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Gov Gone Wild! Wild Federal Spending, Massive Deficits And Soaring Interest Payments On Debt Requires More Fed Intervention (Bidenomics At Work!)

by confoundedinterest17 The US Fiscal position is very bad and the US is beginning to look like  a third world economy.  And with Biden and Democrat AGs filing indictments against Biden primary Presidential oppoonent, that country is Venezeula! Like skyrocketing interest on the Federal debt to pay for green energy hustlers and the Ukraine war. …

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Bidenomics! Biden Blames USA Downgrade On Trump (But Economy Added 12.53 Million Jobs After Covid Shutdowns Ended Under Trump While It Took 2 1/2 Years For Bidenomics To Add 12.56 Million Jobs)

by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics is where the Attorney General Garland gives Hunter Biden blanket amnesty and arrests Biden’s Presidential opponent. Welcome to the United Venezuelan States of America!e The new regime talking points are out – namely that Fitch downgraded the US credit rating from AAA  to AA+ on Tuesday because of MAGA Republicans and all …

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Bidenomics! Mortgage Demand Decreases 3.0% From One Week Earlier, But Purchase Demand Down 26% From Last Year, Down -45% Under Biden While Mortgage Rates Are UP 134% (US Interest Expenses Surged By 50% In Past Year To Nearly $1 Trillion On Annualized Basis)

by confoundedinterest17 Inflation under Biden has been very painful for the US middle class and low wage workers. That inflation has resulted to surging mortgage rates thanks to The Fed’s counterattack. The result? Mortgage rates are up 134% under Bidenomics, while mortgage purchase demand is down -45% since Biden was selected. And mortgage refinancing demand …

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Home Bidenomics! Wheels Come Off The “Strong Jobs” Myth As Job Openings Drop To 2 year Low (Number Of Hires And Quits Plunge As Fed Withdraws Monetary Stimulus)

by confoundedinterest17 The wheels are coming off the Bidenomics recovery. US job openings (JOLTS) keep declining as The Fed withdraws its Covid sugar splash of monetary stimulus and raise The Fed’s target rate. For those enthralled by the narrative that AI will cause a margin-busting corporate revolution as millions of well-paid, middle-management employees are replaced …

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Bidenomics (Or Yellenomics)! Real Weekly Earnings For Men LOWER Under Biden Than Jimmy Carter! (Men’s Real Weekly Earnings DOWN -9% Since Q2 2021 While M2 Money UP 31%)

by confoundedinterest17 President Jimmy Carter is usually the bar for terrible Presidents. Under Carter, the US experienced economic stagnation and soaring inflation. At least it led to the election of Ronald Regan! So, Biden’s much mentioned Bidenomics have produced REAL MEDIAN WEEKLY EARNINGS FOR MEN that is currently below 1979 levels under Jimmy Carter. Even …

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Bidenomics? C&I Lending Growth Crashes Along With Bank Credit Growth (WTI Crude Oil UP 1% This Morning) 30-year Mortgage Rates At 7.27%

by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics, aka the Federal government takeover of the US economy with Soviet-style economic central planning, is highly dependent on loose Federal Reserve monetary policy (Janet Yellen and Powell’s wild overreaction to the massively inappropriate Covid shutdowns), So, how is Bidenomics working out? On the bank lending front, commercial and industrial (C&I) lending growth …

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Why US Inflation Will Start Rising Again (WTI Crude Futures UP Above $80 Again As Gasoline Futures UP 91.5% Under Bidenomics)

by confoundedinterest17 Joe Biden said that Republicans will impeach him in the House of Representatives since inflation is coming down. Huh? No Joe, it is because your are the most corrupt President in history, a compulsive liar and your economic policies are pure World Economic Forum mandates (open borders, Central Bank Digital currency, green energy, …

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Bidenomics In One Chart! Bidenomics Benefits The Elites (Top 1%) Far More Than The Common Man (Bottom 50%) In Terms Of Net Worth (Bank Credit Growth Crashing To Earth)

by confoundedinterest17 I wanted to play Aaron Copland’s Fanfare For The Common Man, but thought that The Federal Reserve theme song (laughing song from “Death in Venice”) was more appropriate given their insane money printing since 2008 then 2020 with Covid. Yes, The Fed is laughing at us. Bidenomics, massive spending on green energy mandates while curbing fossil …

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Bidenomics At Work! US Pending Home Sales Crash -14.8% YoY As Fed Pushes Rates Up, Negative Growth For 24 Of Last 25 Months (Is Fed Chair Powell Actually Mr. Freeze?)

