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The Fed is losing money, currently $120 billion since 2022. They can't send profits to the US Treasury until they earn those losses back. The last line is hilarious.🤣 "The Fed has stressed that losing money in no way impacts its ability to operate and conduct monetary policy." https://t.co/FlNjxjGBNL — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) November …
Retailers across New York state say there’s no end in sight to the rising epidemic of organized shoplifting rings — and warn it could lead to more store closures, increased costs for consumers and threats of violence against store employees. Store owners said they lost $4.4 billion last year as a result of retail theft …
by confoundedinterest17 Biden’s terrible economic policies and horrid fiscal managment has put stress on The Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve paid an estimated $76 billion to the Treasury in 2022 while banks’ willingness to lend has plummeted. First, let’s look at Biden’s and The Fed’s Brawndo. One of the key ways central banks absorb liquidity back out of …
by Chris Black It’s funny to talk about how Trudeau supports “just going ahead and killing everyone.” But this is… wow. It’s hard to grasp. These are unbelievable numbers. Unherd: Last year 4.1% of all deaths in Canada were due to MAiD (medical assistance in dying), according to the country’s health ministry. This amounts to …
They’re California dreamin’ — of somewhere else to live. The nation’s exemplar of liberal governance continued to shed residents at a dizzying pace in 2022, with 817,000 Golden Staters moving to other states — including 150,000 to red regions like Texas and Florida, according to Census figures released last week. With 475,000 people moving in, …
I recognize the difference between incompetence and intentional but this is starting to exceed the intentional parameters and go full retard incompetence. I mean how much do you have to print, lie, cheat, and steal until you get a collapse and at what point have you just failed incompetently unable to bring about your precious …
by Chris Black The easiest solution to dealing with the loneliness and soul-crushing alienation caused by modern utopian society is to die of a fentanyl overdose. Dying from a drug overdose is a solution to the biggest challenges we face every day as a result of living in a utopia. ABC News: The overdose crisis …
by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/fda_documents/2020067139101%20Instinet%2C%20LLC%2C%20CRD%207897%20AWC%20gg.pdf STILL NOT COMPLETE!!! Wut Mean?: Instinet was mandated to start reporting order data to the CAT Central Repository from June 22, 2020. Instinet hired a third-party vendor for CAT reporting, but their internal data specifications were inadequate for proper CAT-format reporting. In June 2020, Instinet informed FINRA that they foresaw CAT reporting …
The Fed has been clear that 2% is their inflation target. Now, we have inflation rising again and hovering near the 3% mark. Will the Fed raise their inflation target or will they finally get it under control? Follow us @KobeissiLetter for real time analysis as this develops. — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) August 10, …
European Natural gas prices just spiked 40% today ALONE. This is the biggest daily increase since March 2022. A long-lasting worker strike is likely to limit supply, Citigroup estimates EU natural gas prices could double. The never-ending fight against inflation continues. pic.twitter.com/RqTHNCE203 — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) August 9, 2023
by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics, the term for “Government Gone Wild! in terms of spending and EPA regulations, is a disaster for the US middle class and low wage workers. Even the 1% are now hurting if bought into Biden’s green lunacy. Ford is now down -48% since January 14, 2022 as The Fed started raising rates …
by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/key-topics/margin-accounts/margin-statistics Source: https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/margin-statistics.xlsx Wut mean?: According to FINRA Rule 4521(d), FINRA member firms with customer margin accounts must report by the last business day of each month: Total debit balances in securities margin accounts. Total free credit balances in all cash and securities margin accounts. Debit Balances in Customers’ Securities Margin Accounts increased: …
BREAKING: Joe Biden, who is currently facing intense congressional scrutiny for allegedly accepting a $10 million bribe from a Ukrainian oligarch as VP, just approved another $400 million to Ukraine. This is the 43rd approved aide package from the US to Ukraine since Feb 2022. — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 24, 2023
USD has just closed its lowest weekly candle since April 2022 With the break of key support and a bearish MACD cross, downward momentum looks dominant pic.twitter.com/Y7OhawkHjX — Bravos Research (@bravosresearch) July 18, 2023 2-year Treasury yield and USD have significantly diverged Signaling that the Fed has mattered less to the Dollar in 2023 pic.twitter.com/CFsDKmAvYv …
by confoundedinterest17 So far, President Biden has drained almost 50% of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) under his Reign of Error. And regular gasoline prices are up 48% since Biden assumed the Presidency on Jan 20, 2021. We have massive caverns for oil storage that are sitting empty. Then we have the US Dollar, down -12.5% …
by Chris Black Wow, no one could have predicted this. Following the BLM social experiment, every American city is becoming Gotham City. Real dystopian hellscape vibe. The Post Millennial: A new report shows that murders reached an all-time high in Washington state in 2022. There were a reported 394 statewide murders last year, which is a 16.6 …
by confoundedinterest17 I am anxiously waiting for the US inflation report tomorrow, so I am just looking at the US Treasury yield curve, mortgage rates and cryptos today. The US Treasury 10Y-2Y yield curve stumbled (just like Biden and Bidenomics) to -91.166 basis points as the turnaround in M2 Money growth has stalled. Bankrate’s 30Y …
Large Banks Experience Record $921B Deposit Drain in 40 Years, Outpacing Small Banks’ Decline Data from the Federal Reserve reveals that large banks in the U.S. are experiencing the fastest decline in deposits in four decades. Since April 2022, deposits at the 25 largest commercial banks have plummeted by $921 billion, a decline of 7.88 …
Congressional Insider Trading in 2022: Using Inside Knowledge to Make Profits by u/TonyLiberty in stocks
Seems like you are the problem if you cant address and correct your number priority in 20 years. https://twitter.com/thekevindalton/status/1675250179220574208?s=46&t=z4S3SbHryFIVFQgblrJk4Q And remember, when was in charge of San Fran he gave the homeless bus tickets to go out of town, to any town but his. h/t labbond
by Chris Black Why is this only being made public now? Remember back in April of last year the Russian’s ‘retreated’ from Kiev and this was hailed as a Ukrainian victory? Well, it turns out that was a gesture of Russian goodwill as part of a neutrality agreement. Yesterday Putin revealed an extremely important piece …
by BoatSurfer600 It’s turning into a banner year for corporate bankruptcy filings, after years of Easy Money that caused all kinds of excesses, fueled by yield-chasing investors, in an environment where the Fed had repressed yields with all its might. Those yield-chasing investors kept even the most over-indebted zombies supplied with ever-more fresh money. But …
by BoatSurfer600 https://kingworldnews.com/tick-tock-gold-price-will-be-unleashed-to-a-new-all-time-high/ The gold price already seems to anticipate that the restrictive US monetary policy will turn out to be a bluff. Even if the gold price in US dollars has not yet marked a new all-time high, the all-time highs in various other currencies are a harbinger of the breakout in US dollars …
by Dismal-Jellyfish https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2023/34-97632.pdf Source: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2023/34-97632.pdf In the Order, the Commission found that BBPLC failed to put into place any internal control around the real-time tracking of securities being offered or sold off of its Commission-registered shelf registration statements. As a result of this failure, between June 26, 2019 and March 9, 2022, BBPLC offered and sold an …
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, 2022 But on average Mortgage Lending Standards are just as bad by the two most …