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Stupidity Well Anchored: Absurdity of Inflation Expectations in Graphic Form

By silveristhenew | Published September 21, 2017

mishtalk.com / Mike “Mish” Shedlock / September 21, 2017 The amount of sheer nonsense written about inflation expectations is staggering. Let’s take a look at some recent articles before making a mockery of them with a single picture. Expectations Problem On July 17, 2017, Rich Miller writing for Bloomberg proclaimed The Fed Has an Inflation Expectations Problem. Expectations […]

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Key Events In The Coming Week: All Eyes On The (Jackson) Hole

By silveristhenew | Published August 21, 2017

Absent any major geopolitical shocks, it is set to be a quiet summer week ahead with focus on the Jackson Hole conference. On the data front the key releases will be US durable goods and Eurozone PMIs, as well as Japan inflation & UK and Norway GDP. In Emerging Markets, there are monetary policy meetings […]

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Tales From The FOMC Underground

By silveristhenew | Published July 9, 2017

Authored by EconomicPrism's MN Gordon, annotated by Acting-Man's Pater Tenebrarum, A Great Big Dud Many of today’s economic troubles are due to a fantastic guess.  That the wealth effect of inflated asset prices would stimulate demand in the economy. The premise, as we understand it, was that as stock portfolios bubbled up investors would feel […]

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June Payrolls Preview: With The Fed On Autopilot, You Can Skip This One

By silveristhenew | Published July 6, 2017

After a poor March jobs report, followed by an April scorcher, then another debacle in May, the June payrolls report due at 8:30am will be… very much irrelevant, because as Citi pointed out earlier, the Fed is now data-independent and will keep hiking until financial conditions finally tighten (read: stocks drop). In other words, with […]

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Goldman: The Fed Will Hike This Week, But Here Are “The Two Most Interesting Questions”

By silveristhenew | Published June 11, 2017

On Wedensday the FOMC will hike rates by another 25 bps – an event which the Fed Funds market prices in with near virtual certainty, while Goldman calls the rate increase “extremely likely” – and only a “tail” event like an extremely weak CPI report on Wednesday morning, hours ahead of the Fed announcement, has […]

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Key Events In The Coming Week: FOMC Minutes, GDP, BOC, OPEC And More

By silveristhenew | Published May 22, 2017

The key highlights in the coming week are the Fed minutes, the Eurogroup meeting on Greece, the OPEC meeting and Bank of Canada rate decision. We also get GDP releases in the US, Eurozone, and UK, while a murder (or gaggle) of Fed speaker will highlight virtually every single day, starting with 4 today. Also […]

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Weekend Reading: Errant Thinking

By silveristhenew | Published February 24, 2017

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Last week, I penned a post entitled “You Can’t Time The Market?” which was subsequently picked up on the Seeking Alpha website. It is always interesting for me to read the comments on the articles as it gives me a lot of insight as to the psychology of individuals […]

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Key Events In The Coming Week

By silveristhenew | Published February 6, 2017

It is a relatively light week in the US, with mainly trade balance, JOLTS and consumer credit data out. The key economic release this week is University of Michigan consumer sentiment on Friday. In addition, there are a few scheduled speaking engagements from Fed officials this week, including a speech by Federal Reserve Vice Chair […]

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Chicago Fed Bounces But Employment Slips

By silveristhenew | Published September 30, 2016

zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / Sep 30, 2016 9:55 AM “Economic growth in the US appears to have picked up a little at the end of the third quarter,” reports MNI as September’s Chicago Fed ticked up to 54.2 (better than the 52.0 expectations). Most subindices rose but notably employment fell. While excuses grow around the […]

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Chicago Fed Crushes Recovery Dreams In 2 Tweets

By silveristhenew | Published September 27, 2013

zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 09/27/2013 11:10 -0400 Some joked that the Chicago Fed’s Twitter account must have been hacked buyt it turns out that is not entirely true. Following Esther George’s “renegade” comments last night, Austan Goolsbee was unleashed by Fed’s Evans to lay down some ugly truthiness in 140-character-world. The results – in these 2 […]

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