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Inflation is Transitory Again
Inflation is Transitory Again Because it has to be in order to fund Bidenomics. As Powell clasps his hands in desperate hope without any evidence to back his hope, the US Treasurer today, like the Treasurer in yesteryear, is giving a solid thumbs-up to his plan, which is already accomplishing everything the Treasury desperately needed. […]
What Are the Odds the Fed Hikes Interest Rates to 8 Percent?
What Are the Odds the Fed Hikes Interest Rates to 8 Percent? I ask the question because the number came up in a recent JP Morgan publication. 8 Percent “Prediction” or “Possibility”? This headline by TFTC caught my eye: JP Morgan Predicts Crushing 8% Interest Rate Spike JP Morgan forecasts interest rates rising to 8%, potentially […]
David Stockman on the $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room
David Stockman on the $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room These people have to be stopped! We are talking about the nation’s unhinged monetary politburo domiciled in the Eccles Building, of course. It is bad enough that their relentless inflation of financial assets has showered the 1% with untold trillions of windfall gains, but their […]
If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You’re Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t
If Treasury Bonds Hit 5%, You’re Gonna See Some Serious Sh*t Almost as if all of us Austrian Economists (read: any carbon based life form using common sense when it comes to finance) live in an echo chamber together, a third expert I respect came out over the last few days and has warned that 5% on […]
The Federal Reserve Is About to Go Full Banana Republic
The Federal Reserve Is About to Go Full Banana Republic Peeling back the truth, one banana at a time. According to an article on Yahoo! today, the top banana in finance, J. Powell, has already decided to go full bananatard. It is the financial hallmark of banana republics to print money in order to finance […]
Central Banks Are Wrong about Rate Cuts
Central Banks Are Wrong about Rate Cuts When we talk about monetary policy, people do not understand the importance of interest rates reflecting the reality of inflation and risk. Interest rates are the price of risk and manipulating them down leads to bubbles that end in financial crises, while imposing too high rates can penalize the […]
Woods Exposes the Federal Reserve System
Woods Exposes the Federal Reserve System The first thing to know about Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.’s’ book Our Enemy, the Fed is he’s giving it away. Click the link, get your copy and read the whole book. Clearly, such intellectual charity is not only rare but in the educational spirit of Mises.org. The subject matter is […]
Markets Are Biting Their Lips over Global Chaos
Markets Are Biting Their Lips over Global Chaos And Fed Chair Powell is joining them because suddenly nothing is going right for his soft-landing plans! Rising Middle-East tensions are driving up the price of crude oil and driving down the price of stocks and value of bonds. Analysts are saying oil could go to $100/bbl […]
Forget the Black Swans; the Vultures already Circling us Are Bad Enough to Kill us
Forget the Black Swans; the Vultures already Circling us Are Bad Enough to Kill us There is certainly more coming to eat away at your finances as infamous bankster Jamie Dimon laid out quite broadly and plainly this week. Photo by Abhishek Singh on Unsplash Jamie Dimon never saw a dying bank he didn’t want to eat. Yet, […]
The Meltdown of Commercial Real Estate
The Meltdown of Commercial Real Estate Commentary In case you’ve still got money in a bank, Bloomberg is warning that defaults in commercial real estate loans could “topple” hundreds of U.S. banks. Leaving taxpayers on the hook for trillions in losses. The note, by senior editor James Crombie, walks us through the festering hellscape that is […]
The Fed’s Dovish Twist – Only Surprising on the Surface
The Fed’s Dovish Twist – Only Surprising on the Surface Rate Cuts, Money Printer Go Brrr, and Biden “The Federal Reserve is not only too big to fail, it’s too big to be held accountable.” ~ Thomas Massie Last week at its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the Fed made it clear that it […]
“We Will Have A Hard Landing At Some Point. I Guarantee You That.”
“We Will Have A Hard Landing At Some Point. I Guarantee You That.” Can you guess who the quote in the article title is from? I will give you a hint. It wasn’t me. I know that it sounds like it could have come from me, but it actually comes from a very big name […]
Irony Alert: “Outlawing” Recession Has Made a Monster Recession Inevitable
Irony Alert: “Outlawing” Recession Has Made a Monster Recession Inevitable Those who came of age after 1982 have never experienced a real recession, and so they’re unprepared for anything other than guarantees of rescue and permanent expansion. The mainstream view is that recession is caused by economic-financial factors. The mainstream view is wrong, for recession […]
