For those who only look at headlines, today’s payrolls report was a veritable shock: coming in at 467K, it was almost 4x the consensus median expectation of 125K, and was orders of magnitude above Goldman’s forecast of -250K. Putting the stunning, 3-sigma beat in context, it came above all 78 estimates, and was more than double the highest forecast of 225K from HSBC. Even more ludicrous were historical adjustments which saw December increased from 199K to 510K, November from 249K to 647K and so on…
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BLS Cooks Books to Generate January Jobs Report That No One Believes, for Good Reason…
There really isn’t an adequate way to encapsulate what the Bureau of Labor and Statistics has done with their reported January jobs result [Main Data Here]. If you want a deep weeds review of the actuarial scheme deployed READ THIS ARTICLE…
New Questions Emerge: Is the New York Fed Working for the American People or the Wall Street Banks that Own It?…
Adding to a very long laundry list of questions about exactly whom the New York Fed serves, is the help-wanted ad that was posted four days ago. The ad is for a Financial Planning & Analysis Expert to work at the New York Fed’s headquarters in lower Manhattan. One part of the job description is this: “modelling of potential investment opportunities.”…
A Stunned Wall Street Responds To Facebook’s Record $200 Billion Wipeout…
Facebook – or Meta now that it’s in the witness protection program – is making record after dismal record this morning after its catastrophic earnings and guidance last night: not only is the company’s 22% drop the biggest in its history…
When Repos Blew Up in 2019, Hedge Funds Were $800 Billion Short U.S. Treasury Futures; Then Margins Blew Out
New details have emerged to provide a fuller picture of the turmoil that was taking place in the dark corners of markets when the overnight repo market blew up on September 17, 2019 and the Fed had to run to the rescue with trillions of dollars in cumulative loans that went on for months…
IRS Will Require Face Scans to Access Taxes Online…
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will start requiring people to provide a photo of themselves to a third-party company to verify their identification before they can access their online accounts….
Trade Deficit Tops a Whopping $1 Trillion…
The U.S. trade deficit for goods surpassed $1 trillion for the first time in 2021 as the country saw an economic rebound after months of hardship amid the COVID-19 pandemic…
Financial Elites Plotting a ‘Great Reset’ to Destroy Personal Wealth…
As the world’s economy emerges from the crisis caused by the pandemic, global elites have pushed for a “Great Reset.” Brownstone Research founder Jeff Brown spoke with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow about the implications of this globalist vision for ordinary investors and how Brownstone Research’s personalized “Great Reset Protection Plan” provides all the tools investors need to protect themselves against these destructive market forces…
The Bloom Is off The Ruse, White House Port Manipulation Hiding Economic and Supply Chain Issues…
We have been tracking the issue of U.S. port congestion, supply chain crises and the White House supply chain initiatives since they first surfaced last fall. We finally have full data to review, and what we see is very disturbing. Not only was the White House supply chain effort a fraud, but they also manipulated the port system to give a false impression of the U.S. economy…
How the Top Cryptocurrencies Performed in 2021…
2021 saw the crypto markets boom and mature, with different sectors flourishing and largely outperforming the market leader, bitcoin…
JPMorgan’s Board Made Jamie Dimon a Billionaire as the Bank Rigged Markets, Laundered Money, and Admitted to Five Felony Counts…
Yesterday’s headline making the rounds was that JPMorgan Chase’s Board had given its Chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, a pay raise to $34.5 million for 2021 that was 10 percent more than 2020…
Biden Administration Confirms Canadian and Mexican Truck Drivers Must Show Vaccination Passport Beginning Tomorrow…The Preparation Window Has Closed…
The preparation window has closed. Given the destabilized and tenuous nature of the current supply chain, many people wondered if the Biden administration would actually be stupid enough to follow through with a truck driver vaccination mandate. The answer is yes. Please conduct yourselves accordingly…
Supply Chain, Ominous Headline from Canada: “Brace for Impact”…
The business section of the Toronto Star has an appropriate albeit ominous headline for Canadians today: “Brace for impact: Our supply chain is about to take a further hit, and we’ll all feel it“…
A Nomura Document May Shed Light on the Repo Blowup and Fed Bailout of the Gang of Six in 2019…
There are numerous reasons that members of Congress, bank regulators, and mainstream media don’t want to talk about the repo blowup in 2019 and the massive Fed bailout that followed. Economist Michael Hudson previously explained how the Fed lacked authority to bail out a handful of trading houses on Wall Street under the dictates of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation. Dodd-Frank restricted the Fed to using its emergency lending powers to rescue a “broad base” of the U.S. financial system…
Are You Enjoying Communism Yet? Biden Economy Shows 3rd Largest Manufacturing Drop In History in January…
In the third biggest month over month drop of U.S. manufacturing readings in history, behind only data from the start of the pandemic and the shut down of the U.S. economy, Bidenomics strike again…
Cross-Border Trucker Vaccine Protest Continues – First Warnings Issued for Food Supply Disruption and Higher Prices…
There are two merging inflection points set to hit the public in a few days. The first, is a much faster collapse in credibility for those who are pushing the vaccine benefit narrative. The second, the more widespread appearance of shortages for food and basic essentials. These two broad narratives are going to merge. CTH will outline the issues as they predictably surface. This outline focuses on the latter, the supply chain angle…
Global Economy Heading for “Mother of All” Supply Chain Shocks As China Locks Down Ports…
Over the past month, as Wall Street turned increasingly optimistic on US growth alongside the Fed, with consensus (shaped by the Fed’s leaks and jawboning) now virtually certain of a March rate hike, we have been repeatedly warning that after a huge policy error in 2021 when the Fed erroneously said that inflation is “transitory” (it wasn’t), the central bank is on pace to make another just as big policy mistake in 2022 by hiking as many as 4 times and also running off its massive balance sheet… right into a global growth slowdown…
Canada Drops Vaccine Mandate for Truckers Crossing Border…
Unvaccinated truckers will be permitted to cross the border from the United States, Canada’s border agency said on Wednesday…
Philadelphia Media Blame Grocery Store Shortages on “The Winter of Severe Illness and Death”, Omicron…
The issues will fluctuate region by region and chain by chain as we enter the destabilization phase. In this phase the impacts in some operators will be small, and in others will be more noticeable. The difference will be the overall operational excellence in the proprietary business system they operate…
Consumer Inflation Reaches 7 Percent in December, Highest Rate in Forty Years and Still Climbing…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the December inflation data today [DATA HERE] for December. Readers on these pages are not surprised to discover that inflation in the U.S. economy has now reached a forty year high at 7 percent…
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