The reality is that with unprecedented levels of debt and minimal savings, U.S. interest rates should be much higher than their historic norms. But rates have stayed low because the Fed has been able to artificially suppressing them. The markets are about to change that fast.
— Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) February 21, 2018
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- SEP Commentary "The Investment Game is not so much about holding a good Hand as playing a bad Hand well" published. http://bit.ly/1MY9KUc
- Hope springs eternal. After having initially forecast 2017 Q4 #GDP growth at 4.5%, only to see it come in at just 2.6% (likely to be revised lower next month), the Atlanta Fed's initial read on 2018 Q1 GDP is 4.2%. Let the GDP limbo begin.
- http://bit.ly/1grU8wm
- Given how large past #Republican deficits have been relative to the initial rosy projections when the goal was to balance in 10 years, imagine how much further off the mark #Trump's deficits will be when even the pretense of eventual balance has been dropped!
- I'm watching the #DemocraticDebate. It should be call "Dumb, Dumber, & Dumbest." I just need to decided who's who!
- This budget deal is a disaster. It ads 400 billion to the debt over the next 2 years. The 80 billion in disaster relief is one time (until the next disaster), but the 160 billion in spending will recur every year. Over 10 years that adds another 1.6 trillion to the national debt.
- 10-year U.S. treasury yields just touched 2.9%. This is a new high for the move. The rise in response to the CPI was delayed by the initial plunge in stock market futures. But now that stocks have recovered most of their losses, bonds are plunging.
- Too bad you can't short the Atlanta Fed's Q1 GDP forecast. It started at 5.4%, then dropped to 4% a week later, and today its down to 3.2% That's a 40% drop in about 2 weeks. I wonder how many more weeks it will take for the number to fall below 2%?
- @DancewtheReaper Yep, they have been buying the dips the whole way down. I supposed this rally we also fail, and we will break to new lows soon.
- Watch me weigh in on the recently released CPI numbers and the return of inflation: https://t.co/e98qNEU6qb