- Market Doesn’t Believe Fed Chair Jerome Powell Is Serious About Raising Interest Rates: Sica
Circle Squared Alternative investments Jeff Sica discusses the market climbing despite COVID surge and the Federal Reserve's response to inflation.
- 3 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 7:38pm -
- El-Erian Sees 'Trifecta' of Risks Facing U.S. Economy
Mohamed El-Erian, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, sees "trifecta" of risks facing the U.S. economy going into 2022. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Open." El-Erian's opinions are his own.
- 4 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 7:26pm -
- US Dollar Surges as US Short-Term Yields Hit 22-Month Highs
As traders trickle back to their desks to start another year, there’s one market move dwarfing all others: The US dollar is trouncing its major rivals. The chart below highlights the move, with the so-called commodity dollars (the Canadian, New Zea…
- 4 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 7:17pm -
- 2022: The Year of Breakdown
In other words, our economy and society have been optimized for failure. If we look at the fragility and instability of essential systems, it's clear that 2022 will be the year of breakdown. Let's start by reviewing how systems break down, a process…
- 6 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 4:59pm -
- 2022 Federal Reserve Inflation Expectations: DiMartino Booth
2022 Federal Reserve Inflation Expectations — DiMartino Booth with Making Money of Fox Business
- 6 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 4:53pm -
- 10Y Treasury Yields Jump Above 1.60%, Expectation Fed Hikes Grows (Mortgage Rates Expected To Rise
Happy New Year! And Treasuries are off to fast start with investors bailing on Treasuries and buying stocks. AND the expectation that The Fed will raise rates 3 times this year. The 10-year Treasury Note yield rose above 1.60% this morning.
- 6 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 4:51pm -
- Many Americans Aren’t Optimistic About Their Financial Situation This Year. Here’s What They Blame
Rising prices have many Americans worried about their financial future.
- 6 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 4:48pm -
- Nearly Half of 18- to 34-Year-Olds Feel Like They Are ‘Drowning in Debt’
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by debt. Unpaid student loans, an ever-increasing credit card balance with high interest, a monthly car payment: these are just a few reasons why young consumers feel like they carry a huge financial weight on their sh…
- 6 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 4:41pm -
- Money Has Never Felt More Fake
The market feels like a bubble. Does it matter?
- 7 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 4:21pm -
- Fed Drains $1.9 Trillion in Liquidity from Market via Overnight Reverse Repos
Banks unloaded cash today for quarter-end window dressing. Money markets funds are biggest counterparties, Fidelity, Vanguard, Blackrock on top.
- 7 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 4:14pm -
- Packing Away the Constitution
"Principled interpreters of the Constitution do not advocate overturning valid Constitutional precedents, but precedents that deviated from it, as the only way to maintain it as the 'highest law of the land' in fact, as well as on paper." ~ Gary M. G…
- 7 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 4:08pm -
- Q-Review 12/2021: The Great Reset
During this year, we have awakened to a completely new kind threat, that is, to the threat of a ‘takeover’ of our economies and societies. While we have flirted with the idea of central banks taking over the financial markets and the economy prev…
- 7 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 4:02pm -
- Food Costs Likely To Rise as Farmers' Expenses Shoot Up
Famine is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse for good reason; hunger was an unwelcome companion for most of human history. The threat it poses declined in recent decades because of innovations in agriculture and increasing prosperity. But the…
- 7 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 3:50pm -
- Central Banks Face Raging Inflation: What I See for 2022
Super-inflated asset prices such as housing, stocks, and bonds; massive inflation; and central banks that have started to react. An extra-special cocktail of three powerful ingredients with no cherry on top awaits us in 2022.
- 7 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 3:42pm -
- California Real Estate Market Totally, Unconditionally Tied to Federal Reserve Support
To start the new year, thought I'd look at what has driven the California house price appreciation and what we could expect in 2022.
- 7 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 3:37pm -
- In the Next 10 Years, Nearly All the Population Increase Will Be Age Group 65+
In the next decade the census bureau expects the population will increase by 18.6 million. 15.3 million of that will be those 65 and older.
- 7 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 3:34pm -
- Your Cash Savings Will Be Crucial During a ‘Dramatic Reckoning’: Rick Rule
his is an obvious one. Given all of the Fed’s money printing, Rule pointed out the importance of owning gold and silver.
