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Thanks to inflation, it has gotten a lot more expensive. The median wealth of middle-income Americans has stayed flat for years.
The measure, affecting millions of tenants, is the biggest step in a nationwide surge of initiatives to address rising costs and homelessness.
Mortgage rates rose on a weekly basis, even as President Trump called for the Fed to take its target interest rates negative.
    Economists Don’t See Path to 3% Growth in 2019 - WSJ
Sep 12, 2019 - 08:04:11 PDT
Forecasters expect economic growth will slow to 1.7% in 2020 and will be 1.9% in 2021.
"So much for the infinity QE. Assuming that the capital key is sacrosanct, they cannot boost the size of their balance sheet in a meaningful way without an increase in the issuer limit."
But we might get some temporary strength once gold drops to $1,330 within the next few weeks...
Assets of money funds, which are seen as being nearly as safe as bank accounts, climbed by $24.57 billion to $3.355 trillion in the week ended Sept. 10, the Money Fund Report said.
Donald Trump has been badgering Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for months, begging for lower interest rates. Yesterday, he took things to another level, saying that the "boneheads" at the Fed need to push rates into negative territory.
In his podcast, Peter Schiff said by his own definition, Trump is the bonehead.
    China Stimulus Feared ‘Too Little, Too Late’ - FT
Sep 12, 2019 - 06:44:23 PDT
“We believe there’s an increasing risk that the policy is running behind the curve,” said Helen Qiao, chief greater China economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The U.S. could be issuing 50-year bonds as soon as next year as the government looks for cheaper and longer-term ways to finance its burgeoning debt load, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin tells CNBC.
    Core Consumer Prices Surge At Fastest Rate Since 2008
Sep 12, 2019 - 06:23:29 PDT
The surge in inflation was led by a jump in Goods prices...
    Corporations Piling Up Debt at Record Pace
September 12, 2019
Corporations are piling on the debt.
Last week, companies borrowed $74 billion in the US investment-grade bond market. It was the largest corporate debt increase for any comparable period since they started tracking such things in 1972.
Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), is scheduled to deliver his remarks on monetary policy outlook in a press conference at 12:30 GMT. In a widely expected decision, the ECB today announced that it lowered the rate on deposit facility by 10 basis points to -0.5% as expected.
European Central Bank, acting quickly, Cuts Rates 10 Basis Points. They are trying, and succeeding, in depreciating the Euro against the VERY strong Dollar, hurting U.S. exports.... And the Fed sits, and sits, and sits. They get paid to borrow money, while we are paying interest!
The consumer is beginning to worry...
The Swiss Bankers Association criticized the central bank’s policy of negative rates, saying it was causing “massive structural damage” to the economy.
The central bank’s quantitative easing program will entail 20 billion euros per month of asset purchases for as long as it deems necessary.
    Gold Recovers on Short-Covering Ahead of ECB
Sep 12, 2019 - 04:40:34 PDT
Gold erased earlier losses on Thursday as investors covered short positions ahead of a European Central Bank meeting, but improved risk appetite on hopes of a thaw in U.S.-China trade tensions limited the bullion's advance.
Dutch parliament on Wednesday sent a formal letter to the European Central Bank underlining its opposition to a policy under consideration that...
    The ECB Decision Is Coming — Here’s What to Expect
Sep 12, 2019 - 04:37:07 PDT
The ECB will announce its decision at 1:45 p.m. local time (7:45 a.m. Eastern), followed by a news conference with President Mario Draghi at 2:30 p.m. Economists at Goldman Sachs said most of the measures will be revealed in the announcement, rather than the Draghi press conference.