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“This Is All About Stagflation… The U.S. Is Walking Into The Early Stages Of The Fourth Turning”
“This Is All About Stagflation… The U.S. Is Walking Into The Early Stages Of The Fourth Turning” We believe the U.S. is walking into the early stages of the Fourth Turning, a subject entertained below. In this note we break down the ideal 2020-2030 portfolio and why it is so different from the 2010-2020 vintage. […]
No inflation? Even used car prices are soaring
No inflation? Even used car prices are soaring We’ve reached a point now where anyone who can’t see inflation is clearly not paying attention. Inflation has now become so ridiculous that, according to the Wall Street Journal, even the price of a USED car is increasing… by a lot. Since January 2020, NEW car prices […]
It’s Getting Serious: Dollar’s Purchasing Power Plunges Most since 2007. But it’s a Lot Worse than it Appears
It’s Getting Serious: Dollar’s Purchasing Power Plunges Most since 2007. But it’s a Lot Worse than it Appears Fed officials, economists “surprised” by surge in CPI inflation, but we’ve seen it for months, including “scary-crazy” inflation in some corners. The Consumer Price Index jumped 0.8% in April from March, after having jumped 0.6% in March from […]
Rabo: Please Don’t Make Us Look At The Inflation
Rabo: Please Don’t Make Us Look At The Inflation Markets continue to reel: “Risk crumbles”, says Bloomberg. Why? Because there is a plaintive plea from everyone from the Fed and the Treasury down to simple peddlers of exotic derivatives: please don’t make us look at the inflation! Yes, it’s US inflation-data day – and nobody wants to see […]
Jim Grant: The Fed Can’t Control Inflation
Jim Grant: The Fed Can’t Control Inflation Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell insists inflation is “transitory.” As prices have spiked throughout the economy, Powell’s messaging has essentially been, “Move along. Nothing to see here.” Peter Schiff has been saying the central bankers at the Fed can’t actually tell the truth about inflation because even if they acknowledge it’s a […]
Consumers Expect Surging Inflation to Crush the Purchasing Power of their Labor: Fed’s Survey
Consumers Expect Surging Inflation to Crush the Purchasing Power of their Labor: Fed’s Survey And there are some whoppers. Consumers are picking up on the rise of inflation, and the Fed, which has been trying to heat up inflation, is pleased. The Fed watches “inflation expectations” carefully. The minutes from the March FOMC meeting mention […]
Keep It Simple: Gold vs. a Mad World
Keep It Simple: Gold vs. a Mad World Psychologists, poets and philosophers have written for centuries that many who have eyes refuse to see, and many who can think, refuse to think clearly–all for the simple reason that some truths, like the sun, are just too hard to look straight into. Or as others have […]
Weekly Commentary: Generational Turning Point
Weekly Commentary: Generational Turning Point There is an overarching issue I haven’t been able to get off my mind: Are we at the beginning of something new or in the waning days of the previous multi-decade cycle? May 5 – Wall Street Journal (James Mackintosh): “We could be at a generational turning point for finance. […]
The Inflation Monster Has Been Unleashed
The Inflation Monster Has Been Unleashed The monster known as inflation has been unleashed upon the world and will not easily retreat into the night. This is reflected in soaring commodity and housing prices. Due to the stupid and self-serving policies of the Fed, we are about to experience a massive shift in the way […]
Existential Economic Threats: How U.S. States Can Survive Without Federal Money
Existential Economic Threats: How U.S. States Can Survive Without Federal Money We all knew it was coming; the alternative economic media has been warning about it for years. Eventually, monetary intervention and bailout after bailout by central banks always leads to devaluation of the currency and inflation in prices. Helicopter money always ends in disaster […]
Dangers Of Programmable Money Explained
Dangers Of Programmable Money Explained Dominic Frisby with Money, Markets & Other Matters talks about the war on cash and central bank digital currency, known as CBDC. He questions if CBDCs are “the final step into the brave new world – Orwellian great reset dystopia – we seem to be heading towards” or are they “the onramp to the Bitcoin […]
Investors Do Not See “Transitory” Inflation
Investors Do Not See “Transitory” Inflation The Federal Reserve and European Central Bank repeat that the recent inflationary spike is “transitory”. The problem is that investors do not buy it. Inflation is always a monetary phenomenon, and this time is not different. What central banks call transitory effects, and the impact of supply chains are not the real drivers […]
Inflation, real interest rates revisited
Inflation, real interest rates revisited Gold prices ticked higher on Tuesday after inflation data showed US consumer prices rose in March for the fourth straight month and inflation hit its highest level in 2.5 years. Gold for June delivery climbed $8.50, or half a percent, to $1,741.20 an ounce, and spot gold at time of […]
I Now Track the Most Important Measure of the Fed’s Economy: the “Wealth Effect” and How it Impacts Americans Individually
I Now Track the Most Important Measure of the Fed’s Economy: the “Wealth Effect” and How it Impacts Americans Individually The Fed provides the data quarterly, I dissect it at the stunning per-capita level. The Federal Reserve is pursuing monetary policies that are explicitly designed to inflate asset prices. The rationalization is that ballooning asset […]
