so they can lock in their capital beforehand. Powell is doing exactly what the top 10% want, protecting their wealth at …

Powell Testimony – Prepared Remarks TLDR “Higher than expected interest rates”. 1 mention of disinflation

March 7, 2023 4:32 pm

by danielhanchen https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/powell20230307a.htm Main takeaways: Disinflationary trends have partially reversed in the recent months. PCE Core services ex housing shows no disinflation at all. Rents will show disinflation in the following months. Stronger than expected economic data most likely will …

Fed Chair Powell Says “Long Way to Go” in Inflation Fight, Calls U.S. Debt “Unsustainable”

February 8, 2023 8:29 am

The United States is watching disinflation travel through the national economy, but “it has a long way to go” before price stability is achieved, says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Speaking at the Economic Club of Washington on Tuesday, the …

The Great Biden/Pelosi/Schumer Powell (4 Horsemen) Inflation Tax In One Chart (Personal Savings DOWN -64.8%, Consumer Credit UP, Real Weekly Earnings Growth NEGATIVE For 21 Straight Weeks)

January 22, 2023 9:51 pmJanuary 21, 2023 3:33 pm

by confoundedinterest17 I must admit, Joe Biden has a horribly misleading nickname “Middle Class Joe.” Between Biden’s horrible energy policies and Pelosi’s/Schumer’s spending binges, the US middle class and low wage workers have suffered mightely with the inflation tax. Throw …

Everything to Fall but the DXY or Powell will use Force

December 22, 2022 7:04 pm

by David Brady via Sprott Money We had the last FOMC meeting today, and the Fed raised rates another 50bp to 4.25-4.50%. This was already priced and was therefore a non-event. The accompanying statement was a surprise given the degree of hawkishness. It …

The Fed’s Powell Admits “I Don’t Know What We’ll Do” In 2023

December 20, 2022 8:34 pm

by Ryan McMaken of Mises Institute The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday announced it will raise the target federal funds rate by 50 basis points, bringing the target rate to 4.5 percent. Wednesday’s rate hike followed four hikes in …

It’s Much Worse than Powell Wants to Admit (And the Market Knows It)

December 2, 2022 7:16 am

Economy Is at Mercy of Powell & Yellen

November 22, 2022 9:56 pm

While Americans struggle to pay their bills amid soaring inflation, the institutions we rely on to wrestle the economy back to stability are engaged in a secret power struggle which only worsens the impending crisis. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and …

Powell Drops Bombshells, Pulls The Hope Out From Under The Market

November 8, 2022 4:12 pm

by Peter Schiff of Peter Schiff Podcast · Federal Reserve raises interest rates again as expected. · Markets spooked as Jerome Powell dropped bombshells in Fed meeting. · Biden administration gets fact checked and deletes tweet. · Weakness in the stock market will …

Powell Admits The Fed Is Failing On Inflation, And Promises More Rate Hikes

November 3, 2022 11:03 pm

by Ryan McMaken of Mises Institute The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised the target federal funds rate 75 basis points on Wednesday, marking the fourth 75-basis-point hike in a row since June. The federal funds rate is now the highest …

FED chair Jerome Powell said “…it is very premature to think about or talk about pausing rate hikes…we have a long way to go…”

November 3, 2022 12:53 pm

Fed chair Jerome Powell said “…it is very premature to think about or talk about pausing rate hikes…we have a long way to go…we need on going rate hikes to get to the level of sufficiently restrictive…we don’t really know …

Powell Feinted Full Dovetard, and Stocks Still Plummeted. Why?

November 2, 2022 9:54 pm

by David Haggith I’m going to write today’s article with all the vicissitudes I experienced as I read Powell’s statements about the Fed’s predicted moves and watched the market’s responses as they played out. My first thought, as I read the headline about Powell …

Powell Rugged the Markets Today, Why Tho’?

November 3, 2022 8:06 amNovember 2, 2022 7:50 pm

by Chris Black Where’s muh Midterms Rally? Where’s muh FED Pivot? https://twitter.com/ADAMBERGMANshow/status/1563177450992832517 What’s going on here? They are simply trying to time the break. The USD is toast when the petro dollar breaks. And that has been the plan. Brainard …

Powell: No sense that inflation is coming down… The White House deleted this tweet after taking credit for 8% annualized inflation.

