Lowriding! US Personal Savings Lower Than Pre-Covid As Core Inflation Still Hurts At 4.70% YoY (Large Bank Loan Volumes Shrank Last Week As Deposit Outflows Re-Accelerated)

by confoundedinterest17 US personal savings are being exhausted as The Fed raises rates to fight inflation. I call this phenomenon “low riding” where consumers are being punished by The Federal Reserve and Biden Administration. Meanwhile, large bank loan volumes are shrinking. With money-market …

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KJP “Hurts So Good” Presser: Prices UP 16.6% And Real Wages Down -3% Since Biden Took Office (Food UP 56%, Gasoline UP 52%, Mortgage Rates UP 153%) Hurt So Good???

by confoundedinterest17 Biden Press Secretary KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: “The American people are beginning to feel Bidenomics” Prices are up 16.6% and real wages are down 3% since Biden took office. Well, at least Jean-Pierre didn’t claim like her boss Joe Biden claimed …

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Biden’s Mortgage Market! Mortgage Demand Falls 1.8 Since Last Week, Purchase Mortgage Demand Down -49% Since April 2021, Refi Mortgage Demand Down -87% As Mortgage Rates Up 115% (Hurts So Bad?)

by confoundedinterest17 Biden loves to brag about Bidenomics, or should I say selective stats like the labor market. But the mortgage market hurts so bad. Mortgage applications decreased 1.8 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers …

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