by confoundedinterest17 The Biden Administration is gushing about Q2’s Real GDP report of 2.4% QoQ. Wow, after trillions of dollars of stimulus spending and The Fed going wild with monetary stimulus, all we got was 2.4% growth?? But let’s turn the cameras on the housing market. Pending home sales crashed -14.8% YoY in June. Is …

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Bidenomics? Orange Juice Futures UP 192% Under Biden, Frozen OJ Up 40% Under Biden’s Reign Of Error (Even Fed Printing Debacle Can’t Fix This Problem)

by confoundedinterest17 I love orange juice! Unfortnately, as a diabetic, OJ is off limits. So I have to watch others drink one of my favorite beverages. But like everything else under Bidenomics, orange juice is far more expensive. Orange juice futures, the subject of the comedy “Trading Places,” are up 192% under Biden’s Reign of (Economic) Error. …

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Case-Shiller National Home Price Index Slows To -0.46% YoY As Fed Withdraws Covid Stimulus SLOWLY (Mortgage Rates UP 151% Under Bidenomics, Taylor Rule Suggests Fed Rate Of 10.42%)

by confoundedinterest17 The Case-Shiller home price numbers are out for May. The national home price index is down -0.46% YoY as The Fed slows M2 Money growth into negative growth territory. No doubt Biden (and Karine Jean-Pierre) will take credit for slowing home price growth, although The Federal Reserve slowing monetary stimulus is mostly responsible. …

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Bidenomics Or How Washington Ruined America’s Future: Interest on Federal Debt Rose 76% Under Biden (US Interest On Federal Debt > 6x EU Defense Spending As Unfunded US Liabilities Exceed $192 TRILLION!)

by confoundedinterest17 How badly has Bidenomics and generally Federal spending has crippled the US? An example. The interest on US Federal debt is approaching $1 TRILLION (and Biden/Democrats REFUSE to cut any spending, not that Republicans are much better). To show up how messed up this is, the EU’s defense budget (remember Ukraine?) is far …

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Bidenomics? Since January 2021, Regular Gasoline Prices Up 57% Under Biden, CRB Foodstuffs Up 55% As Strategic Petroleum Reserves DOWN -46% (10Y-2Y Treasury Curve Inverts To -102.45)

by confoundedinterest17 Jared Bernstein was VP Joe Biden’s former Chief Economist and is now chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. Pretty impressive! Except that Bernstein is not really an economist. He has a PhD in social welfare from Columbia University. In other words, Bernstein is a Progressive Marxist cheerleader, not a real …

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Summer Of Strikes? 650,000 American Workers Threaten To Walk Off Job (Bidenomics On Parade!)

by confoundedinterest17 Joe Biden loves to tout “Bidenomics” which is a top-down command economy model with massive Federal spending directed primarily at green energy. But remember that a pillar of Bidenomics is support for labor unions. But “Union Joe” will be remembered as “Inflation Joe” as inflation remains hot. But now the labor unions are …

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Bidenomics, Born Under A Bad Sign! US Treasury Yield Curve (10Y-2Y) Inverts To Under -100 BPS Again (Nickel UP 1.78%, Dogecoin UP 5.58%)

by confoundedinterest17 I have never seen anything like this. The US Treasury 10Y-2Y yield curve is deep in inversion and has had a negative slope for 265 straight days. Bidenomics is born under a bad sign! On the commodities front, heating oil is up almost 2% this morning and nickel (an important element in Biden’s green …

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Bidenomics? Existing Home Sales Crash -19% YoY In June, 23rd Straight Month Of Negative Growth (Median Price Falls To -1.16% YoY) Inventory For Sale STILL MIA

by confoundedinterest17 Wasting away again with Bidenomics. US existing home sales crashed by -19% in June, the 23rd consecutive month of declines. At least the median price of existing home sales is decreasing as Fed stimultypto vanishes. Just like inventory for sale has vanished. The face of Bidenomics, code for Federal government reckless green spending. …

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Massive US Oil Caverns Sit Empty in Threat to Energy Security (Biden Has Drained 46% Of Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Gasoline Prices UP 48% Under Bidenomics, US Dollar Down -12.5% Since September 2022)

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% …

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Used Electric Vehicle Prices Crashing As Fed Pushes Auto Loan Rates Above 7% (60M Auto Loan Rates Up 74.4% Under Bidenomics)

by confoundedinterest17 Yes, one of the cornerstones of Bidenomics is the massive expansion of (impractical) electric vehicles (or EVs). You know, those mondo expensive cars that run out of power after a couple of hundred miles requiring a lengthy recharge (kind of makes long distance trips the domain of Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) cars. But …