November 3, 2022 10:27 amNovember 2, 2022 6:12 pm

POWELL: NO SENSE THAT INFLATION IS COMING DOWN — *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) November 2, 2022 The White House deleted this tweet after taking credit for 8% annualized inflation. Luckily screen shots are forever. White House is forced to DELETE fact-checked …

This quarter the magnitude of down revisions is way higher than normal… Powell: Window for soft landing has narrowed

November 3, 2022 8:12 amNovember 2, 2022 5:38 pm

While it's not uncommon for companies to lower the estimates for the next quarter around the earnings season, this quarter the magnitude of down revisions is way higher than normal. Another reason why this is a BMR, rather than a …

If Powell tightens into a crisis, he can then pivot & safely (for him) do what central banks have always done. And most mkt participants will beg him to do it. If he pivots before a crisis & inflation accelerates, he (and Fed) are done. And he knows it.

October 27, 2022 1:13 pm

If Powell tightens into a crisis, he can then pivot & safely (for him) do what central banks have always done. And most mkt participants will beg him to do it. If he pivots before a crisis & inflation accelerates, …

Powell Faces Wrath of Biblical Proportions

September 27, 2022 10:49 pm

Guest Post by MN Gordon from his blog on economicprism.com: “The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.” – 1 Samuel 2:7 Holy Roll An enterprising entrepreneur did a comedic graphic of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell captioned: …

Is Powell Bent on Wrecking the Economy?

September 26, 2022 7:34 pm

by: Stefan Gleason Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell has taken a turn to the dark side. After years of pleasing everyone on Wall Street and in Washington, D.C. with ultra-loose monetary policy, Powell has, for now, decided to recast himself …

This is what Powell fears most of all

September 19, 2022 3:49 pm

This is what Powell fears most of all. You. Having leverage. To demand higher wages. He is not your friend. Nor your champion. https://t.co/s0xZZQj105 — Daddy Electric؜؜؜؜؜؜🐀 (@mortentor) September 19, 2022 Larry Summers urges the Fed to keep raising rates …

Powell’s ‘Pain’ Warning Foreshadowing a Crash Ahead?

September 11, 2022 10:40 pm

Craig Hemke with Patrick V. on Silver Bullion TV SBTV spoke with Craig Hemke, founder of TF Metals Report, about the latest Powell warning of ‘pain’ as the Fed tries to tamp down multi-decade high inflation. Is the Fed beginning to manage expectations knowing …

Markets Are Betting on a Pivot from Powell Before Midterms, But It Doesn’t Really Matter

September 9, 2022 10:34 pmSeptember 8, 2022 7:41 pm

by Chris Black If Powell pivots markets go up. If Powell doesn’t pivot market goes up on a gamma squeeze. Thanks for playing. After Yesterday's Melt-Up, Nomura Warns "Kindling For A Squeeze" Remains From "Absolutely Biblical" Negative Delta Surge https://t.co/QO2g0qpKMB …

No Powell Pivot, so the Bear is Back!

August 29, 2022 11:05 am

by David Haggith Bear-market rallies are always built on delusions. A breath of hope returns to the dying bulls, and all the testosterone and adrenaline rushes to their veins. There is typically no rationality to it. It is pure sentiment, so …

Hawkish Powell keeps 0.75% hike option open for september

August 27, 2022 8:34 am

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/25/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html Here the most important remarks Powell just made at Jackson Hole. Hope this helps. In his speech Powell mentioned that 75 basis points remains an option for the FOMC september meeting. This is higher than the anticipated 50 bps. Overall …

Fed Chair Powell: “It is true that the current high inflation is a global phenomenon.”

August 26, 2022 10:21 am

"It is true that the current high inflation is a global phenomenon." Fed Chair Powell says that the Fed's responsibility to achieve price stability is still the priority, despite high inflation https://t.co/8BvKSiXonH pic.twitter.com/0zBsnh1pO2 — Bloomberg Markets (@markets) August 26, 2022