This was supposed to be the year that US inflation rode the last mile down to 2%, letting the Federal Reserve steadily reduce interest rates from a two-decade high. Fed chair ignited rally by signaling rate cuts in December. Housing, insurance, commodity prices among contributors. Traders now see just one to two rate cuts this year from […]
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“The Fed doesn’t want to say this explicitly, but it is actually saying (in not so many words) that a recession is very likely coming our way,” economist David Rosenberg said in a note on Thursday. In previous soft landings, the Fed usually cut rates by 75 basis points, but they’re forecasting a 150 basis-point
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The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity breaks down the profound damage caused by central bank money printing: it pits savers against speculators, encouraging consumers to use debt to fund basic needs since their savings are constantly evaporating due to monetary debasement. The Fed’s “dollar destruction,” as Paul calls it, is something that Americans
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The Treasury is on track to borrow over $3 trillion this fiscal year, 50 percent more than previously estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. Bidenomics, perhaps best defined as the government spending, borrowing, and printing too much money, not only made the bomb larger but also caused inflation, which forced up interest rates. That was the
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While geopolitical uncertainty is important for gold, there are other factors we need to pay attention to: growing fears of a credit event leading to a recession. The chaos in the Middle East caused by the Israel-Hamas war is providing solid momentum for gold but there is more going on in the market than just
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Jamie Dimon said, “I want to point out the central banks 18 months ago were 100% dead wrong,” he added, “I would be quite cautious about what might happen next year….” The last time US government bond yields climbed so far, so fast, the nation plunged into back-to-back recessions. The Fed’s record of predicting recessions
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In March 2008, the Fed overlooked the clear signals provided by the Bear Stearns’ failure leading to the Great Economic Recession. The Federal Reserve is sticking to its mantra of high-interest rates for longer in order to regain inflation control. By so doing, the Fed risks inviting a financial system crisis next year that could
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Fitch Ratings surprised markets after it downgraded U.S. long-term debt. Although markets largely shrugged off the downgrade, it has brought attention to the U.S. government’s growing deficit. In a recent report, commodity analysts at Montreal-based BCA Research said that gold remains an attractive hedge against an inevitable devaluation in the U.S. dollar as the U.S.
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The unemployment rate peaked at 14.7 percent, the highest in the post-World War II period. Inflation reached its highest rate in 40 years, prompting the Fed to raise short-term interest rates to their highest levels since 2007. Federal Reserve banks opened for business in November of 1914. Historical CPI data from MeasuringWorth show that the
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“There is no chance we’re having a soft landing in the context of the most pernicious tightening by the Fed since the Paul Volcker years,” Rosenberg says. It’s equally interesting to hear Dimon talk about how great things are when the pace of bank lending, in the aggregate, is heading towards negative territory on a