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Bidenomics! Nationwide Spike In Family Homelessness, UP 37.6% YoY (NYC Homeless Rate UP 66.4% YoY, Chicago UP 82.2%!)

by confoundedinterest17 Wasting away again in Bidenville, looking for my lost economy. In June, the White House revealed a new public relations campaign called “Bidenomics” to define President Biden’s economic agenda ahead of the 2024 presidential election cycle.  “I don’t know what the hell that is, but it’s working,” Biden stated at a June 17 …

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US Mortgage Purchase Demand Drops -19% From Previous Week As Mortgage Rates Top 7% (Down -53% Under Bidenomics, Rates Up 138%) Strongly Recommend “Sound Of Freedom”

by confoundedinterest17 As Bidenomics (why Biden would brag about massive inflation in energy, food and shelter is beyond me), lurches forward, we have another shred of lousy economic news: US mortgage purchase demand fell -19% from the previous week and is how down -53% under Bidenomics). Mortgage applications increased 0.9 percent from one week earlier, …

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US Treasury 10Y-2Y Yield Curve Stumbles To -91.166 BPS As 30Y Mortgage Rates Climb To 7.37% (30Y Mortgage Rate UP 156% Under Bidenomics) Since November 3, 2022, US Dollar Index DOWN -9.68%, Gold UP 18.55%, Bitcoin UP 51.11%!

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 …

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Bidenomics! Bank Credit Slows To 0.5% YoY, Lowest Since 2011 As Fed Hikes To Fight Bidenflation (41+ Countries Sign On For BRICs Gold Standard)

by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics relied of massive Federal spending thanks to Covid and massive monetary expansion. This led to the highest inflation in 40 years (Bidenflation). But now The Fed is slowing M2 Money growth into negative territory and hiking their target rate. The result? Bank credit growth has crashed to 0.5% YoY. In other words, …

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Bidenomics In 3 Charts! Share of Total Net Worth Held by the Top 1% Near All-time High, 25 Straight Months Of NEGATIVE Real Wage Growth, 3 Straight Quarters Of NEGATIVE Net Worth Growth

by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics, which Bumbling Biden can’t explain, and his Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre only utters “top down was a failure, we are trying the opposite!” Sorry Karine, Bidenomics personifies top down economic (mis)management where DC picks winners and losers as opposed to the free market. Under Biden’s corrupt administation, it is more like …

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Livin’ La Vida Biden! Bankrate’s 60 Month Auto Loan Rate Up To 7.65%, Up 166% Under Bidenomics (Only Getting Worse As Powell Vows More Rate Hikes)

by confoundedinterest17 Livin’ la vida Biden! The Biden Administration has got a line on you! Unfortunately that line is choking America’s middle class and low wages workers with inflation and rising interest rates. Auto loan rates are now up to 7.65%, a gut-wrenching 166% increase under Bidenomics. Average monthly payments also reached a new record of …

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Biden Drains Strategic Petroleum Reserve For 14th Straight Week (SPR Down -46% Under Bidenomics, Reg Gas Price UP 48%, Diesel Fuel UP 47%) Hunter In The West Wing With A Straw!

by confoundedinterest17 What is Bidenomics? It isn’t what Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre thinks. She said Biden hates “trick down economics”. Instead, Biden prefers a Soviet-style command economy where The Federal Government spends trillions of dollars and directs where the money goes. We also have the Socialist Federal Reserve that relies on rate manipulation to …

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US Mortgage Purchase Demand Down -42.3% Under Bidenomics, Mortgage Refi Demand Down -91%, Mortgage Rates UP 131% (As Liquidity Dries Up)

by confoundedinterest17 Joe Biden, or “Blow Biden” after the cocaine was discovered in the White House the other day, owns the abysmal mortgage and housing market thanks to The Fed fighting inflation caused by Bidenomics (massive Federal spending and massive Fed stimulus). Mortgage applications decreased 4.4 percent from one week earlier, according to data from …

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Bidenomics? US Bank Credit Growth Approaches Stall Speed (0.7% YoY) As M2 Money Growth Reverses Course, But Still Negative Growth At -4% YoY (Biden Contemplates Blocking The Sun To Prevent Global Warming!)

by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics is based on massive Federal spending and massive Fed monetary stimulus. But like all stimulus, it wears off. Such is the case with bank lending as The Fed raises interest rates. US bank credit year-over-year (YoY) has stalled to a lowly 0.7% rate as M2 Money growth YoY increases slightly to -4%. …

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