Sounds like the mainstream media is finally beginning to pick up on ideas Mike Maloney shared over 10 years ago.
The Fed's latest Beige Book, which based on information collected on or before April 10, 2023, indicated seemingly little change in the Us economy, reporting that "overall economic activity was little changed in recent weeks" but when one reads deeper between the lines, some stark issues begin to emerge.
US Sovereign credit risk protection has never cost so much as it currently does...
House Republicans will propose lifting the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion, or until March 31, 2024 - whichever comes first, according to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman.
A new rule from the Biden administration will force homebuyers with good credit scores to pay higher mortgage rates in order to subsidize loans to those with riskier borrowing profiles, the Washington Times reports.
I wrote about this in 2011 in Chapters 1 and 2 of my book Currency Wars. The scenario I presented at the time was that Russia and China would accumulate large gold reserves, pool their gold and launch a new digital currency backed by gold in place of the U.S. dollar.
I'll remind everyone this Fed prediction of a mild recession in 2008 turned into the Global Financial Crisis and the wrost recession since the Great Depression.
Hoisington Management's 2023 First Quarter Review by Lacy Hunt is another gem.
Before considering the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency is ending, we ask you to consider four reasons.
While the US is pointing its finger to African debt issue, its own domestic economy is on the verge of trouble. Washington's monetary policy has shifted from extreme easing, to radical interest rate hikes, triggering multiple US banks to collapse as well as subsequent negative chain reaction around the world. How can the US, whose financial policy is so irresponsible and self-serving...
Now it is firmly ensconced among the climate change cult that eating meat is killing the planet and you must ‘eat ze bugs’, the same people have a new target, rice.
Rice production for the marketing year ending July 2023 is set to log its largest production shortfall in two decades, according to Fitch Solutions.
A Gallup survey highlights Biden's struggle to force people into EVs.
Millennial homeownership rates badly trail other generations. Here's a look in pictures and an explanation for what's happening.
It’s only mid April and mortgage demand should be approaching it’s yearly high. But under Biden and The Fed, mortgage demand seems to have peaked earlier than normal. It’s already late in mortgage cycle.
The US is beginning to be out of time for agreeing on a debt limit increase. But you don’t need a fortune teller to tell you that Biden and McCarthy will eventually agree to increase the US debt limit because everyone in Washington DC love to borrow and spend money. Regardless, we are seeing the 1-year US Credit Default Swap (SR, EUR) rise above 100, higher than during the 2008/2009 financial crisis.
The greenback’s share in global reserves slid last year at 10 times the average speed of the past two decades as a number of countries looked for alternatives after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered sanctions, Jen and his Eurizon SLJ Capital Ltd. colleague Joana Freire wrote in a note.
Gold prices slid more than 1% on Wednesday on higher U.S. yields and the dollar, as some investors bet that a pause to the Federal Reserve's rate hike may take longer than previously thought.
Bitcoin is making headlines this morning after a sudden plunge back to $29,000 as a cascade of long liquidations fueled fresh fears of downside risk.
The biggest threat to the economic outlook is a credit squeeze that has not finished filtering through the financial system, two senior asset managers told a European equities conference on Wednesday. The failure of two U.S. lenders and the forced takeover of Credit Suisse roiled financial markets in March, and a sharp selloff in bank stocks tightened lending conditions further...