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Blame ..... the Fed!

 

And Europe!

 

 

The bond market is crumbling. That's bad for Wall Street and Main Street

 

 

The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond, a proxy for borrowing costs, briefly moved above 4% on Wednesday for the first time in 12 years. That's a bad omen for Wall Street and Main Street.

 

What's happening: This hasn't been a pretty year for US stocks. All three major indexes are in a bear market, down more than 20% from recent highs, and analysts predict more pain ahead. When things are this bad, investors seek safety in Treasury bonds, which have low returns but are also considered low-risk (As loans to the US government, Treasury notes are seen as a safe bet since there is little risk they won't be paid back).

 

But in 2022's topsy-turvy economy, even that safe haven has become somewhat treacherous.

 

Bond returns, or yields, rise as their prices fall. Under normal market conditions, a rising yield should mean that there's less demand for bonds because investors would rather put their money into higher-risk (and higher-reward) stocks.

 

Instead markets are plummeting, and investors are flocking out of risky stocks, but yields are going up. What gives?

 

Blame the Fed. Persistent inflation has led the Federal Reserve to fight back by aggressively hiking interest rates, and as a result the yields on US Treasury bonds have soared.

 

Economic turmoil in the United Kingdom and European Union has also caused the value of both the British pound and the euro to fall dramatically when compared to the US dollar. Dollar strength typically coincides with higher bond rates as well.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/29/investing/premarket-trading-stocks/index.html

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On 9/28/2022 at 7:40 AM, DRsGhost said:

Also POTUS dementia from stage 4 to stage 5.

 

Such great news for our nation!

 

 

President Biden, A Good American President!

                                       -Some internet dummy

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On 9/28/2022 at 10:01 AM, Tiberius said:

Trump, I mean Putin, is out there blowing up pipelines. Guess who will get blamed for the resulting higher prices? 

 

This POS will say it was Biden, not his buddy 

 

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My wife almost had a stroke at the stores today.

 

It is so much worse then they're telling us

 

This should help:

 

 

Grocery store prices aren't coming down anytime soon

 

Some sobering news for US shoppers: There's little relief in sight on grocery store bills.

 

Grocery prices climbed 13.5% in August from the year before, the highest annual increase since March 1979, according to government data.

 

Executives at large food manufacturers and analysts expect inflation to hover around this level for the rest of 2022.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/business-food/grocery-store-prices-food/index.html

 

 

 

If Trump was in office, the news would follow around shoppers every other day to show you - to make sure you saw and felt - the daily pain from the surge in prices.  

 

 

Thank you Branch Covidians.  

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22 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

My wife almost had a stroke at the stores today.

 

It is so much worse then they're telling us

 

This should help:

 

 

Grocery store prices aren't coming down anytime soon

 

Some sobering news for US shoppers: There's little relief in sight on grocery store bills.

 

Grocery prices climbed 13.5% in August from the year before, the highest annual increase since March 1979, according to government data.

 

Executives at large food manufacturers and analysts expect inflation to hover around this level for the rest of 2022.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/30/business-food/grocery-store-prices-food/index.html

 

 

 

If Trump was in office, the news would follow around shoppers every other day to show you - to make sure you saw and felt - the daily pain from the surge in prices.  

 

 

Thank you Branch Covidians.  

Big Food is screwing us!!

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ANALYSIS: TRUE. 

 

Policymakers caused the coming recession — don’t let them blame COVID and Ukraine.

 

If, as seems increasingly likely, the United States and world have a hard economic landing next year, of one thing you can be sure: Policymakers both at home and abroad will not assume responsibility. Rather, they’ll point to COVID, a once-in-a-century health crisis, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the primary causes of our economic woes.

 

The truth of the matter, however, is different. Without a series of egregious policy missteps in a number of the world’s major economies, we could have avoided a hard world economic landing.

 

 

But they’ll act as if it’s something that just kinda happened.

 

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/policymakers-caused-the-coming-recession-dont-let-them-blame-covid-and-ukraine/

 

 

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9 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

ANALYSIS: TRUE. 

 

Policymakers caused the coming recession — don’t let them blame COVID and Ukraine.

 

If, as seems increasingly likely, the United States and world have a hard economic landing next year, of one thing you can be sure: Policymakers both at home and abroad will not assume responsibility. Rather, they’ll point to COVID, a once-in-a-century health crisis, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the primary causes of our economic woes.

 

The truth of the matter, however, is different. Without a series of egregious policy missteps in a number of the world’s major economies, we could have avoided a hard world economic landing.

 

 

But they’ll act as if it’s something that just kinda happened.

 

 

https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/policymakers-caused-the-coming-recession-dont-let-them-blame-covid-and-ukraine/

 

 

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Very similar to Hoover and FDR’s policies exacerbated the Great Depression. 

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Wall Street: The U.S. housing market to see the second biggest home price decline since the Great Depression

 

National home price declines are uncommon, but it does occur on occasion. It happened in the early 1980s, then again in the early 1990s, and most notably in the years following the 2008 housing crash. That said, sharp home price declines are incredibly rare: Only the Great Depression and the Great Recession saw nationwide home prices fall in the double-digits range.

 

That history—or lack of history—is why recent outlooks published by Wall Street titans are raising eyebrows. Not only is there a building consensus on Wall Street that we've entered into a period of falling home prices, but there's also a consensus it will be the second-sharpest home price decline since the Great Depression.

 

https://fortune.com/2022/10/03/housing-market-wall-street-home-prices-predictions-moodys-goldman-sachs-morgan-stanley-fitch-ratings/

 

 

 

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Just in time for re-election I hope 

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Cooling global demand and steady improvements in supply should result in falling rates of inflation for goods over the next year, New York Fed President John Williams said Monday.

“These factors should contribute to inflation declining to about 3% next year,” Williams said in a speech to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Phoenix.

Inflation, as measured by the Fed’s favorite personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, was running at a 6.2% annual rate in August.

 

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/feds-williams-sees-steep-decline-in-inflation-ahead-11664825249

 

 

21 hours ago, Big Blitz said:

Wall Street: The U.S. housing market to see the second biggest home price decline since the Great Depression

 

National home price declines are uncommon, but it does occur on occasion. It happened in the early 1980s, then again in the early 1990s, and most notably in the years following the 2008 housing crash. That said, sharp home price declines are incredibly rare: Only the Great Depression and the Great Recession saw nationwide home prices fall in the double-digits range.

 

That history—or lack of history—is why recent outlooks published by Wall Street titans are raising eyebrows. Not only is there a building consensus on Wall Street that we've entered into a period of falling home prices, but there's also a consensus it will be the second-sharpest home price decline since the Great Depression.

 

https://fortune.com/2022/10/03/housing-market-wall-street-home-prices-predictions-moodys-goldman-sachs-morgan-stanley-fitch-ratings/

 

 

 

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