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Without Easy Money From The Fed, Home Prices Will Keep Falling
Wednesday, October 26, 2022 11:54 PM EDT
Home price growth of the sort we’ve seen in recent years simply cannot be sustained without a continued commitment to easy money from the central bank, and it shows.
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Housing Is Getting Less Affordable; Governments Are Making It Worse
Thursday, October 20, 2022 5:50 AM EDT
The average square footage in new single-family houses has been declining since 2015. House sizes tend to fall just during recessionary periods.
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Thanks To The Fed, You'll Work More This Year To Keep Last Year's Standard Of Living
Friday, October 14, 2022 1:10 AM EDT
Real disposable personal income was down by 4.4 percent in August, year over year. Growth has been negative since December of 2021, and it has remained well off trend since that time.
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In Latest Recession Signal, Money-Supply Growth Plummeted To A Three-Year Low In August
Thursday, September 29, 2022 8:37 PM EDT
Money supply growth fell again in August, dropping to a 36-month low. August's drop continues a steep downward trend from the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years.
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Central Bankers Are Gaslighting Us About The "Strong Dollar"
Thursday, September 22, 2022 2:03 AM EDT
The problem is never that the dollar is "too strong." The problem is that other central banks are even worse and that the depreciation of other currencies is causing instability, lost wealth, and economic crises. 
In this article: FXY, UUP
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August's Price Inflation Soared, And That Means Earnings Fell Yet Again
Tuesday, September 13, 2022 5:30 PM EDT
Month-over-month inflation rose, with the seasonally adjusted CPI rising 0.1 percent from July to August. With the exception of July’s month-over-month figure, which was zero, monthly CPI inflation has risen twenty-seven months in a row.
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If You're Just Now Getting Mad At The Fed, You're Much Too Late
Saturday, September 3, 2022 4:14 AM EDT
The real causes of our presently weak economy date back to before the current Fed policymakers were even running the show. 
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After Secession, What Happens To The National Debt?
Friday, August 5, 2022 3:56 AM EDT
Fears over the financial cost of not having every aspect of debt repayment squared away is not necessarily an impediment to national separation.
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GDP Shrinks Again As Biden Quibbles Over The Definition Of "Recession"
Thursday, July 28, 2022 9:47 PM EDT
Economic growth has hit a widely accepted benchmark for defining an economy as being in recession: two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. 
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The Fed Just Got Rid Of Forward Guidance Because It's Making It Up As It Goes
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 10:52 PM EDT
The Fed line for years has been that it would “not allow” inflation to rise much above its two-percent standard and that the Fed has “many tools” to ensure this doesn’t happen. All that big talk is now long gone.
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Yellen: "Recession" Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 1:21 AM EDT
If wages continue to fall behind inflation, and if the GDP numbers do show another contraction in the second quarter, it will be increasingly hard to declare the current state of the economy as an "expansion". 
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Like The Fed, The ECB Is Still A Long Way From "Normal" Monetary Policy
Friday, July 22, 2022 4:13 PM EDT
Even with the ECB's raising the policy rate to zero, not much has really changed at all.
In this article: EZU
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Inflation Hits 9.1 Percent After Months Of Empty Talk At The Fed
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 3:30 PM EDT
June marks the fifteenth month in a row during which CPI inflation has been more than double the Fed's 2 percent target inflation rate.
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Money Supply Growth Fell Again In May As More Recession Alarms Ring
Tuesday, July 12, 2022 4:00 PM EDT
The growth rates during most of 2020, and through April 2021, were much higher than anything we'd seen during previous cycles, with the 1970s being the only period that came close.
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Powell Is The New Arthur Burns, Not The New Paul Volcker
Thursday, June 30, 2022 8:50 PM EDT
Powell's Fed is a Fed that does no more than is absolutely necessary to convince the public and policymakers that it is "doing something" about inflation.
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No, It's Not "Greed" Or "Price Gouging" That's Driving Up Gas Prices
Wednesday, June 15, 2022 10:58 PM EDT
We end up with increasing supplies of dollars chasing oil and gas supplies that are increasing at a much slower pace. The result is rising price inflation.
In this article: OIL, UCO, UGA, USO
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