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Did anyone else find Senator John Kennedy's comments peculiar regarding New Orleans? pic.twitter.com/ikQ9t8yk2s — Leisha (@LoneStarChica) January 1, 2025 REPORTER: "Are you getting the sense that there is any threat of any other potential attacks tonight on any other major cities?" SEN. KENNEDY: "I can't answer that—I can—but I won't." pic.twitter.com/gkndH3UutT — Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) …
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Reverse repo surges $72BN to $268.7BN for year-end window dressing. Funding market spreads already had blown out to 3 month highs amid spike in repo tightness pic.twitter.com/wyBoMBEPN8 — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 27, 2024 The Federal Reserve's emergency Bank Term Funding Program dropped to $5 billion this week. It'll be $0 in January. pic.twitter.com/md8wCxDkVv — Financelot …
The Fed’s favorite (until it starts rising) inflation indicator – Core PCE – printed cooler than expected for November (+0.1% MoM vs +0.2% MoM exp) which held it steady at +2.8% YoY (below the expected 2.9%) – tied for the highest since April… Source: Bloomberg However, Headline PCE rose to +2.4% from +2.3% – its …
As expected, RRPs are down again, now below $100 billion as Fed's rate cut has reduced incentive to park liquidity at this facility; we'll be seeing repurchase agreements ramping up in the New Year and then the '19 repo crisis may repeat: https://t.co/lboowxcZmU pic.twitter.com/8S4dLXHCjb — E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) December 20, 2024
What have we learned from the market this Fall? There are 2 paths forward for Real Estate and both are painful: 1. Higher rates, stagnant market, layoffs, prices grind flat or down 2. Lower rates that come when the economy collapses, not because the Fed waves a magic wand — Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) December 20, …
The December Philly Fed Manufacturing survey was another disaster, collapsing from -5.5 to -16.4, versus an expected rise to +2.8. This is the weakest level of the year. More problematic, prices paid jumped while prices received fell. All signs point to #stagflation. Sorry, Fed. — Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) December 19, 2024 The markets still don't …
The US government and Federal Reserve inflated cost of living so high that Americans stopped having kids. To avoid running out of slaves, the government didn't make the slaves lives better, they began importing them from other slave camps. — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) December 16, 2024 The Fed has no possible excuse to cut rates …
Most of the US stock market are tech, that has a very high valuation plot from multpl. com pic.twitter.com/YQgSP5LoRy — Data Driven Stocks (@stockdatamarket) December 15, 2024 European Stocks trading at an all-time record discount relative to U.S. Stocks 🚨 https://t.co/MBwckCKVD2 pic.twitter.com/c1nwYFwjLJ — Barchart (@Barchart) December 16, 2024 ZIRP allowed the government to run up …
Federal law enforcement has been manipulating the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) system to gain access to Americans’ financial information without warrants or probable cause , the House Judiciary Committee said Friday. The panel and its Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released its interim report, first obtained by Fox News Digital, which details …
Hard to believe this time line. Interesting nonetheless. h/t Orangutan
Lets not pretend this wasn't on purpose. Here's Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke: "the tools we have involve affecting financial asset prices, and that's, those are the tools of monetary policy." Literally purposeful manipulation stealing from the have-nots to give to the… https://t.co/Yr4oPWYWiL pic.twitter.com/ZFoGrj09ql — Darth Powell (@VladTheInflator) November 18, 2024 Its almost like they …
BREAKING: Federal Reserve’s Reverse Repo fell by $50B to $155B for the first time since 2021. Normally when this money market fund liquidity leaves RRP it goes into U.S. Treasuries, driving yields down. Instead the U.S. 10 year yield rocketed to 4.365% this week. BREAKING: Federal Reserve's Reverse Repo fell by $50B to $155B for …
Food prices have been declining for the last 12 months and lowering inflation. But, if food prices turn, that could significantly impact all economic factors related to inflation, like the FED’s lowering interest rates plan. We check the food price charts and see that food prices could mix up a lot of plan in the …
Kitco News, Released on 10/9/24 Jeremy Szafron, Anchor at Kitco News, interviews E.B. Tucker, Editor of The Tucker Letter, to discuss the Federal Reserve’s influence on the economy and the future of gold. Tucker shares his perspective on the Fed’s role in maintaining economic stability through central management and its impact on market confidence. He …
September @KansasCityFed Manufacturing Index down to -8 vs. -5 est. & -3 prior … new orders slipped to -14 (-12 prior); workweek declined to -15 (-10 prior); production fell to -18 (+6 prior) … employment fell to -11 (-7 prior), taking out improvement in August pic.twitter.com/x0q2QUV1Y3 — Liz Ann Sonders (@LizAnnSonders) September 26, 2024 "There …
The Fed’s emergency 50-point rate cut is a clear sign that inflation is here to stay, and your dollar is losing value. Learn why this could be just the beginning of more economic trouble.
