Economist: America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars…Business Insider: Housing is so unaffordable that banks are losing money for each mortgage they finance for the first time ever

They said: Over the past year those in commercial banks have sunk by half a trillion dollars, a drop of nearly 3%. This makes the financial system more fragile, since banks must shrink to repay their deposits. Read more: https://t.co/qaaObFsmKK …

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IMF chief economist: “below the surface…turbulence is building, and the situation is quite fragile as the recent bout of banking instability reminded us,” adding that the odds of a recession have “risen sharply.”

IMF: “Turbulence is building,” “hard landing” ahead for global economy. “Below the surface … turbulence is building, and the situation is quite fragile, as the recent bout of banking instability reminded us,” IMF director of research Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said in …

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Fed Economist: Home Prices Could Plunge 20%

via Fox Business U.S. home prices could tumble as much as 20% as the highest mortgage rates in two decades threaten to trigger a “deep global housing slide,” according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The global housing market has become increasingly …

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Obama Economist: Stagflation Mega Threat

Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com The danger of the U.S. economy returning to a 1970s-style stagflation scenario is the highest it’s been in decades, according to former President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser. Jason Furman, a Harvard University professor …

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Clinton/Obama Economist: Stagflation Is Coming

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight,” Harvard Professor, economist, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers said he’d be shocked if we still didn’t have meaningful …

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Economist 2022 Cover Clues

by TrixieMama I’d like to revisit the cover of the Economist for 2022 and see if anyone else sees some things that might have been missed back in November when another OP posted their original thread (linked at bottom). While looking …

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