A deep dive into the shrinking money supply: Banks get sweetheart programs from the liquidity fairy while households are forced to take on debt and in some instances DIE while being priced out of their lives in favor of rising interest rates to fight an inflation problem the Fed created.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Let’s get to it! M2 (U.S. money stock–currency and coins held by the non-bank public, checkable deposits, and travelers’ checks, plus savings deposits, small time deposits under 100k, and shares in retail money market funds) is decreasing: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL …

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The Fed released the Economic Well-being US Households 2022. People will DIE being priced out of their lives in favor of raising interest rates to fight inflation for a problem the Fed created to begin with. Inflation isn’t just insidious, it kills!

by Dismal-Jellyfish Not even dying is without inflation 🙁 “Cost of dying” in America nears $20K The median funeral cost is $7,848, the average family spends $9,351 on legal and financial expenses. Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2022-report-economic-well-being-us-households-202305.pdf

Millennials Priced Out of Home Ownership

by Martin Armstrong Why do 20% of Millennials (25-40-year-olds) in the US believe homeownership is completely unobtainable? To start, rentals across the US are on the rise. The Fair Market Rents (FMRs) compile data every year to determine the cost of the 40th percentile …

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There is a lot of risk lurking with NONE of it priced in…

Evergrande is coming — Chuck Archist (@anarchopia) September 7, 2021 Seems important… pic.twitter.com/paO5b7VNLA — . (@WallStCynic) September 6, 2021 The peak is in! More -> https://t.co/aFzIQida0E pic.twitter.com/qU8aR1KHCM — Andreas Steno Larsen (@AndreasSteno) September 7, 2021 Buying really expensive stocks has …

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The Business Cycle Recovery Is Priced In

by UPFINA The business cycle is in its early innings of improvement. That sounds odd to people who follow the stock market more than the economy because stocks have been ramping since March 2020. The stock market once again correctly …

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