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…
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink: Understanding the Man Who Invented “Woke” Capitalism…
Podcaster and businessman Patrick Bet-David recently compiled a brief and essential rundown of BlackRock’s Larry Fink, the man who bought the world…
The Global Uprising Against CBDCs Has Begun!…
But here’s the hot part of my hot take: CBDCs are deeply unpopular with the general public and we have a chance of stopping them in their tracks…
On This Day in 1971, Nixon ‘Temporarily’ Detonates a Money Bomb, Suspends Gold Standard and Turns the Dollar Into Funny Money…
The dollar has lost almost 90% of its value since 1971…
Investors Go ‘All In’ on the Soft Landing Narrative…
Investors have now gone “all in” on the soft landing narrative, just like they did in 1989, 2000 and 2007…
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