The media and the Fed seem to have declared victory over inflation this week. If this is your first experience with inflationary periods like this, […]
Tag: INFLATION
The Consumer is Toast
The media has been hyping the consumer is still strong nonsense for many, many months now. To the point that has become nauseating propaganda which […]
Final 3rd Quarter Stock Review: Doom
Folks, the entire quarter was punctuated with below normal volume, higher bond yields, and massive distribution by large accounts on higher moves. Cheered up yet? […]
Today the FOMC Will Probably Make Things Worse
Way, way, way back in history, I penned an article and a warning: Powell and the Fed Screw up Again In that piece I stated […]
A 1979 Inflation Flashback Returns to the Modern Era (Video)
Tonight I had planned to pen a piece on something else. Then one of the accounts I follow (and you should also) QE Infinity (@StealthQE4) […]
An Old Story from 2007 With a Modern Day Twist
I normally do not dig back in my archives to post my older stuff again unless it suddenly becomes relevant in the conversation of the […]
Jay Powell Can Not Win Today
There is this growing theory of thought being promoted on the Bubblevisions (financial television) that the Federal Reserve is done raising rates. It is promoted […]
Why Friday’s Jackson Hole Symposium Matters Now More than Ever
The constant debate between television economists and FinTwit commentaries (Financial Twitter) is that the statements and papers submitted by Federal Reserve members, including the Fed […]
One More Time for The Terminally Stupid: Inflation is Still Going Up
The mainstream media and the bubblevision might be stupid, but in reality they have the average American citizen pretty much figured out. So when one […]
Powell and the Fed Screw up Again
As I said early Wednesday morning, this was way to easy to predict. Let us begin tonight’s journey with a quick review of the FOMC […]
Happy Fed Blunder Day Everyone!
One year ago, here was the headline on these very pages: The Federal Reserve panicked on June 15, 2022 and raised rates 75 bps in […]
Today’s Inflation Report Was Not as Great as Advertised
This morning the Bureau of Lying Statistics issued their latest report on CPI and as usual, the Bubblevisions celebrated it with on air parties like […]
A Quick Review of Stocks: It’s an Elvis Market
What in the world to I mean by an Elvis market? Yup, trapped in a range bound nightmare. Despite yesterday’s decline and the accompanying headlines […]
2023 Vacation Book Review #2: The Price of Tomorrow
For my long time readers, most of you understand that I am not an optimist about the outcome of economic policy over the long term […]
The Stock Market is Still Stuck in the Mud
The usual suspects have been on the bubblevisions projecting a “new new” bull market and at the same time, others pushing that the end of […]