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by confoundedinterest17 Don’t kid yourself. The talking heads at The Federal Reserve (more like Feral Reserve) are only about halfway there in terms of rate hikes. There is still over $8 trillion in monetary stimulus sloshing around the economy. The Taylor Rule implies a target rate of 10.12% while the current target rate is just over half …
by DesmondMilesDant What is going on here at the Non-Farm payrolls report? Let me confuse you from something in 2008. According to the most recent jobs report, nonfarm payrolls increased by 339 thousand in January. This is good news for …
by confoundedinterest17 The May jobs report is out and, under normal circumstances, would led The Fed to raise rates. But these are not normal times, my friends. The US economy (allegedly) added 339k jobs in May. That is the good news. The not-so-good news? …
The US will need to refinance almost half of its national debt in less than 2 years. Let's not forget that interest rates were at 0% just 15 months ago. Wait until these debt instruments need to be rolled over …
by Michael If farmers and ranchers don’t produce enough food, we don’t eat. So we should always be very thankful for our hard working farmers and ranchers. Unfortunately, farms and ranches all over the United States have been hit by a string of disasters …
Something massive changed in the last few months. Americans are now MUCH more strongly in favor of banning transgender treatment for minors.@AnheuserBusch @Target do you have any theories? https://t.co/Lg6dLOzB0g pic.twitter.com/rw5fUzBTWg — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) June 1, 2023 🤡🌎 pic.twitter.com/NDggZL94l9 — …
44% DEMS For RFK Jr, 30% Choose Marianne Williamson When Biden Is NOT Factored IN: POLL h/t No holds barred
The Fed sponsored a $multi-trillion carry trade. Tech is 90% correlated to the $USDJPY – most since March 2020. Unwinding this will be a disaster. Said the ECB. Today:https://t.co/PGl3PLGtCp pic.twitter.com/FqGtNPykwx — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) June 1, 2023 The Nasdaq 100 Index …
https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1663795870142169089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw By the Numbers: Bill and Melinda Gates rank as WHO organization’s 2nd biggest donor The U.S. funds more than 20% of the WHO’s budget and was the organization’s largest donor before President Trump announced he would be halting any …
BREAKING REPORT: Minnesota to provide illegal immigrants with FREE COLLLEGE TUITION, program will kick off at the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year.. — Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) June 1, 2023 Informative Comments follow: Nick @NicInRealLife2 Get out of Democrat states. …
Everyone's talking about how the U.S just hit $1 trillion in total credit card debt But what's more concerning: That number has increased by +$250 billion in just 2 years This doesn't end well pic.twitter.com/LK7oUrne2D — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) …
by BoatSurfer600 A CULTURE-WAR RECKONING FOR CORPORATE AMERICA: A headline in New York magazine laments, “Bud Light, Target, and a New Era of Corporate Caution.” A new era of corporate caution? Don’t threaten me with a good time. Imagine a beer company that …
by confoundedinterest17 So much for Biden’s “miracle economy.” Challenger jobs cuts report is out for May and job cuts soared 286.7% year-over-year (YoY). As M2 Money growth crashes.
A new peer reviewed quantitative study published in Current Psychology finds evidence that far-left extremism is a predictor of violent, psychopathic tendencies & narcissism. Naturally, extreme leftist movements draw in such types who welcome violence.https://t.co/1ndBIYyHhn — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May …
White House refuses to address the fact that today the majority of Americans believe the President himself is corrupt. pic.twitter.com/ly2a6uiIH5 — @amuse (@amuse) May 31, 2023 ‘Wow!’ Stunned John Kirby Stammers Out a Denial and Leaves Podium after White …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsJo-iqhgNQ 90% of Americans say that owning a home is a key part of the American dream. But today, more than half of them believe they will never own their dream home, and about 70% of U.S. households can’t afford …
Wall Street Investors have officially abandoned the Housing Market. With Redfin reporting a colossal 49% crash in investor purchases in Q1 2023. This is the biggest annual decline on record. Even bigger than the drop that occurred in 2005 right …
RELAX everything’s going to be fine, if there was ANY chance of collapse all the “experts” on the main collapse subreddit would be all over this. /s via realclearmarkets: “In purely technical terms, all these together are betting heavily on …
by okie1 New data just came in. Use of fed’s liquidity facilities declined again: View post on imgur.com This is where the money was coming from to create the demand for T bills, which is what was bringing rates down …
by TheNewbieInvestor Everytime this happened, the Fed pivoted 2-year yield has now moved below the Fed funds rate pic.twitter.com/8fsrsDToh2 — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) March 17, 2023 Looks like my hunch was correct. This tweet was from Thursday, the day before #SVB …
“We need to keep raising rates until something breaks and inflation eases” <Something breaks> “Wait wait no, not that thing.” It’s very important that inflation is brought into check by poor people losing their jobs. Not rich people losing their deposits. NEW …
Fed Loaned $160 Billion to Banks and $142 billion to FDIC. But QT-Related Roll-off Continued At around 4.75%, plus collateral, these are expensive loans for banks. The Fed’s Discount Window Soared to Its Highest Level Since the Previous Financial …
🚨#BREAKING: Signature Bank, has been closed by State authorities. — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 12, 2023 Regulators closed New York’s Signature Bank, citing systemic risk. Signature is one of the main banks …
Another Bank specializing in Tech loans and services for “High Net Worth Individuals”, but more of a Public bank than SVB was. The cashless society people really want that cash! https://twitter.com/_/status/1634783756656492544 https://twitter.com/_/status/1634790617627914240 View post on imgur.com Contagion has already spread. …
via benzinga: PacWest Bancorp shares are trading lower by 28.61% to $14.20 Friday morning. The stock is sharply lower as shares of several regional banks and financial institutions sell off on downward momentum after SVB Financial Group Wednesday announced a …
As long as they can fill in more money they won’t have to take any losses. Ohh wait, what happened to SVB. Translate for Retails… Unrealized gains or losses on investment securities refer to the changes in the value of …
SVB works with literally like half of all US VC-backed startups, and is similarly popular for their banking services in the UK and wider Europe. If they find they’ve lost any significant portion of their funding then we’re going to …
by Infamous_Sympathy_91
And it's not just Downpayments. Average Debt to Income Ratios today are comparable to mid-2000s. Meaning that homebuyer incomes, on average, are just as stretched in their ability to afford the mortgage payments. pic.twitter.com/3wIVJvidCS — Nick Gerli (@nickgerli1) August 14, …
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1558940610421174272 Switzerland: The country's energy situation is serious and we have requested supplies from Germany and Italy. — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) August 14, 2022 United Kingdom annual inflation June, 2020: 0.6% June, 2021: 2.5% June, 2022: 9.4% — The Spectator Index …