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 2:12pm -
- The Coming Retirement Crisis Will Affect Everyone
We are on the cusp of a retirement crisis that will affect everyone. Far too many promises have been made and the demographics we face do not bode well for a bright future. The answer that some people tout is we should have more children or open the…
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 2:10pm -
- Gold Futures: Further Upside on the Cards
Open interest in gold futures markets rose for the second session in a row on Friday, this time by nearly 5K contracts considering flash data from CME
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 2:02pm -
- Gold Slips as Investors Weigh Omicron Fallout, Await Payrolls
Gold nudged lower as investors assessed potential risks from the omicron Covid-19 variant on the global recovery while awaiting key U.S. jobs data due later in the week.
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:58pm -
- An Extraordinary Rise in U.S. Debt in Just the Last Two Weeks
The debt of the U.S. federal government is a factor that should affect the price of gold since the U.S. dollar is the world reserve currency. Recent developments in the level of the federal government debt are perplexing and it appears that debt leve…
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:55pm -
- Property Stocks Sink After Demolition Order: Evergrande Update
Chinese developer shares dropped following local media reports that China Evergrande Group has been ordered to tear down apartment blocks in a development in Hainan province. Evergrande halted trading in its shares.
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:47pm -
- America's Wars Are Far More Costly than the Pentagon Admits
America’s engagement in war has proven to be quite costly. According to a major 2019 study, from 2001 to 2019, taxpayers
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:45pm -
- China and Russia Military Cooperation Raises Prospect of New Challenge to American Power: WSJ
Joint military exercises, coordinated weapons development and technology sharing are seen as tools in a campaign to limit U.S. might abroad, military analysts and U.S. officials say.
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:44pm -
- Biden Tells Ukraine That U.S. Will ‘Respond Decisively’ if Russia Further Invades
U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the United States and its allies will "respond decisively" if Russia further invades Ukraine, the White House said in a statement.
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:42pm -
- 10 Things That Will Be More Expensive in 2022
Prices are going up in the year ahead. Here's what's going to be more expensive and how to navigate paying more for the things you want.
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:38pm -
- Red-Hot Housing Market Fuels Mortgage Borrowing Record: WSJ
Mortgage lenders issued $1.61 trillion in purchase loans in 2021, beating a record set in 2005, as a wave of Americans entered the housing market or sought larger homes.
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:37pm -
- Doug Nolan’s Weekly Commentary: 2021 Year in Review
“Things Ran Wild”. Covid ran wild. Monetary inflation ran wild. Inflation, in general, ran completely wild. Speculation and asset inflation ran really wild. More insidiously, mal-investment and inequality turned wilder. Extreme weather ran wild.…
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:34pm -
- Euro Is Moving Lower Against U.S. Dollar
The U.S. Dollar Index is moving towards the resistance at the 96 level. In case the U.S. Dollar Index manages to settle above this level, it will head towards the next resistance at 96.25 which will be bearish for EUR/USD.
- 9 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:32pm -
- Turkish Inflation Soars to 36%, Highest in Erdogan Era
Turkey's annual inflation rate surged to 36.1% last month, its highest in the 19 years Tayyip Erdogan has ruled, laying bare the depths of a currency crisis engineered by the president's unorthodox interest rate-cutting
- 10 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:19pm -
- Peso Goes From EM Asia’s Best to Worst Currency in a Week
The Philippine peso turned into emerging Asia’s worst-performing currency in December from being the best, as a seasonal boost from remittances petered out. Strategists see the bearish momentum continuing.
- 10 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:18pm -
- Investors Can Expect a Busy Week of 2022 With Several Key Economic Releases Due Out of Washington
Investors can expect a busy first week of 2022, laden with key economic releases out of Washington that include the highly-anticipated December jobs report and minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) latest policy-setting meeting.
- 10 hours ago, 3 Jan 22, 1:09pm -
- Gold’s Turn To Shine
Gold’s turn to shine again is nearing, with major bullish drivers aligning heading into this new year. The Fed’s vast deluge of new money remains intact despite QE tapering, continuing to fuel raging inflation. A new rate-hike cycle to fight th…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 8:50pm -
- Silver and Gold: The Road Ahead in 2022
As their world collapses around them, central bankers will act like bulls in a china shop, destroying their credibility and currencies even more as their panic increases. Against this background, buyers of physical gold and silver will do so not beca…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 8:43pm -
- Dollar’s Year of Living Dangerously Awaits
There are at least five headwinds facing the dollar in 2022. And five reasons to worry economist Stephen Roach’s belief that “the dollar’s crash is only just beginning” are looking less hyperbolic by the day. As Roach, former chairman of Morg…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 8:40pm -
- An Inflation Outlook for the US Dollar in 2022
As the current situation for the dollar unfolds, its purchasing power is set to decline similarly to the French livre of three centuries ago. But there is also an ugly systemic problem in the commercial banking network, for which to appreciate we mus…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 8:18pm -
- Why Are Central Banks Buying Gold?
