Watch Live: Powell, Yellen Tell Congress Economic Recovery Has A Long Way To Go Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's whirlwind week of public appearances and monetary policy...
Inflation is topical again. The crowd is becoming increasingly concerned that a combination of factors, including ramped-up fiscal spending and ongoing monetary stimulus, will conspire to...
"Going To Get Ugly" - Global Plastic Shortage Triggered By Texas Deep Freeze The cold snap that shut down oil fields and refineries across Texas last month...
ECB Finally Ramps Up Bond Purchases After Pledging To Fight Rising Yields After three weeks of consecutive disappointments from the ECB (see here and here), when...
Oil extends losses on lockdown concerns Oil prices resumed the sell-off on Monday, building on last week’s steep losses amid growing concerns over future demand as...
Concerns over Germany extending lockdown restrictions, the UK pushing out its travel ban combined with the tanking Turkish lira set European bourses off on the back...
The New Zealand dollar has kicked off the new trading week with slight gains. Currently, NZD/USD is trading at 0.7182, up 0.33% on the day. NZ...
Futures Rebound Despite Turkey Slaughter Global markets, bond yields slid and the Turkish lira plunged towards a record low against on Monday after President Tayyip Erdogan...
Since the "Financial Crisis," the hope was that inflating asset prices would trickle down into economic growth. Unfortunately, after a decade of monetary interventions and artificially...
Headed For A Collapsing Debt Bubble Authored by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog, A $1.9 trillion stimulus package was recently signed into law in...
The Fed's Dot Game: "Something Missing" Submitted by Joseph Carson, former chief economist at Alliance Bernstein The Federal Reserve members' updated projections at the March 16-17...
Cornered: Powell Can't Raise Rates As Economy Remains On Life-Support Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Last week, we stated: “With valuations still extended, the recent...
Republicans Greet Covid Stimulus with Another Round of Inflation Fearmongering Their cry-wolf act is well practiced but lacks credibility. Bruce Bartlett, TNR, March 15, 2021 ...
The broader market averages fell this week, as long-term interest rates continued to press higher. Energy stocks led the way lower, while more defensive sectors managed...
Gross Profits For House Flippers Hits Record As Fed Turbocharges Real Estate Bubble The housing boom unleashed by the Federal Reserve during the virus pandemic was...
Printing Money In The Age Of COVID Via AustrianCenter.com, The coronavirus has dominated all of our lives in recent months. Radical paths were taken by politicians...
Powell Can't Raise Rates As Economy Remains On Life-Support
The major central banks have met. The general message is that continued strong monetary support remains necessary, and the coming increase in price pressures is likely...
Quick questions: who said the following, and when did this person say this? Our own country has tried one economic theory after another. The present Administration...
[This article is part of the Understanding Money Mechanics series, by Robert P. Murphy. The series will be published as a book in 2021.] In chapter 10 we...
Gold Versus The Stock Market Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, More than 3,000 years ago in the early 12th century BC, Greco-Roman legend tells us...
Crude is key to inflation. Here's why has it been going up so much.
The UK has full confidence in the AstraZeneca vaccine and expects a strong recovery in the economy as the process progresses and the market opens
Fed Disappoints Market, Lets SLR Relief Expire: What Happens Next As was hinted at, and discussed in depth here, the Fed decided - under political pressure...
Our Dead Money Economy Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The U.S. stock and bond markets and its entire financial system now teeter on...
Reading Between the Lines On Wednesday, Jerome Powell was able to deliver a statement that reflected his being in the top job at... Read More... The...
Facing Up To JP Morgan's Leverage Relief Threats By Nick Dunbar of Risky Finance There is one very simple rule of banking. If you increase leverage,...
The Australian dollar has posted slight losses in the Thursday session. Currently, the pair is trading at 0.7780, down 0.20% on the day. Australian employment sparkles...
The US dollar bounced back from Wednesday’s loss, rallying on concerns in the broader financial markets and economy following the latest initial jobless claims. The greenback also jumped on the bump in Treasury yields, with investors...
The US economy remains on track to report an unusually strong increase in output for next month’s first-quarter report on gross domestic product (GDP)