Monetary Policy Is Not Expansionary Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Monetary policy is not expansionary despite widespread belief otherwise. The general assumption by the Federal Reserve is...
Monetary policy is not expansionary despite widespread belief otherwise. The general assumption by the Federal Reserve is that by providing excess reserves to the banking system,...
The Federal Reserve Chairman steadied the post-US-inflation ship overnight, reiterating that virus-disrupted price increases among the CPI components would ease in the coming months. Regarding the...
Consumer inflation in the US remained surprisingly hot in June, the Labor Department reported yesterday. Taken at face value, the numbers raise more doubts about the...
Stronger inflation data in the US again fuels the ‘transitory-versus-persistent’ debate on the fundamental nature of inflationary pressures. It is a discussion that has further to...
Schiff: US Government Spending Sure Isn't Transitory Via SchiffGold.com, The mainstream narrative is that the Fed will soon admit that inflation isn’t transitory. At that point, it...
I do take pleasure in being a kiwi on many levels, one of which is the refreshing habit kiwis have of telling it like it is....
When we think about MBS, it’s the historical downtrend in bond yields that matters, not federal debt and not tapering. HW+ Premium Content The post For...
When we think about MBS, it’s the historical downtrend in bond yields that matters, not federal debt and not tapering. HW+ Premium Content The post For...
In mid-June, Fed Chair Jay Powell pulled the rug from beneath the reflation trade by suggesting current inflation pressures were perhaps not transitory after all. Fixed...
There has been a fair bit of catching up to do after the past week spent outside of the financial market’s matrix. The biggest takeaways appear...
In this 07-09-21 issue of "Yields Plunge Dollar Surges The Reflation Trade Unravels." Market Pulls Back As Signals Turn Yield Plunge, Dollar Surge The Reflation Trade...
This month’s upcoming release of preliminary second-quarter economic data is expected to show an impressive acceleration in growth following Q1’s strong rise in gross domestic product....
From Baumeister, Leiva-León, and Sims, “Tracking Weekly State-Level Economic Conditions”: Most studies in this literature have focused on measures of cyclical variation in real activity at...
Wells Unexpectedly Shuts All Existing Personal Lines Of Credit, Hinting US Economy On The Edge Wells Fargo just announced that it's shutting down all of its...
Ford Secures Chips To Finish "Thousands" Of Incomplete F-150 Ford Motor Company has received a new batch of semiconductor chips this month and will be able...
European stocks are sinking lower, reversing gains from the previous session following a weak handover from Asia. While stocks have been on a tear, hitting all-time...
Check out these 3 trending tech stocks in the stock market this week. The post Top Stocks To Buy Now? 3 Tech Stocks For Your Watchlist...
The safest place in Tuesday's trading session was the tech sector.The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) closed a pinch up on the day, while the small-cap Russell...
The U.S. Dollar Index edged down 0.01% to 92.532 The dollar was lower on… The post Dollar lower ahead of Fed’s release of minutes first appeared...
The 10-year Treasury yield fell sharply yesterday, dropping to 1.37% — the lowest since late-February. The ongoing decline offers more support for arguing that the reflation...
Today, we are fortunate to present a guest contribution written by Paweł Skrzypczyński, economist at the National Bank of Poland. The views expressed herein are those of the...
Equities gained in June, but the advance was hesitant at times as markets wondered about the course of US monetary policy and the effects of the...
Persistent Inflation Threatens the Recovery "Our company has had to deal with import delays due to backlogged West Coast ports, higher domestic freight costs, and a...
MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.3%, Taiwan gained 1%, Chinese… The post Asian stocks gain following U.S. jobs data first appeared on...
The dollar's bounce extended further than we expected, helped by an aggressively hawkish view of the Fed, which has seen the market price in more than...
Since When Is A Little Rate Hike Years From Now Hawkish? Via SchiffGold.com, Markets reacted strongly to what many considered “hawkish” messaging coming out of the June...
Capitalism Does Not Equal Corporatism, Part 2 Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In Part-2 of “Capitalism” does not equal “Corporatism,” we delve into why bailouts support corporatism and how to...
In Part-2 of "Capitalism" does not equal "Corporatism," we delve into why bailouts support corporatism and how to fix the system. (Read Part 1 Here -...
The U.S. dollar index advanced to 92.602, the highest since early April The dollar… The post Dollar gains ahead of U.S. payrolls report first appeared on...