-$167.2 billion! From March 2023 to April 2023, 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) DECREASED by $167.2 billion.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Money Stock Measures – H.6 Release https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/current/default.htm M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, …

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Fed’s Economic Well-being US Household 2022: “fewer adults reported having money left over after paying their expenses. 54% of adults said that their budgets had been affected “a lot” by price increases.” “51% of adults reported that they reduced their savings in response to higher prices.”

by Dismal-Jellyfish ​ https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2022-report-economic-well-being-us-households-202305.pdf The Federal Reserve Board on Monday issued its Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2022 report, which examines the financial lives of U.S. adults and their families. The report draws from the Board’s tenth annual Survey of Household …

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Canadian Deputy PM wants to take your savings

https://twitter.com/_SDParker/status/1658472461783158786 “some Canadian households, and it tends to be the better off households, do have quite a lot of that they saved because there hasn’t been that much due in the pandemic and certainly it would be great if that …

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US Real GDP Growth Forecast To Be Dismal 0.50% In 2023, Personal Savings Rate -67.9% YoY In October, US Mortgage Rates Headed Down (Economic Lights On But Nobody’s Home)

by confoundedinterest17 Albert Collins said it best about the US economy under Joe Biden: “Lights Are On But Nobody’s Home”. The Federal Reserve forecast for the US economy is a dismal 0.50% YoY. Do I detect a trend? The FOMC forecast for …

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Tapped Out Debt Donkeys Burning Through Savings While Running Up Credit Cards As The Fed Destroys The Purchasing Power Of Their Wages. This Won’t End Well

by Boo_Randy Relentless climb in yields. pic.twitter.com/bVIgIQB8e0 — Brian G ☀️ (@alphacharts) September 14, 2022 Uh Oh … Inventory data and mortgage rates are suggesting a serious drop in the housing market Is Fed going to raise rates next week …

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Recession 2022: Inflation Is Hitting The Average Joe Very, Very Bad. Personal Savings In The US Evaporating. Half Of All Us Companies Plan To Implement Job Cuts. Mortgage Lenders Are Starting To Go Broke…

Inflation is hitting the average Joe very, very bad. pic.twitter.com/x4LcD9v6Pw — Alf (@MacroAlf) August 20, 2022 Personal savings in the US evaporating. 3.9 trillion a year ago to just 968bn now. pic.twitter.com/Cebqj5OrYh — Don Johnson (@DonMiami3) August 20, 2022 Half …

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Household savings rate vanishes…

The United States consumption figure seems robust. An 0.9 percent rise in personal spending in April looks good on paper, especially considering the challenges that the economy faces. This apparently strong figure is supporting an average consensus estimate for the second-quarter …

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