What happened? Powell went from cautiously hawkish to openly dovish over the course of a month. We have seen in past that even when interest rates are high it took around 5 years for inflation to go down.

https://twitter.com/TRUMP4USD/status/1735657299811909701 Save this article headline … This is going to be one of those we look back on and laugh at. pic.twitter.com/qJs5C4TwJD — Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) December 15, 2023 *WILLIAMS: WE AREN’T REALLY TALKING ABOUT RATE CUTS RIGHT NOW …

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Ukraine has less than 1 month left

BREAKING: Ukraine aid to run out by year’s end, White House warns READ: https://t.co/aRsXgS1IZa pic.twitter.com/CLlirFIO0l — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 4, 2023 The White House budget chief warned the US Congress on Monday that failure to agree fresh funds for …

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Survey of Consumer Expectations: U.S. households probability of being able to come up with $2,000 if an unexpected need arose within the next month falling to its lowest level since 2013.

Source: https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/sce/credit-access#/financial-fragility1 Wut Mean?: Overall Decline in Consumer Credit Demand (2023): General weakening in most credit application rates. Credit card limit increase applications rose. Rejection Rates Trends: Overall rise in rejection rates for credit applications. Decline in rejection rates for …

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Addicted To Gov? US Added $600 Billion In Debt In One Month And $10.47 TRILLION Since Covid Outbreak, Credit Card APR Now 28.93% As Credit Card Debt Exceeds $1 TRILLION, Family Healthcare Costs Surge 7% To $24,000, Q3 Real GDP Rises 4.9%

by confoundedinterest17 Bidenomics new theme song is “Addicted To Gov.” Bidenomics needs lots of Federal spending and borrowing to survive. But all this spending and borrowing is causing rapid price increases and other distortions. The US Federal government just added $600 billion …

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China property crisis: Country Garden faces reckoning, faces fresh debt payments, could announce restructuring soon. The developer, which missed two dollar interest payments last month, has two coupons totaling $66.8 million coming due on Oct 09…

by waitingonawait Friend thinks this will be a nuke to the economy. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-developer-country-garden-faces-fresh-offshore-payments-deadline-2023-10-09/ HONG KONG, Oct 9 (Reuters) – China’s Country Garden (2007.HK) may announce a restructuring plan for its offshore debt soon, local media reported on Monday, as the country’s largest …

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September 2023 marks the least affordable month for U.S. housing this century, surpassing the record set just a month prior in August 2023.

This century meaning since 2000. The early 80s were, according to most housing affordability metrics, worse than this. — Lance Lambert (@NewsLambert) September 27, 2023 Homes ‘unaffordable’ in 99% of nation for average American… The typical American cannot afford to …

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Mark Milley resigns end of month

The Pentagon’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, is set to retire at September’s end. Whatever credit he deserves for serving the inharmonious presidencies of Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden and backing material support for …

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