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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 […]
What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve?
What Does the Fed’s Jerome Powell Have Up His Sleeve? The Real Goal of Fed Policy: Breaking Inflation, the Middle Class or the Bubble Economy? “There is no sense that inflation is coming down,” said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at a November 2 press conference, — this despite eight months of aggressive interest rate hikes and “quantitative […]
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 […]
The Big Questions We Should All Be Asking Geopolitically
The Big Questions We Should All Be Asking Geopolitically To say that current events are ‘messy’ today would be the height of understatement. Everyday the headlines blare at us some new set of contradictory data points convincing us of some lie that serves someone’s purpose. No matter how hard we try to keep up with […]
FRA-OIS Explodes: Here Is The Only Chart Powell Is Closely Watching, And Why It Is Soaring
FRA-OIS Explodes: Here Is The Only Chart Powell Is Closely Watching, And Why It Is Soaring Some were quick to mock repo guru and former NY Fed staffer Zoltan Pozsar when he warned that the unexpected western blockade of Russia had the feel of a Lehman weekend, because virtually nobody had any idea what the forced exclusion […]
Fed Chair Faces the Ultimate Lose-Lose Decision
Fed Chair Faces the Ultimate Lose-Lose Decision Photo by Vadim Sadovski The U.S. economy teeters between two catastrophes: wild and untamed hyperinflation that turns cash into wallpaper, or an epic crash that would make 2008 look like a day at the beach. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has led the U.S. government’s monetary policy to this […]
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 […]
2021 Year in Review: Crisis of Authority and the Age of Narratives
2021 Year in Review: Crisis of Authority and the Age of Narratives Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year is no exception. Poignant and delightfully acerbic when necessary, considering the troubling times. As with past years, he selected Peak Prosperity […]
Chairman Powell Paralyzed With Fear As Inflation Takes Over
Chairman Powell Paralyzed With Fear As Inflation Takes Over Public domain, courtesy of the Federal Reserve One thing is certain, inflation is no longer officially “transitory.” For months, recently reappointed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell kept telling the public that rising inflation was transitory, and would soon subside. It hasn’t, and isn’t likely to in the near future […]
The Biggest Federal Reserve Scandal
The Biggest Federal Reserve Scandal Following revelations that Federal Reserve officials made trades in financial assets while the Fed was taking extraordinary efforts to “stimulate” the economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell ordered a review of the Fed’s ethics rules. While these trades appear problematic, they pale in comparison to the biggest Fed scandal — […]
Transitory Inflation Takes Hold of the Economy – How Long Will It Last?
Transitory Inflation Takes Hold of the Economy – How Long Will It Last? Cherry blossoms symbolize the fleeting nature of all things. Photo by Haoshuang Lou Just a couple of weeks ago, Bloomberg reported that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold investors on the idea that rising inflation wasn’t going to last. Officially, as of May 2021, inflation had risen […]
How to Buffer the Fallout from America’s Third World Death Spiral
How to Buffer the Fallout from America’s Third World Death Spiral “What the hell?!” – President Joe Biden, June 16, 2021 Out of Control American workers are trying to make their way in an economy that’s rigged against them. We made this claim many years ago. Today, for fun and for free, we revisit this assertion…starting with the […]
Two Pins Threatening Multiple Asset Bubbles
Two Pins Threatening Multiple Asset Bubbles “Powell Says Fed Policies “Absolutely” Don’t Add To Inequality” -Bloomberg May 2020 The headline above is but one of countless times Fed Chairman Powell and his colleagues confidently said their policies do not result in wealth or income inequality. Their political stature and use of complex economic lingo give […]
