The Federal Reserve delivered another 75 basis point interest rate hike at its July FOMC meeting. This pushes the federal funds rate over the 2% threshold to between 2.25% and 2.5%…
No Recession? All of a Sudden Yield Spreads Are Collapsing…
No recession. That was the recent declaration from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, noting that consumer spending, industrial output, credit quality, and other indicators don’t suggest economic risk…
Expert Proved Biden’s Treasury Secretary Dead Wrong on Inflation, His New Warning Shows She Can’t See What’s Coming…
For the Joe Biden presidency, it was a bad start. For the rest of the country, it’s likely to be a worse week — and November can’t come fast enough…
When Is a Recession Not a Recession? When the Financial Media Need to Protect Joe Biden…
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is scheduled to deliver their calculation for the second quarter (Apr, May, June) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on July 28, next week. The calculation is essentially the total value of all goods and services generated within the U.S. economy, minus the value of exports received…
Former Obama Economic Advisor Says Best Way to Deal with Inflation Is to Raise Taxes and Plunge Main Street into a Recession…
Jason Furman is the former Chairman of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama; he is currently a professor at Harvard teaching economics. If you ever wondered why the economy under Obama included the weakest economic recovery in history, the advice of Furman might explain it…
Flight 1745: Layover in Babylon…
While the father of Hunter Biden is off in the middle east begging for oil without a pot to piss in, it’s no real coincidence that his predecessor (hmm) is back here in the states continuing to create mayhem for the enemies of all that is good…
Producer Price Index Hits Peak 11.3 Percent Inflation Driven by Biden Energy Policy – Service Prices Now Indicate Recession…
The “Producer Price Index” (PPI) is essentially the tracking of wholesale prices at three stages: Origination (commodity), Intermediate (processing), and then Final (to wholesale). Today, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released June price data [Available Here] showing another 11.3% increase year-over-year in Final Demand products at the wholesale level….
“Take The Tragedy in Sri Lanka and Multiply by Ten”: The Fed Just Lobbed a Financial Nuke That Will Obliterate the Global Economy…
We are living in a period of mass “Jonestown” economic delusion. Just twenty months ago – central bankers were offering to buy nearly every junk bond known to mankind, dramatically distorting the “true cost of capital.” All the way from crypto to emerging markets – it was a moral hazard overdose. Everyone on earth was borrowing money at fantasy-land bond yields…
Two Examinations of U.S. Economic Policy…
Today I am pleased to present a double feature on economic policy. Michael Hudson leads off with an explanation of economic policy as a social cost to the working class, and I follow up with an explanation that US economic policy is an act of national suicide…
Inflationary Pressure Is Worse Than They Say…
We are apparently back in the spend-your-way-to-prosperity mode. Last week Wall Street greeted the “strong” April PCE number with a spree of dip-buying, but you have to wonder just how long households can keep reaching into their cookie jars in order to spend what they are not earning…
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