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“US market liquidity STRESS is surging again: Banks’ demand for the Fed’s Standing Repo Facility (SRF) hit $14 BILLION this morning, and $11 BILLION on Tuesday, the highest since October, signaling rising pressures inside the short-term funding system. As a reminder, the SRF lets banks to borrow CASH directly from the Fed by pledging US …
by confoundedinterest17 New USDA data reveals a third consecutive week of price declines at supermarkets. But the media is always willing to blame Trump for anything, including eggs prices. Velocity of M2 Money is back to where is was when Trump left office the first time. Eggs versus M2 Money. Riding the Trump wave of …
by confoundedinterest17 The Hollies said it best: Stop, stop, stop. FIAT Money Printing that is. Typically, we look at M2 Money Velocity (GDP/M2) as a measure of how much the economy grows by expanding the money supply. M2 Money Velocity is currently at 1.344, and still below where we were under Trump prior to Covid. After Powell …
by confoundedinterest17 I wonder which season the US economy is in, according to President “Chance the Gardener” Biden. If you believe the recovery talk (from the reckless Covid economic and school shutdowns of 2020), all is well in the (economic) garden. For example, M2 Money Velocity (GDP/M2), is almost back to where it was just …
The Federal Reserve has just reported the largest year over year rise in history of the velocity of the M2 money supply with a 10.6% increase from one year ago. Photo credit: (FRED) The Velocity of Money is defined by the Federal Reserve as: …’the number of times one dollar is spent to buy goods …
by theSilverVigilante I didn’t even think they reported this anymore. Us M1 money stock. This is crazy. When covid hit the value was at Five Point something and it got crushed all the way down to one and currently sits at 1.376. They shut down small businesses and GDP Tanked 30%. Quarantined locked in your …
by confoundedinterest17 It is truly a Fed Inferno! Money supply growth fell again in April from Jerome Powell And The Fed, plummeting further into negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time in twenty-eight years. April’s drop continues a steep downward trend from the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past …
