-$167.2 billion! From March 2023 to April 2023, M2 (U.S. money stock–currency and coins held by the non-bank public, checkable deposits, and travelers’ checks, plus savings deposits, small time deposits under 100k, and shares in retail money market funds) DECREASED by $167.2 billion.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Money Stock Measures – H.6 Release https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h6/current/default.htm M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, …

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Janet Yellen just warned of more bank failures to come at the same time that debt ceiling talks are suspended. Today is the last day of the month to keep the market artificially bid using call options.

Janet Yellen just warned of more bank failures to come.https://t.co/eRNWyF40LV Good thing to learn on a Friday afternoon at the same time that debt ceiling talks are suspended. pic.twitter.com/J1EHKFFZpu — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) May 19, 2023 This country is a mess …

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Biden’s Mortgage Market Bad Wine Hangover! Mortgage Purchase Demand Down -42.4% Since 04/16/21 (Mortgage Demand Down -5.7% Since Last Week, Mortgage Purchase Demand Down -26% YoY, Mortgage Refi Demand Down -43% YoY)

by confoundedinterest17 Biden’s economy and mortgage market are like a bad wine hangover. Thanks to inflation and The Fed’s tightening to fight inflation, mortgage purchase demand is down a staggering -42.4% since April 2021. Mortgage applications decreased 5.7 percent from one …

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3 times now in the last 5 days hedge funds have been called out for receiving the vast majority of their repo financing in the non-centrally cleared market, where haircuts or initial margin requirements are not necessarily applied and that this might create greater risk in times of stress. Why?

by Dismal-Jellyfish Looks like the Nellie Liang description was cutoff–here it is in full: “Staff at FSOC member agencies have been working to improve monitoring systems to identify potential emerging financial stability risks posed by highly-leveraged hedge funds. Work in this regard …

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CFTC Commissioner Pham Announces Proposed Work Program for CFTC Global Markets Advisory Committee and Seeks PUBLIC Input by May 30. Topics include: derivatives market reform, recommendations on regulation of NFTs, recommendations to improve trade reporting for swaps market oversight.

by Dismal-Jellyfish Source: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8703-23 Commissioner Caroline D. Pham announced today the 2023-2025 proposed work program for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), including the Global Market Structure Subcommittee, the Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee, and the Technical Issues …

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Morgan Stanley expects a -0.4% GDP in the second quarter in the U.S…The market is expecting the Fed to start cutting rates very soon… Fed’s Goolsbee: I’m getting the “vibes’ that a credit squeeze is beginning.

Morgan Stanley expects a -0.4% GDP in the second quarter in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/Ksns6UdD2N — Daniel Lacalle (@dlacalle_IA) May 8, 2023 The market is expecting the Fed to start cutting rates very soon pic.twitter.com/cGkUvk3vil — Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA (@GRDecter) May …

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