It appears that, the worse the economy was doing, the higher the odds of a rate hike. Putting the Federal Reserve’s third rate hike in 11 years into context, if the Atlanta Fed’s forecast is accurate, 0.9% GDP would mark the weakest quarter since 1980 in which rates were raised (according to Bloomberg data)…
Janet Yellen Explains Why She Hiked In A 0.9% GDP Quarter…
Stronger Economic Growth? Over My Dead Body, Says Janet Yellen…
The U.S. economy is weak. Very weak. But the Federal Reserve is planning to raise interest rates anyway. Why? Here’s what’s going on: According to the Atlanta Fed the US economy is expected to grow at a respectable 2.8 percent for the first quarter of 2017 That’s not bad considering that, for the entire year […]
The Next Domino to Fall: Commercial Real Estate…
Unless the Federal Reserve intends to buy up every dead and dying mall in America, this is one crisis that the Fed can’t bail out with a few digital keystrokes. Just as generals prepare to fight the last war, central banks prepare to battle the last financial crisis–which in the present context means a big-bank […]
REPORT: Why Central Banks Were Forced To Rig The Gold Market…
According to newly uncovered information in the gold market, it provides additional evidence of why the Fed, Central Banks and the IMF were forced to RIG the gold market. Not only was the dropping of the Gold-Dollar peg going to release a great deal of pressure on the manipulated gold price, but forecasts of a […]
The Fed Has Now Set the Stage for An Ides of March Moment…
Whether or not one agrees that the Federal Reserve is preparing to raise rates again at its upcoming meeting this March, one thing is certain: The Fed. has done everything shy of setting its hair-on-fire to leave little doubt that they are seriously considering it. As of this past Friday the consensus (or odds) for […]
Stockman: “After March 15 Everything Will Grind To A Halt”…
“I think what people are missing is this date, March 15th 2017. That’s the day that this debt ceiling holiday that Obama and Boehner put together right before the last election in October of 2015. That holiday expires. The debt ceiling will freeze in at $20 trillion. It will then be law. It will be […]
Who Rules the United States? by Matthew Continetti…
Donald Trump was elected president last November by winning 306 electoral votes. He pledged to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C., to overturn the system of politics that had left the nation’s capital and major financial and tech centers flourishing but large swaths of the country mired in stagnation and decay. “What truly matters,” he […]
Dow Hits 20,500 – Hawkish Yellen Sparks (Another) Buying Panic In Banks, Batters Bonds…
86 days in a row without a 1% drop… Buy The No Dip…
Former Federal Reserve Staffer Says Economists at Central Bank Don’t Know How Economy Works…
A former staffer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has criticized the central bank, saying economists employed there don’t know how finance and the economy works, the Wall Street Journal reported. Danielle DiMartino Booth was hired as an adviser to Richard Fisher, a former president of the Dallas Fed who also criticized quantitative easing—the […]
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