I think longer term, we end up like Europe here, where all rates are negative. I think the "inflation" is due to competition with china causing supply chain problems, And war of Russia. I don't think raising rates will help there at all either. And ...

Interesting... you know its the 2020s, when the only thing saving us from great depression is war.

Breaking news: the numbers do and have never made any sense (basically)...

Think about this though... the EUR and the main chief of that bank "spoke the EUR tighter" yesterday... ha that kind of stuff makes you wonder if they knew this all was coming... EUR would want to buy time with their currency higher, since I suspect ...

LOL - the expected vs. actuals looks terrible on this one... looks like forecasters capitulated to the terrible numbers at exactly the wrong time... they were 1000% wrong, at least so far it looks to me. So if the market believed this... expect ...

"Backward roll"... ha all I can picture is this for some reason:

This is inevitable. It is because of the fact that the age demographics are crappy for the West/US... it is worse in China, etc... but yeah. Basically in order for the benefits of the larger "aging out" population to be paid, and all the municipals ...

Markets now... are not what they used to be. They are and will be all fake, depend more on policy makers and laws now than they did in the distant past. The age demographics of all but say Africa are bad, and the current "neverending growth" market ...

If your grandmother really has a money sock.. she will LOVE no inflation policies hehe

They want to avoid the "Japan problem": url *8-11 minutes explains it well. Basic idea though is they would rather have inflation, as long as it's not something WACKY like 10%... than what Japan saw. Because not having any inflation, still having ...

Not gonna happen... they let it all go for too long. The entire US would crash globally if they don't continue the charade. IE... the only thing that can annd will be done is this, what do you think?: So lots and lots and lots of DEBT is a problem ...

They would have to sound SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPER hawkish at this point in order "for things to actually be hawkish." Because all the media is already noting that the case they priced in right now is "pretty hawkish" - so basically FED speakers/FED ...

Why would they taper? They just can't.. I think the world ends at all close to negative rates, and everything needs to then be done VIA "risk adjusted" instead of actual rates since they will all be 0 or negative. The reason why they don't is that ...

foto: the entire thing is a ponzi-fraud at this point... but now it is at the government level, instead of investment banks. I think this means that they won't let it end... And I also think this means that the whole thing will "whimper" along... ...

Haha.. I'd not be surprised to do a study and see that at every major trend turning point, Bullard is there... he never seems to not appear when things turn - IE the strong dollar trend appears to be turning just now (but who knows. ha)

Massive STOCK market inflation.. LOL peope with no jobs.. what are they going to spend? Everyone I know in the "actual" economy can't get as much work as they would like. I'm sure the 1,500 every 3 months is going to create MASSIVE inflation... ha ...

My guess is EUR/USD bear traps, but we shall see... I think the comment was to counter that the EU is growing so much slower than the rest: url and yet its currency is still appreciating. I think this is just a "structural trend" personally, so no ...

Yeah, EXACTLY! The FED doing anything is basically like "pushing on a string" - it also relies on, at least it seems this way STRONGLY to me, that "trickle down" happens from those with resources that then benefit from this. I suspect it ends in the ...

Doesn't a stronger dollar help Imports and not Exports? IE the stronger the dollar: 1.) The more we can buy from abroad. 2.) The more our labor becomes expensive, so the less of our exports people want?