The Federal Reserve decided to forgo an interest rate hike amid reports showing inflation is cooling and signaled that it will cut rates faster than previously anticipated next year…
Money for Nothing…
Remember, you are a sovereign individual and the blob in our nation’s capital city is an undifferentiated mass of feckless protoplasm. You contain a cosmos of ideas and aspirations. The blob is an agglomeration of sham and failure. The blob stands for itself, not for our country. You and I can stand for our country…
Now It All Makes Sense…
What we find is that the main economic events that took place were the ISM Services on Dec 5, the November Payrolls report on Dec 8, the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment report, the CPI report on Dec 12 (and let’s add today’s retail sales data just for additional context)…
Gold Drops After Spiking To Record High of $2,130…
… is all too real because suddenly everything that is non printable is soaring, starting with gold, which has exploded as much as $60, spiking to a new all time high of $2,135…
Fed Data on Cash Assets at the Biggest Banks Depicts an Out-of-Control Fed and Banking System Cash At Banks Goes on a Roller Coaster Since the Crash of 2008…
FRED is a giant online database at the St. Louis Fed that allows anyone to graph the financial and economic data stored in its repositories. We use the data regularly to bring our readers a crystal-clear snapshot of the increasingly dangerous underpinnings of the U.S. financial system…
Are U.S. Treasurys Still a Safe-Haven Asset? An Epic Bond-Market Crash and Rising Default Fears Are Sowing Doubts…
US Treasurys have long been the go-to asset when uncertainty, fear, and full-blown panic send investors looking for safety — but that reputation has take major hits lately…
Fed’s Financial Stability Report Says $20.3 Trillion Is Subject to a Run…
Last Friday, the Federal Reserve published its Financial Stability Report, which takes a detailed look at U.S. financial stability through the second quarter of this year. Although the Fed does its best to put a rosy glow on the outlook, it’s not a pretty picture…
Inside China’s Long Game to Infiltrate U.S. Politics…
As Chinese authorities escorted the senior Federal Reserve official from his Shanghai hotel room, they demanded he “say good things about China” when back in the United States…
Unprecedented Gold Hoarding by Central Banks Heralds Financial Sea Change…
Amid geopolitical tensions and global debt, central banks are expected to continue purchasing gold, further diminishing the appeal of the US dollar as a reserve currency…
The Perfect Storm Hits Big Banks: Tumbling Deposits, Rising Unrealized Losses, and Higher-for-Longer Interest Rates…
On March 30, 2022, two highly troubling events occurred: (1) Fed data showed that unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities at the 25 largest U.S. banks were approaching the levels they had reached during the financial crisis in 2008; and (2) the Fed simply stopped reporting unrealized gains and losses on these banks’ securities…
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