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‘Debt ceiling increase = inflation increase = Federal Reserve Interest rate hikes = higher mortgage & car loan costs = higher food/gas prices = decrease in wage value… It’s all connected. If Gov’t spending isn’t cut, your family’s spending will be’

May 25, 2023 7:05 pm

Listen up pic.twitter.com/BrgWo4fCWX — Brandie with a 🐝 (@BrandieWithABee) May 25, 2023 Government spending is up 55% since 2019 and we have 1% GDP growth. pic.twitter.com/PEZ59Codee — Dan Collins (@DanCollins2011) May 24, 2023 https://twitter.com/bagholdingbear/status/1661434652303785994 CNN fact checks far-left Democrat Rep. …

Electric cars lose value TWICE as fast as gas vehicles, study finds

May 9, 2023 9:29 am

by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) Contrary to the claims of left-wing media programming, electric vehicles (EVs) are not worth the money, especially compared to gas-powered cars that hold their value at twice the rate. Put another way, EVs depreciate in value at twice …

Bitcoin soars to ten-month high The top cryptocurrency has nearly doubled in value this year

April 11, 2023 1:13 pm

Bitcoin has moved above $30,000 for the first time since June, as investors grow more optimistic about US Federal Reserve monetary policy ahead of key inflation data later in the week. The top crypto by market capitalization peaked at $30,438 …

Gold Standard Bill To Stabilize Dollar’s Value Introduced

April 6, 2023 7:07 am

Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., joined by Reps. Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar, both Arizona Republicans, introduced H.R. 2435, the Gold Standard Restoration Act, to facilitate the repegging of the volatile Federal Reserve note to a fixed weight of gold bullion. …

Total Value Locked in Crypto Explained

April 6, 2023 8:54 amApril 6, 2023 6:00 am

DeFi is short for decentralized financial applications. These are applications that allow users to interact with blockchain-based platforms in a way that enables them to transact value and data in a transparent, trustless manner. With the help of smart contracts, …

FDIC Alert! $114 billion in face value Agency Mortgage Backed Securities, Collateralized Mortgage Obligations, and Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities about to be liquidated ‘gradual and orderly’ with the ‘aim to minimize the potential for any adverse impact on market functioning’ by BlackRock.

April 5, 2023 9:59 pm

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/2023/pr23029.html The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver of the former Signature Bank, New York, NY, and Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara, CA, will undertake a marketing process to sell the securities portfolios retained from the two receiverships. …

Three Congressmen Introduce Gold Standard Bill to Stabilize the Dollar’s Value

April 4, 2023 6:15 pm

by Money Metals News Service Washington, DC – As America faces the twin threats of inflation and bank failures, three U.S. congressman introduced a pivotal sound money bill that would enable the Federal Reserve note “dollar” to regain stable footing for the …

Best Software For Estimating Entities Value and Maximizing Possible Returns of the Deal

February 16, 2023 4:45 pmFebruary 16, 2023 6:45 am

A typical transaction involves many global parties accessing personal data from multiple locations and significant time constraints for all parties. M&A advisers make the deal happen, enable the parties’ agreement, and close the transaction. There is no such thing as …

Elon Musk blames Tesla’s $600 billion plunge in market value this year on the Fed – as rising interest rates erode the appeal of stocks

December 22, 2022 12:01 pm

Elon Musk has blamed the massive drop in Tesla stock this year on the Federal Reserve, arguing the US central bank’s interest-rate hikes have made the stock market less appealing to investors. “Tesla is executing better than ever!” Musk tweeted …

Media groups shed $500 billion in value as shares head for historic drop

December 21, 2022 9:11 pmDecember 21, 2022 9:55 am

via worldnewsera: More than $500bn has been wiped off the market value of the world’s biggest media companies this year as investors soured on the streaming revolution, triggering historic share price declines for broadcasting and entertainment groups. Intensifying competition and rising …

Since last September, 75% of Meta’s market value has been wiped out, bringing it down to 2015 levels. This represents a loss of $104 billion for Mark Zuckerberg’s personal net worth

October 29, 2022 2:04 pmOctober 28, 2022 10:42 pm

Zuckerberg has really sunk the ship with his Metaverse obsession, not to even mention countless scandals about privacy, botting, manipulation, and the site becoming unusable in general with promoted posts replacing posts by friends. A stunning fiasco – Facebook may …

One month after the merge, ETH has given up 27% of it’s value.

October 11, 2022 3:07 pm

by MKorostoff Is it even doing anything now? Defi and NFT have imploded, ICOs are long gone. It doesn’t seem to even have any made up uses at the moment.

Just a reminder that big banks lost about $95B in value of their positions in ~14 months posted in Fed’s H8 report. Until the Fed decided to remove this information in April, 2022.

October 6, 2022 9:42 am

by laflammaster

The combined value of the stock market and housing market has since 1980 completely detached from GDP. Are we in the biggest asset bubble ever?

