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What Happens If The Fed Doesn’t Capitulate On Interest Rates?
What Happens If The Fed Doesn’t Capitulate On Interest Rates? In the past stock markets used to rely on the innovation and profit reports of individual companies, and while there were sometimes all encompassing events that would push equities in one direction or another, in the last decade there has been only one factor that ever really […]
#235. The affordability crisis
#235. The affordability crisis WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING What might be called the ‘consensus narrative of the moment’ is that our near-term economic prospects depend on the ability of central banks to tame inflation without tipping the economy into a severe recession. There are numerous complications, of course, but this is the gist of the story. What these […]
“Take The Tragedy In Sri Lanka And Multiply By Ten”: The Fed Just Lobbed A Financial Nuke That Will Obliterate The Global Economy
“Take The Tragedy In Sri Lanka And Multiply By Ten”: The Fed Just Lobbed A Financial Nuke That Will Obliterate The Global Economy We are living in a period of mass “Jonestown” economic delusion. Just twenty months ago – central bankers were offering to buy nearly every junk bond known to mankind, dramatically distorting the […]
Media: Why the Fed Raised 75 bps and How to Break the Davos Crowd
Media: Why the Fed Raised 75 bps and How to Break the Davos Crowd I sat down for a long chat with my good friend Crypto Rich over the weekend and have just found the 20 minutes to post them here. We did a series of videos, Duran-style, on a number of topics. They are […]
The Fed Is Winging It: A 75 Basis-Point Hike “Seemed Like the Right Thing”
The Fed Is Winging It: A 75 Basis-Point Hike “Seemed Like the Right Thing” The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) today announced an increase of 75 basis points to the target federal funds rate, raising the rate to 1.75% from 1%. June’s meeting today was the third meeting this year at which the FOMC has […]
ECB Holds Emergency Meeting To Discuss Market Turmoil
ECB Holds Emergency Meeting To Discuss Market Turmoil Last week, shortly after the ECB’s latest meeting disappointed markets and concluded without a discussion of Europe’s growing bond market fragmentation (which is to be expected since QE – the glue that held the Euro area’s bond market together – is ending) and which has since sent […]
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 […]
Australia Shocks With Bigger Than Expected Rate Hike, As Lowe Admits Embarrassment At Being So Wrong
Australia Shocks With Bigger Than Expected Rate Hike, As Lowe Admits Embarrassment At Being So Wrong In our preview of what was expected to be Australia’s first rate hike since 2010, we said that consensus expects a 15bps rate hike to 0.25%, with a handful of bank still expecting a hold (including CBA, Goldman and […]
Designing a new currency is impractical
Designing a new currency is impractical Rising interest rates threaten to destabilise both financial asset values and the fiat currencies in which they are priced. This outcome is feared by the chattering classes who increasingly speculate about currency resets. So far, we have seen cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, plans for the introduction of central bank […]
The Total Collapse in Confidence of Government on Every Level
The Total Collapse in Confidence of Government on Every Level QUESTION: Greetings! You have said “they” want the economy to turn down, this is their goal with all the lockdowns. So now you say that if the economy has a low after March it will mean a decline into 2023. Does this mean “they” are […]
Fed Rate Hike Will Cause Hyperinflationary Great Depression – John Williams
Fed Rate Hike Will Cause Hyperinflationary Great Depression – John Williams Economist John Williams says the economy is in deep trouble, and the Fed knows it. Williams says the Fed talking up “robust economic growth” that is causing inflation is “nonsense.” Williams explains, “The one thing that is not causing inflation is ‘robust economic growth.’ […]
Peter Schiff: The Fed Made This Bed and Now We Have to Lie In It
Peter Schiff: The Fed Made This Bed and Now We Have to Lie In It Inflation is running hot. Economic data is running cold. Stocks and bonds are under pressure. The Fed is scrambling. In his podcast, Peter Schiff talked about the trajectory of the economy. He said we’re on the cusp of the most […]
Is Powell Again Pulling Strings From “The Shadows”?
Is Powell Again Pulling Strings From “The Shadows”? Recently, we have seen stocks rally while the dollar falls. Some of us are wondering why the dollar is falling at the same time currency traders are busy penciling in as many as four interest rate increases. The ICE U.S. Dollar Index, a measure of the currency […]
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 […]
Money supply and rising interest rates
Money supply and rising interest rates The establishment, including the state, central banks and most investors are thoroughly Keynesian, the latter category having profited greatly in recent decades from their slavish following of the common meme. That is about to change. The world of continual Keynesian stimulus is coming to its inevitable end with prices […]
