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It’s Game Over for the Fed—Expect a Monetary “Rug Pull” Soon…
It’s Game Over for the Fed—Expect a Monetary “Rug Pull” Soon… You often hear the media, politicians, and financial analysts casually toss around the word “trillion” without appreciating what it means. A trillion is a massive, almost unfathomable number. The human brain has trouble understanding something so huge. So let me try to put it […]
Bigger than you can imagine
Bigger than you can imagine One of the problems with claims that our situation is “just like the 1970s,” is that very few adults of the period are still around to share the memory. Those of us who were children at the time have only memories distorted through the lens of childhood innocence. I, for […]
US Consumer Prices Soared In June, Americans’ Real Wages Fall For 15th Straight Month
US Consumer Prices Soared In June, Americans’ Real Wages Fall For 15th Straight Month With The White House having desperately tried to front-run this morning’s inflation print, analysts were expecting a jump higher led by food and energy costs. They were right in direction but it was way worse as the headline CPI soared 9.1% […]
Rabobank: It’s A Depressing Idea To Admit We Have No Ideas
Rabobank: It’s A Depressing Idea To Admit We Have No Ideas It is said that small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, and great minds talk about ideas – and I would add the smallest of minds talk about themselves. The smallest-minded market view is what your individual asset class did yesterday. For […]
The Inflation Crisis Is Worse Than Admitted – Will Interest Rates Go To Record Highs?
The Inflation Crisis Is Worse Than Admitted – Will Interest Rates Go To Record Highs? Inflation is not a new problem in the US; there has been a steady expansion of price inflation and a devaluation of the dollar ever since the Federal Reserve was officially made operational in 1916. This inflation is easily observed […]
German Retailers To Increase Food Prices By 20-50% On Monday
German Retailers To Increase Food Prices By 20-50% On Monday Just days after Germany reported the highest inflation in generation (with February headline CPI soaring at a 7.6% annual pace and blowing away all expectations), giving locals a distinctly unpleasant deja vu feeling even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine broke what few supply chains remained and […]
The Fed Just Guaranteed a Stagflation Crisis in 2022 – Here’s How
The Fed Just Guaranteed a Stagflation Crisis in 2022 – Here’s How Chair Powell leads a two day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held January 29-30th, 2019. Public domain photo courtesy of the Federal Reserve I don’t think I can overstate the danger that the U.S. economy is in right now as we enter […]
Peter Schiff: The Inflation Freight Train
Peter Schiff: The Inflation Freight Train December Consumer Price Index data came out on Wednesday (Jan. 12). Month-on-month, it was again even hotter than expected. Peter called it an inflationary freight train that the Fed’s “field of dreams” monetary policy will not stop. “Transitory” inflation has now been running hot for a full year. The […]
US Consumer Prices Soar At Fastest In 39 Years, Real Wages Tumble For 9th Straight Month
US Consumer Prices Soar At Fastest In 39 Years, Real Wages Tumble For 9th Straight Month Consensus was convinced – with barely any outliers – that this morning’s consumer price index would print with an astonishing 7.0% YoY (and notably 7 of the last 9 releases have come in above consensus) and they nailed it […]
“Peak Inflation Is Here”- Jim Rickards
“Peak Inflation Is Here”- Jim Rickards Peak Inflation Is Here and Gone Last week Stansberry Investor’s Daniela Cambone interviewed Jim Rickards and got his take on inflation. We think this is a solid interview and Jim makes some good reasonable explanations as to why inflation has done what it has. Rickards puts much of the blame squarely […]
Inflation Soared to 6.8% in November
Inflation Soared to 6.8% in November Inflation is soaring with no end in sight. The Consumer Price Index rose 0.8% in November, marking a 6.8% increase in inflation YoY. According to the Labor Department, this is the fastest pace of inflation since June 1982. In addition, Core-CPI rose 0.5% last month, amounting to a 4.9% […]
And Just Like That, Inflation Is About To Disappear?
And Just Like That, Inflation Is About To Disappear? Earlier this year, when inflation was still “transitory” two Fed chairs, Powell and Bernanke, made comments which we joked only make sense if the definition of inflation is changed: Sadly, our feeble attempts at humor were not unjustified, and as any economic history buff knows the […]
Fed’s Lowest Lowball Inflation Measure Spikes to Worst-Hottest 31-Year High. Powell Groans and Mutters
Fed’s Lowest Lowball Inflation Measure Spikes to Worst-Hottest 31-Year High. Powell Groans and Mutters But the Fed has now backed off its ridiculous claims and is taking inflation more seriously. The lowest lowball inflation measure that the US government produces, “core PCE,” which excludes the now soaring food and energy prices and understates inflation by […]
The Futility of Central Bank Policy
THE FUTILITY OF CENTRAL BANK POLICY It is only now becoming clear to the investing public that the purchasing power of their currencies is declining at an accelerating rate. There is no doubt that yesterday’s announcement that the US CPI rose by 6.2%, compared with the longstanding 2% target, came as a wake-up call to […]
