Inflation Alert! Fed releases Inflation Expectations Fall at Short-Term Horizon but Rise Slightly at Longer Horizons. One-year (4.4%), 3year (2.9%), and 5-year (2.6%) inflation expectations all higher than the Fed’s target of 2%. Inflation appears to be becoming anchored in consumers expectations.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/sce#/hhincexp-1 The main findings from the April 2023 Survey are: Inflation Median inflation expectations declined by 0.3 percentage point at the one-year-ahead horizon to 4.4%, but increased by 0.1 percentage point at the three- and five-year-ahead horizons to …

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Financial crisis and trade war on the horizon: We’re definitely in bear market territory. We probably see another leg down before the year end. a large number of investors will have to offload liquid assets to meet obligations

History suggests financial crisis on the horizon – Fed is hiking into an inverted yield curve, clock is ticking. pic.twitter.com/Yg9KmO3ex1 — Puru Saxena (@saxena_puru) November 8, 2022 *GERMANY WARNS US OF POSSIBLE TRADE WAR I said this weeks ago — …

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Systemic risk is on the horizon! In the last 5 days, the world just experienced a massive intervention to get ahead of a significant slowdown.

Credit Suisse’s systemic risk score reaches the highest since 2006/2007. Credit Suisse's systemic risk score reaches the highest since 2006/2007. pic.twitter.com/NYjPB4w1pg — Tracy Alloway (@tracyalloway) December 2, 2018 In the last 5 days, the world just experienced a massive intervention …

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China’s Next Revolution Is On The Horizon

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, The Mandate of Heaven will be withdrawn, and the autocratic regime overthrown. The absolute confidence that China’s political structure is permanent and forever is reminiscent of the absolute confidence in the 1980s …

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Pension Crisis on the Horizon

by FS We’ve often discussed problems facing state pension systems, but now we’re seeing the makings of a crisis forming over unfunded liabilities and state pension systems. This time on the Financial Sense Lifetime Income Series, Jim Puplava discusses what he …

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