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American Exceptionalism Is on the Ropes and the End of the Petrodollar Is Nigh
American Exceptionalism Is on the Ropes and the End of the Petrodollar Is Nigh From the border wall rhetoric to trade wars, Trump is effectively setting up the implosion of the dollar and couching it as pseudo nationalistic populism. The pressure on the global economy imposed by the measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic threatens […]
After the Fed Punts, the ECB Throws Another Hail Mary
After the Fed Punts, the ECB Throws Another Hail Mary Last week FOMC Chair Jerome Powell and company did, essentially nothing, at their June meeting. They held interest rates at 0.25%, did not expand QE nor did they indicate any changes. This wasn’t what the market wanted, as the bond were pushing the Fed to […]
Weekly Commentary: Extraordinary Q1 2020 Z.1 Flow of Funds
Weekly Commentary: Extraordinary Q1 2020 Z.1 Flow of Funds Financial crisis erupted in March. The Fed slashed rates at a March 3rd emergency meeting – and then began aggressively expanding its holdings/balance sheet (creating market liquidity). Even from a “flow of funds” perspective, it was one extraordinary quarter. Total Non-Financial Debt (NFD) surged a nominal […]
The Fed Just Pulled Off Another Backdoor Bailout of Wall Street
The Fed Just Pulled Off Another Backdoor Bailout of Wall Street Source: Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve has authorized 11 financial bailout programs thus far. Despite Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s reassurances at his press conferences that these programs are to help American families, a full 10 of these programs are actually bailouts of Wall Street […]
Making Sense Of An Increasingly Insensible World
Making Sense Of An Increasingly Insensible World Creating purpose and fulfillment within a failing system What the heck is going on? I hear this a lot these days. Developments are happening too quickly to process for many folks, creating a persisting cloud of confusion. Even focusing down on any particular single event often gets nowhere […]
Central Banks Bailed Out Markets To Avoid Trillions In Pension Losses
Central Banks Bailed Out Markets To Avoid Trillions In Pension Losses The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published a report showing how pension funds in OECD countries recorded a massive loss of approximately $2.5 trillion during the stock market meltdown in February through late March. Shortly, after that, central banks intervened with monetary cannons to rescue stock markets and […]
Fed Warns of High Downside Risks
Fed Warns of High Downside Risks In its semiannual monetary report to the Senate Finance Committee the Fed warns of six downside risks. The risks are not spread evenly. Low wage earners and small businesses are particularly vulnerable. Please consider the Fed’s Monetary Policy Report to the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and to […]
Unintended Consequences of Monetary Inflation
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF MONETARY INFLATION “In short, the Fed is committed to rescue businesses from the greatest economic catastrophe since the great depression and probably even greater than that, to fund the US Government’s rocketing budget deficits, fund the maintenance of domestic consumption directly or indirectly through the US Treasury, while pumping up financial markets […]
The Fed Just Got the Perfect Cover for the Collapse of the U.S. Economy
The Fed Just Got the Perfect Cover for the Collapse of the U.S. Economy The scapegoating has already started. In almost every sector of the economy that is collapsing, the claim is that “everything was fine until the pandemic happened”. From tumbling web news platforms to small businesses to major corporations, the coronavirus outbreak and […]
Here Is The Stunning Chart That Blows Up All Of Modern Central Banking
Here Is The Stunning Chart That Blows Up All Of Modern Central Banking Several years ago, when conventional wisdom dictated that to push inflation higher and jumpstart lethargic economies, central banks have to push rates so low as to make saving punitive and force consumers to go out and spend their hard earned savings, several […]
Fed Chair Just Made This Inadvertent Case for Gold
Fed Chair Just Made This Inadvertent Case for Gold This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Powell boosts gold in Fed speech, why gold is the best bet to make now, and gold remains undervalued as an asset. Fed Chair Powell gives […]
Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization
Food for Thought – US Population, Employment, Debt, NIRP, Monetization In 2019, US population growth fell to +1.55m or +0.5%…this was due to a trifecta of declining births, lower immigration, and higher deaths than anticipated. However, as with everything “2020”, all three trends are only intensifying to blow away 2019. Births are falling faster and […]
Here’s What Would Happen If The Fed Launched Negative Rates
Here’s What Would Happen If The Fed Launched Negative Rates On Thursday, May 7, an unprecedented event took place: after a violent repricing in Eurodollar contracts as near as November 2020, for the first time ever the market was pricing in that negative interest rates are not only coming to the US, but would arrive […]
The Fed’s Visible Hand: Powell Buys $305 Million In ETFs In Two Days
The Fed’s Visible Hand: Powell Buys $305 Million In ETFs In Two Days On Tuesday, the US officially crossed over into some bizarro version of a crony, centrally-planned mandated pricing model that is anything but a market when the Fed started buying corporate bond ETFs for the first time ever. Then, moments ago in its […]
How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino
How the COVID-19 Bailout Gave Wall Street a No-Lose Casino While ordinary Americans face record unemployment and loss, the COVID-19 bailout has saved the very rich This story appears in the June 2020 print edition of Rolling Stone. In late April Marko Kolanovic, a financial analyst for JPMorgan Chase, wrote to clients with good news. Pandemic […]
