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Both new households and new businesses are in secular decline. Goosing the stock market and GDP doesn't change this reality.
It is so far out there away from mainstream convention getting anyone to recognize what their eyes are recording is an enormous task.
Not since the bottom of the last housing crash have homes in the San Francisco Bay Area lost value. But prices follow sales, and sales have been running extraordinarily low since last summer, when mortgage rates spiked.
Argentina’s peso rallied Monday after the central bank said it would step up intervention in the currency market -- the fourth change to policy in six weeks -- following last week’s market collapse.
The peso, the world’s worst performing currency this year, advanced as much as 4.4 percent against the dollar, before paring the gains to 44.80, an increase of 2.6 percent. The yield on government bonds maturing in 2021 dropped 56 basis points 17.34 percent, after rising above 20 percent briefly on Thursday.
And with the "Right" Amount of Money Creation? Most economists are of the view that a growing economy requires a growing money stock, because economic growth gives rise to a greater demand for money, which must be accommodated.
But don’t worry, it won’t be his fault when a spiking U.S. dollar boomerangs back on an over-leveraged U.S. economy in ways they can’t conceive of.
Is the US slippin’ into darkness? It is, according to core inflation slipping to 1.55% YoY compared to The Fed’s target rate of 2.0%. Declining core inflation translate to a flattening …
Median prices across Southern California are dropping for the first time in seven years, according to figures released Friday.
China is taking another baby step in promoting the internationalization of the renminbi and nibble on the hegemony of the US dollar: It’s pushing a proposal to add a pile of yuan to the $240 billion currency swap agreement...
In both the late 1800s and from the 1990s to present day, the 10 year average inflation rate has been low. The key difference is it was much more volatile in the 1800s as there were several depressions.
Momentum has fizzled out in all three blocs of the international system. We are entering the window of maximum vulnerability.
Our central bankers will undoubtedly point to disinflation risk and consumer prices drifting below the Fed’s 2% target.
The impact will vary. Rising oil prices will hurt household income and spending and it could accelerate inflation.
That was the year that the Fed initiated a mid-course correction in monetary policy, cutting interest rates after a sustained bout of tightening.
Deutsche Bank has struggled to find direction in the years following the global financial crisis, embarking on a series of overhauls that have failed to yield consistent profits.
No super-wealthy individual or household is going to pay billions in additional taxes when $10 to $20 million will purchase political adjustments.
The Commerce Department released the first estimate of Q1 GDP growth on Friday. It came in higher than expected at 3.2%.Somewhat surprisingly, the price of gold surged on the news and the dollar showed some weakness. The primary reason was presumably lower inflation. This means the Fed still has the excuse it needs to continue the Powell Pause.There was also some data in the Commerce Department's report that reveals shakiness in that growth number. In fact, Peter Schiff said he thinks this will likely be the strongest growth of the year.
The second quote I Deem to Be of Major Significance for its cryptic reference to a Gold-Backed Currency: “China treasures its promises and commitments with a thousand taels of gold.”
The Defense Department is asking Congress for $718 billion in its fiscal 2020 budget, an increase of $33 billion or about 5% over what Congress enacted for fiscal 2019.
This is the biggest monthly drop in the savings rate since Jan 2013.