Crypto Chronic – X, Released on 9/16/24 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis refuses to hand Trump shooting suspect Ryan Routh over to the Feds. Routh was arrested by local Florida PD while fleeing on I-95. The FBI has demanded custody of him but DeSantis refused, saying Florida will conduct its own investigation. https://twitter.com/CRYPT0CHR0NIC/status/1835786599386292672/history
Now would be a good time for the old rug pull. h/t Perfect_Alarm_2141
In July 2022, a Los Angeles cop ran a standard records check on an Amazon delivery van she’d spotted and found it had been reported stolen. When she pulled the van over, she discovered five people hiding in its rear cargo area; Investigators would later determine them to be unauthorized immigrants. The operation was run, …
#GOLD price just started to inhaling the negative tendance in US employment, which will probably induce more aggressivity of FED on rate cut. https://t.co/Bayd8BMOQj — constantin savin (@savinfamily) August 21, 2024 Chinese gold buyers are back… China issues new gold import quotas after pause after two-month pause. Several Chinese banks have been given new gold …
It is now one of the unspoken but immutable dictates on Wall Street: with each new banking crisis, the Federal Reserve will quickly create an emergency bailout program and give it a three to four letter abbreviation so that it vanishes into an alphabet soup blur of Fed bailout programs that preceded it. The latest …
by Dismal-Jellyfish TLDRS: Consumer credit increased at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.4 percent during the second quarter. Revolving credit (credit cards) increased at an annual rate of 1.2 percent. Nonrevolving credit increased at an annual rate of 2.9 percent. In June, consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent. Consumer Credit …
Democrats on Friday urged the nation’s central bank to cut interest rates now as the unemployment rate surged. The unemployment rate jumped to 4.3 percent and employers added 114,000 workers to their payrolls in July, a significant miss from economists’ 180,000 expected jobs estimate. As Breitbart News Economics Editor John Carney noted, the significant jump in …
The Fed’s fight against inflation is still not over: Supercore inflation CPI increased by 4.7% year-over-year in June, slightly down from 4.8% in May. Supercore inflation is an important gauge that the Fed follows which includes Core services less housing. Despite the first… pic.twitter.com/iJoeD9yv1z — The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) July 31, 2024 Supercore Inflation: This …
The Fed could slash rates by 200 points over 8 straight meetings as the economy heads for a sharper downtrend, Citi, $C, has said. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) July 15, 2024 FED'S GOOLSBEE: INTEREST-RATE CUTS ARE SOON WARRANTED – WSJ. — FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) July 15, 2024 NY Fed: manufacturing remains in contraction yet again for July …
Yet they are still allowed to do share buybacks and pay dividends with OUR taxpayer dollars. Why this doesn’t infuriate the country I’ll never understand. Just know that this is a giant scam funded by YOU and we do nothing to stop it. Meanwhile most Americans get poorer — QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) July 9, 2024 …
BY DAVID HAGGITH The Fed has stated clearly now that it needs several more months before it will believe inflation is actually falling again, and this article explains clearly why that is. The two major factors that gave a tiny drop in CPI last week were oil and softening housing price increases, removing earlier pressure. …
Federal Reserve Bank Chair Jerome Powell announces that interest rates will remain unchanged during a news conference at the bank’s William McChesney Martin building on May 01, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Federal Reserve is likely to hold interest rates steady in its next decision on Wednesday. It follows a strong jobs report and still-high …
What’s happening now is a troubling shift in the job market. Job openings are being filled as new entrants join the labor force and displaced workers find new positions. However, these job openings are not being replenished, leading to an uptick in the unemployment rate. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to find work, and unless the …