Clearly, the focus on buying gold is a turn from the policy of being net-sellers since the 1970s, when the US dollar was taken off the gold standard. Russia and China, two countries with several political issues with US, have been the largest buyers…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 8:18pm -
- Russia’s Gold and Forex Reserves Hits Record High Amid Intense 2021
The Central Bank of Russia and the government have access to Russia’s international reserves, which are highly liquid foreign assets consisting of monetary gold, foreign currencies, and special drawing rights, notably Russia has the fifth-largest f…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 7:46pm -
- Gold and Crypto Currencies Will Soar If Russia Invades Ukraine or If China Invades Taiwan
Since the Cuban missile crisis, the world has not been so perilously near to a catastrophic mistake by NATO, the United States, Russia, and China, resulting in the deployment of nuclear weapons of mass devastation. The military power balance that has…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 7:38pm -
- Silver Moves Higher While Gold Heads Towards $1830
The U.S. Dollar Index managed to settle below the support level at 96 and is trying to get to the test of the support at 95.75. In case the U.S. Dollar Index declines below 95.75, it will head towards the 50 EMA at 95.55 which will be bullish for sil…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 4:42pm -
- The Bull Case for Gold in 2022: George Milling-Stanley
George Milling-Stanley, State Street Global Advisors Head of Gold Strategy, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the outlook for gold futures in relation to equity markets, expected Fed policies, inflation, and cryptocurrency trends.
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 4:35pm -
- Why Doesn't Increased Demand Bring More Supply?
By popular thinking, the key driver of economic growth is increases in the total demand for goods and services. It is also held that the overall output increases by a multiple of the increase in expenditure by government, consumers and businesses.
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 4:25pm -
- The Rule of Planned Money
As the hungry dollar devours its own purchasing power we may think we are going to find out what happened to the fabulous snake that swallowed itself. But we won't; and if we did, it would add perhaps nothing to the sum of human wisdom.
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 4:19pm -
- The Gold-Exchange Standard in Operation: 1926–1929
[Excerpt from Murray N. Rothbard, A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 2005), part 4, pp. 400–24.]
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 4:09pm -
- 2022: The Golden Year
The above do not predict the short-term. But when macro fundamentals (just one of many being gold’s standing vs. commodities per the first chart above) marry the technical situation in gold (e.g. a Handle breakout or eventual bottom/low) we will lo…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 3:03pm -
- Market Timer McClellan Sees Sharp Stock-Market Selloff ‘Beginning Imminently’: MW
Market timer Tom McClellan, publisher of the McClellan Market Report, warned of a "sharp drop" in the stock market "beginning imminently" and continuing for a couple of weeks into January. Among reasons for his view, chart signals suggest the recent…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 2:24pm -
- Elon Musk Predicts A Recession As Soon As Spring Or Summer 2022, But "Not Later Than 2023"
When further asked about when he thought the next recession would be, Musk said: "Predicting macroeconomics is challenging, to say the least. My gut feel is maybe around spring or summer 2022, but not later than 2023."
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 2:12pm -
- The Fed’s Moves Pumped Up Stocks. In 2022, It May Pull the Plug
“Between federal stimulus keeping the economy going, easy monetary policy from the Fed keeping markets liquid and interest rates low, and the ongoing medical improvement leading to surprising growth, markets have been in the best of all possible wo…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 2:02pm -
- How Biden's Agenda Is Causing Inflation
Back in the 1970s, Ford was better known for literally and figuratively stumbling than for his economic acumen, especially when it came to inflation, which soared into double digits shortly after he took office. Ford believed that the way to beat inf…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 2:00pm -
- The First Test of ECB’s New QE Policy Will Be Italy: Bloomberg
Ironically, the first major central bank likely to be tested in 2022 is the most dovish: The European Central Bank. Since the Dec. 16 unveiling of its post-pandemic stimulus policy review, there has been a gradual but persistent widening of Italian g…
- 3 days ago, 31 Dec 21, 1:54pm -