October 6, 2022 8:11 pmOctober 6, 2022 8:57 am

by silvertomars Look at the inverse relationship between assets and interest rates… add QE to that as well in recent years… as inflation remains more sticky than the market thought, we are on a path to price discovery for bonds… …

NYC office buildings are set to see $50 BILLION in value wiped out as nearly 54% of workers in the Big Apple continue to work from home, new research suggests

October 4, 2022 2:58 pm

by Boo_Randy It’s only Yellen Bux, but still…. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11276799/NYC-office-buildings-set-50-BILLION-value-wiped-continue-work-home.html The city of New York continues to face devastating financial peril from remote work, as office buildings could potentially lose $50billion due to people doing their jobs from home. A recent …

Wipe Out! $32 TRILLION In Stock Value Wiped Out (US Core Deflator Rises To 4.9% Prompting Taylor Rule Fed Target Rate Of 9.65%, We Are Currently At 3.25%)

October 2, 2022 2:45 pmSeptember 30, 2022 11:56 am

by confoundedinterest17 Wipe out! $32 TRILLION of global stock value has been wiped out since December 2021. Today’s core PCE deflator reading of 4.9% YoY shows that the inflation surge is not over. With a core PCE deflator of 4.9%, the …

Fiat currency created out of thin air, or metals that have been a store of wealth and value for 5,000 years. Choose wisely.

September 25, 2022 11:04 pm

h/t Boo_Randy

Interesting that the Ukraine currency is losing value against the Euro while the Russian ruble is gaining value against the Euro.

September 13, 2022 12:53 pm

by Settlemente

State Of The US Consumer: McDonald’s Customers Trading Down, Buy Value Items As Combos Increasingly Unaffordable

July 26, 2022 9:21 pm

McDonald’s Corp. is one of the first major restaurant chains to report this earnings season and offered a grim warning about inflation and consumers. Same-store sales increased 9.7% in the second quarter versus a year ago. Wall Street analysts were …

Supermarkets put security tags on ‘high value’ items cheese, meat and BABY MILK as cost-of-living crisis drives thefts…

July 5, 2022 10:31 am

Now Lurpak nears a TENNER a pack: 1kg tub is spotted on sale in Iceland for eye-watering £9.30 while supermarkets put security tags on ‘high value’ items cheese, meat and BABY MILK as cost-of-living crisis drives thefts Photos posted to …

The public will quickly learn that COMMODITIES have far more value than worthless paper currency their governments can print at will…

July 5, 2022 9:20 am

by aubullionca

Black Monday October 19, 1987, DOW Jones Loses 22.6% of its Value

June 13, 2022 6:48 pm

If the Dow dropped 22% like it did in 1987, it would mean a loss of more than 5,700 points today https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/19/if-the-dow-dropped-22percent-like-1987-it-would-be-more-than-5700-points.html h/t JF Priest

Value of Lebanese pound drops to all-time low

May 27, 2022 9:35 am

by Boo_Randy The Lebanese sheeple let their corrupt elites and criminal central bankers lead their country to ruin. Now they’re paying the price for their passivity. Learn something, ‘Muricans. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/26/lebanese-pound-value-drops-to-lowest-level Beirut, Lebanon – The black market value of the Lebanese pound …

Housing Bubble Threatens To Trigger 50% Property Value Drop As Mortgage Rates Soar

May 12, 2022 1:52 pm

Nearly 14 years after the last housing bubble burst, inflated property values are about to face a brutal drop as rising mortgage rates and worsening affordability cool off the boom that sent home prices up by a staggering 34% over …

DISNEY has lost $34 BILLION in value since opposing Florida’s HB 1557 law to ban LGBTQ grooming of K-3 children…

April 25, 2022 9:51 am

Disney’s market cap has shrunk by nearly $34 billion since the company expressed its full-throated opposition to a Florida law banning instruction of gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools for kindergarten through third grade. Florida lawmakers in March …

Disney has lost more than $41 billion in shareholder value since the company’s plan to embed gender ideology into its children’s programming was exposed

April 23, 2022 11:50 am

Election Wizard – Twitter, Released on 4/23/22 REPORT: Disney has lost more than $41 billion in shareholder value since the release of internal videos exposing the company's plan to embed gender ideology into its children's programming. — Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) …

This month (April, 2022) iShares CMBS ETF has officially reached the lowest value since it’s lowest in October, 2018 and inception in March, 2012.

April 19, 2022 3:27 pm

by laflammaster

Global bonds have lost in value $6.4 trillion since ATH in summer 2021… and this is nominal return measured in fiat… the real return is much worse…

April 18, 2022 4:10 pm

by silvertomars The fastest inflation in decades and the resulting rush by central banks to raise interest rates are stoking recession fears in financial markets — worries that are being compounded by the impact of aggressive coronavirus lockdowns in China …

The Fed has more money on its balance sheet (8.9 trillion) then the total value of all 401ks in the United States (7.3 trillion as of 9/21).

April 7, 2022 10:10 am

by Jmeshareholder 5 trillion of that was added to the Fed’s balance sheet since Feb. 2020: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL 401k balances: https://www.ici.org/401k —— But oh ya, inflation is only happening because the ships and ports and all that jazz. Definitely not also because of …

OCC Quarterly Bank Derivatives Report: There is $177T notional value of derivatives in the US banks alone, with assets only $14T. Notional amounts for Holding companies is $234T, while assets at $19T. $140T are set in OTC swaps. OTC contracts account for ~96% of all derivative trades.

March 25, 2022 12:11 pm

by laflammaster https://occ.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/quarterly-report-on-bank-trading-and-derivatives-activities/files/pub-derivatives-quarterly-qtr4-2021.pdf https://occ.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/quarterly-report-on-bank-trading-and-derivatives-activities/files/pub-derivatives-quarterly-qtr4-2021.pdf