The S&P 500 index pared intraday gains over the past hour after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced its first rate hike since the start of the...
Fed Announes Hawkish 25bps Rate Hike, Signals Hikes At Every 2022 Meeting As Bullard Dissents A little background: By now, enough has been...
FOMC Preview: The First Rate Hike Since 2018 Central banks face a challenging trade-off: do they react to the labor market close to full employment...
Markets Sometimes Do The Work That Armies Can't Via Global Macro Monitor, The instant immiseration of a big economy [by sanctions] is unprecedented...
#CKStrong The instant immiseration of a big economy [by sanctions] is unprecedented and will cause alarm around the world, not least in China, which will...
Five agricultural investments to buy in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine should benefit from newly announced...
What Is Quantitative Easing in Simple Terms?In modern finance, when the economy hits a rough patch, central banks often come to the rescue with emergency...
FOMC Minutes Show Fed To Rush Rate-Hikes, Leaves QT Details Up In The Air Since the Jan 26th FOMC meeting, bonds have been a bloodbath while...
Goldman Sees "Risk" Of Fed Rate Hike At Every Meeting, Predicts $2.5 Trillion In Balance Sheet Shrinkage An interesting dynamic has emerged on Wall Street: on...
The Federal Reserve Is A Money-Making Enterprise Via SchiffGold.com, The Federal Reserve is a money-making enterprise. This probably shouldn’t come as any surprise, given that the...
Stocks Vs. Bonds - What Could Go Wrong? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Stocks are priced for perfection. Bonds trade at historically low yields despite...
Stocks are priced for perfection. Bonds trade at historically low yields despite 7% inflation. What could go wrong? As fiscal and monetary support for the economy...
Millions Of American Households Face $3,500 Additional Expenses This Year As Inflation Soars Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Surging inflation will cost...
This post presents an update of the economic forecasts generated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model. We describe...
The U.S. Wall Street indices are continuing up even after the Federal Reserve said it will go on the offensive to combat inflation. Federal Reserve to...
A month of ups and downs that ended down November started well on the back of good corporate results. Despite lingering concerns over inflation and the...
Even as it eyes accelerating tapering, the Fed continues to replace maturing assets in its $2.6 trillion mortgage-backed securities portfolio The post Fed pulling back from...
In March 2020, U.S. dollar-denominated prime money market funds (MMFs) suffered heavy outflows as concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic increased in the United States and Europe....
I'm working madly to finish The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level. This is a draft of Chapter 21, on how to think about today's emerging...
FOMC Minutes Show The Fed Fears Stagflation, Suggest Taper Pace Could Accelerate FOMC Minutes Summary: Inflation just doesn't seem to be dissipating even as the labor...
The Fed's Artificially Low Interest Rates Are Eating Away At Social Security Via SchiffGold.com, The Federal Reserve has held interest rates artificially low for decades. This causes all...
"Increased borrowing must be matched by increased ability to repay. Otherwise, we aren't expanding the economy – we're merely puffing it up." – Henry Alexander of...
What happened to gold in Q3 2021? Our gold price update outlines key market developments and explores what could happen moving forward. The post Gold Price...
Futures Flat As Yields, Dollar Slide On Speculation Demo-Dove Brainard Will Replace Powell For the second session in a row, S&P 500 futures reversed earlier losses...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ October jobs report, released November 5, provides generally positive news with total nonfarm payroll employment increasing by 531,000 compared to an...
FOMC Launches $15BN Taper, Reiterates Inflation 'Transitory', No Rate HIke Discussion Since the last FOMC statement (and press conference) on Sept 22nd, when the 't-word' was...
$250 Billion Fund CIO Blasts Washington's 'Soviet-Style' Central Planning: "Disassociating Demand From Supply In Fundamental Ways" Authored by Tad Rivelle, CIO at TCW, Back In The...
Fed's Quarles Warns Additional Government Spending Could Lead To Extended Period Of Transitory Inflation Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, Federal Reserve Gov. Randal Quarles...
#CKStrong Carol K.’s ANC broke above 1200 today. Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC ) measures a type of white blood cell that kill and digest bacteria...
Bitcoin & The US Fiscal Reckoning Authored by Avik Roy via NationalAffairs.com, Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin have few fans in Washington. At a July congressional hearing, Senator...