The U.S. economy is expanding at a 4.2 percent annualized rate in the third quarter, the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDPNow forecast model showed on Wednesday, following the release of the latest data on producer prices and wholesale trade. That was a tad faster than the 4.1 percent pace calculated on Oct. 5 by the Atlanta […]
5 Questions Worried Americans Will Ask After Dow Slumps Over 800 Points…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -3.15% S&P 500 index SPX, -3.29% and Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -4.08% have all been experiencing volatility in recent months, weighed by rising bond yields and a trade war with China. The Dow fell more than 800 points and the S&P 500 had its worst day since February. What […]
Trump Says Fed ‘Has Gone Crazy’ Following Stock Market Selloff…
President Donald Trump again criticized the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates, calling it a “mistake” hours after the worst U.S. stock market sell-off since February. “The Fed has gone crazy,” he told reporters on Wednesday as he arrived in Pennsylvania for a campaign rally. “So you can say that well that’s a lot of […]
The Fed Hikes Rates For The 8th Time, Ends “Accommodative” Era…
The Fed’s eight rate-hike since 2015 was perhaps the most anticipated yet, and Jay Powell did not let investors down, delivering the 25bps hike everyone expected. And so it was – but all eyes were on the dot plots and the language changes in the statement. As Bloomberg noted, Fed policy makers face two important […]
Central Planning Failed in the USSR, But Central Banks Have Revived It…
The Federal Reserve’s changing of the guard — the end of Janet Yellen’s tenure and the beginning of the Jerome Powell era — has me remembering what it was like to grow up in the former Soviet Union. Back then, our local grocery store had two types of sugar: The cheap one was priced at […]
Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson: The Fed Should Be Able to Make Secret Trillion Dollar Loans Again…
There seems to be a growing amount of concern these days about another epic financial crash on Wall Street. That, in itself, is a concern. After all, we’ve had only two great crashes in the past 89 years: one from 1929 to 1933 and one from 2008 to 2009. Why is another crash on the […]
The Fed Is on a Collision Course…
Is the Trump economic boom a mirage? The data say yes, but the Fed models say no. The Fed has a long track record of sticking to its model-based approach and missing major turns in the U.S. economy. Current Fed policy will push the U.S. economy to the brink of recession later this year. When […]
Nomi Prins on the Banks That Run the World (Audio and Transcript)…
In this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” host and Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer talks with Nomi Prins about her latest and, in Scheer’s words, “most ambitious” book, “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World.” The two discuss the 2008 financial crisis and the disconnect between governments and the governed, as well as Prins’ […]
Inflation Reaches Key Threshold for Fed Rate Hikes…
Inflation for the first time in several years has increased to the Federal Reserve’s annual target, the Commerce Department reported Monday, reaching a key threshold for the future of U.S. interest rates. The personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index, the Fed’s inflation barometer, increased 2 percent in the 12-month period ending in March, according to data […]
Why the World’s Central Banks hold Gold – In Their Own Words…
Collectively, the central bank sector claims to hold the world’s largest above ground gold bar stockpile, some 33,800 tonnes of gold bars. Individually within this group, some central banks claim to be the top holders of gold bullion in the world, with individual holdings in the thousands of tonnes range. This worldwide central bank group, […]
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