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Is the ECB Poised to Fire Up the Whirlybird?
Negative mortgage rates in Denmark. Sub-zero yields on 10-year corporate bonds from Nestle SA. A 100-year Austria bond trading at more than twice its face value. Record low yields on 30-year Treasuries. For fund managers trying to navigate the fixed-income universe, the bond market
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Dollar Soars to New 2019 High Even as Trump Laments Its Strength
The ascent of the dollar is proving almost unstoppable.While U.S. President Donald Trump lamented its strength on Twitter, the greenback continued to surge on Monday...
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National Average Rent Inches Up by $3 Per Month
The increase in national average rents slowed to a crawl in July but year-over-year rates are up 3.4%.
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Millennials Are the New Face of the Retirement Crisis
Consider the millennial generation, those born between 1981 and 1996. Starting this year they became the largest living generation in the U.S.
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White House Denies It Is Considering Payroll Tax Cut To Boost Economy
“As Larry Kudlow said yesterday, more tax cuts for the American people are certainly on the table, but cutting payroll taxes is not something under consideration at this time.”
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Food Prices Soar in Argentina as Peso Devalues
In the grip of an economic crisis that has dragged on for the better part of a year, Argentines were dealt another blow last Monday when their currency plunged yet again
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Gold Traders’ Report - August 19, 2019
Gold traded lower last night, sliding in a range of $1512.65 - $1493. It tripped long liquidating sell stops below key support levels of $1510 (up trend line from 8/1 $1401 low, former double top – 8/7 and 8/8 highs)...
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Ron Paul: Surviving The Great Inflation - The Fed Must Go!
No matter where you look, the desire for the Fed to print, Print, PRINT, is intense! The president wants it, the Socialists want it, debtors want it...
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Beware Of The $5 Trillion Corporate Debt Wall Due Through 2024
"The biggest concern for insurance companies is less a maturity wall and more downgrade risk."
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Cashin Warns If Bond Yields Move Lower Again Stocks Could Resume Down
"I think if yields roll over and start slipping, we may see renewed pressure on stocks," says UBS' Art Cashin.
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Money Printing Can't Replace Saving
There are some signs that the pace of US economic activity is starting to slow down. For instance, the yearly growth rate of industrial production, which closed at 5.4% in September 2018, fell to 1.3% by June this year (see chart).
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WOLF STREET REPORT: How Negative Interest Rates Screw Up the Economy
Now they’re clamoring for the NIRP absurdity in the US. How will this end?
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Freight Shipments Suffer Steepest Drops since Financial Crisis
For Trucking and Railroads, it’s Hangover Time.
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Next Domino To Fall: Inventory Glut Plagues US Auto Sector
"The inventory glut reflects a continued cooling of the US auto market."
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Lost Within the Rate Cut: Fed’s Drive to Establish a New Payment System
Part way through delivering a press conference following the Federal Reserve’s first rate cut since December 2008, chairman Jerome Powell let it be known that the central bank was ‘look…
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Morgan Stanley: "Both The Fed, And The Trade War Puts Have Now Expired"
"Everyone in April and through the beginning of May thought that the economy was going to get better in the back half of the year, trade war was going to sort of settle, certainly not escalate. Now we’re just in a very different world where I don’t think that’s true."
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Trump: Fed Should Cut Rates by 1% 'with Some Quantitative Easing'
The president said the Fed has been hampered by a "horrendous lack of vision" and said it should institute 100 basis points worth of reductions in its benchmark rate.
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"No Recession in Sight": Translating Trump and Kudlow
President Trump and his economic advisor Larry Kudlow have important announcements. I can help with translations.
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Silver Market: Indicators Setting up for a Big Move
If we look at certain indicators in the silver market, the price is setting up for a big move.
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Notes From Underground: Another Fine Mess You Got Us Into
The present outcome of HIGHER BONDS, HIGHER STOCKS, HIGHER PRECIOUS METALS, is the culmination of central banks quoting “EVERMORE.”
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