Heads Up: Something big is going down. Just about every commodity is collapsing in price. Things deteriorated so much that all the supply chain metrics have become way less constrained

OIL FUTURES EXTEND LOSSES, U.S. CRUDE DOWN BY $5 A BARREL — RedboxGlobal (@RedboxWire) August 15, 2022 Bloomberg Commodity Index: drawdowns from peak %. $BCOM pic.twitter.com/bT4kVonzKC — Paul de Jong 🌐 (@pauldejong_) August 14, 2022 https://twitter.com/psimpsonmorgan/status/1558585358886977536 https://twitter.com/macro_daily/status/1559157758930337793 Two really awful …

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Reality of Inflation: Almost every commodity is in extreme backwardation, 10y breakeven inflation is less than 3%, US Dollar Index is up 15+% YoY

by lulzcakes Backwardation A commodity’s spot price trading lower higher than some given future contract is, in cases, normal (e.g. seasonality or perishable commodities). The backwardation we are seeing today is extreme by any standards. [Sorry, typo. Backwardation is spot > future. Although …

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Commodity houses running short on liquidity, cause of commodity drop

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/energy/too-big-to-fail-risk-looms-over-commodities/2022/03/16/d6bc2ef0-a4f6-11ec-8628-3da4fa8f8714_story.html Wondering why commodity prices have been dropping despite the supply/demand imbalance. Well, commodity trading houses have seen margin calls and are short of liquidity, many have been unable to buy commodities to be delivered to refiners/end users. Expect …

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Weekend Update: US Q1 GDP Falls To 0.6%, Treasury 10Y-2Y Curve Flattens and Commodity Prices UP 52% Under Biden (Ports Still Clogged)

by confoundedinterest17 Russia is still attacking Ukraine and I am still seeing stories about actor/comedian Bob Saget’s cause of death. So now for something completely different. After last week’s Personal Consumption Expenditures, GDP and new home sales reports, the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow …

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Commodity Prices Are Exploding Out Of Control; Food Prices Climbing Closer Toward Record High…

  https://twitter.com/baw690/status/1488879350329970690 Janet Yellen defended the size of the stimulus package that many blame for fueling inflation, though she conceded that describing rising prices as “transitory” was a mistake. — unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) February 3, 2022 Food Prices Climbing Closer Toward …

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Russell Brand: If you don’t trust the media, watch this … Joe Mazumdar: Why this commodity supercycle is different … Peter Grandich: We’re in the mother of all financial bubbles …

BY JOHN RUBINO  Russell Brand: If you don’t trust the media, watch this … Joe Mazumdar: Why this commodity supercycle is different … Peter Grandich: We’re in the mother of all financial bubbles … Clem Chambers: Bitcoin winter is here, $10,000 …

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Commodity prices up 50%, real estate up 38%, and 3 of 4 Bank of Canada measurements show consumer prices inflation above target. What’s the government’s solution? Print more money.

Commodity prices up 50%, real estate up 38%, and 3 of 4 Bank of Canada measurements show consumer prices inflation above target. What’s the government’s solution? Print more money. pic.twitter.com/PTzJulRmjG — Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) May 2, 2021 Meanwhile in US… …

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