Why mortgage rates are NOT going up now, but...
• CNN MoneyThat's the fear mongering that some are telling homeowners and homebuyers after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates -- a tad -- off their historic lows Wednesday.
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Economy - Economics USA
Fed Results? Social Polarization and Economic Debasement
• The Daily BellThe good news is that the economy is recovering, according to this article. The bad news is that the Fed has started the clock running on the business cycle once again. As rates go up, economic activity gradually slows.
"That's Not Supposed To Happen" - Yield Curve Slumps To Flattest In 9 Months
• Zero HedgeThe Fed hiked... and the Treasury market threw up all over it, flattening the curve over 10bps in the last 16 hours (to 9 month lows).
"In Short Janet, It's Too Late" - Albert Edwards Calls It With These Seven Charts
• Zero HedgeIn the aftermath of the Fed's first rate hike, SocGen's famous skeptic and "Ice Age" deflationista, Albert Edwards, who formerly called Alan Greenspan an "economic war criminal", unloads on Yellen and says that not only is the Fed's hike too late,...
Investors Lose Faith - Slumping Stocks Give Up All Yellen Gains
• Zero HedgeIt appears the "what the market missed" that we detailed earlier - This sets the Fed on a collision course with the market because "with the market pricing fewer hikes than the Fed suggests, someone is going to end up being wrong," - is starting to f
Era of Easy Money Lives On in World Economy Even After Fed Shift
• http://www.bloomberg.comThe era of easy money in the world's major economies isn't close to being over.
Something Strange Is Taking Place In The Middle Of The Atlantic Ocean
• http://www.prisonplanet.comEarly last month, we noted that something very strange was happening off the coast of Galveston, Texas.
Atlas Shrugging
• Eric Peters AutosScrew Uncle [Sam]. We are in the business of building cars that must be appealing to our customers. If that means the cars are not "compliant" with the government's endless laundry list of demands so be it. How long before others do something similar
The Irony of Ending the U.S. Oil Export Ban Is Imports May Rise
• http://www.bloomberg.comThe lifting of the U.S. ban on oil exports might actually make imports more appealing.
How many college students will die from real-world stupidity if a financial collapse unfolds?
• Natural NewsThe Federal Reserve has just declared that it will no longer bail out failing banks. This is one of the key precursors to the coming systemic debt collapse that's mathematically inevitable.
Financial Instability & The Fed
• Zero HedgeThe argument that the Fed should do nothing - for it will be harder to correct a rate rise than to do nothing - because there is no bubble anywhere, demonstrates that we have the most serious BUBBLE in history.
When The End Of The Bubble Begins
• LewRockwellThey are going to layer their post-meeting statement with a steaming pile of if, ands & buts. It will exude an abundance of caution and a dearth of clarity.
Simon Black Explains the Confusing US Economy
• thedailybell.comTaking The Temperature Of The U.S. Economy. Is It Healthy? ... Seven years ago, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to zero. David Greene talks to David Wessel of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution about what impact this has had on t
Wall Street's Short Sellers Are Turning On Their Own
• bloomberg.comHedge fund investors can use reinsurer trade to offset risks Greenlight Re has dropped 45% this year, helping short sellers
Fed Ends Zero-Rate Era; Signals 4 Quarter-Point Increases in 2016
• bloomberg.comFed monitoring `actual and expected' progress on inflation Officials see economy warranting `only gradual' increases
Fed raises its key interest rate from record low near zero
• Associated PressThe Federal Reserve is raising interest rates from record lows set at the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, a shift that heralds modestly higher rates on some loans.
The Workplace Will Be Radically Different By 2025; Are You Ready?
• arcleinTo get insight into how to thrive in our fast-evolving economy, I spoke recently with Andrew Karpie, a research analyst at Azul Partners/Spend Matters. He covers the ways in which technology is changing how enterprises find and procure their continge
Deja Vu All Over Again: "The Coming Collapse Will Be Three Pronged"
• shtfplan.comJanet Yellen will increase interest rates for the first time in nine years on Wednesday.
Foreigners Sell A Record $55.2 Billion In US Treasuries In October
• Zero HedgeAfter several months of significant reserves liquidations by China (specifically by its Euroclear proxy "Belgium") which tracked the drop in China's reserves practically tick for tick, in October Chinese+Belgian holdings ...
The Global Commodity Crash Tells Us That A Major Deflationary Financial Crisis Is Imminent
• theeconomiccollapseblog.comIf we really are plunging into a deflationary global financial crisis, we would expect to see commodity prices crash hard.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
• google.comDec 11 - Close
The Fed's Painted Itself Into The Most Dangerous Corner In History
• Lew Rockwell - David StockmanWhy There Will Soon Be A Riot In The Casino
Jeremy Grantham Urges "Easily Manipulated" Americans To "Become More Realistic"
• Zero HedgeGive Me Only Good News! "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Attributed to Mark Twain)
Blowing Up the Death Star Didn't Destroy Economy, Building It Did
• https://www.lewrockwell.comA paper written by Zachary Feinstein discussing the economic consequences of blowing up the Death Star has been making the rounds on social media.
Middle class no longer dominates in the U.S.
• http://money.cnn.comThe once-strong middle class no longer dominates America.
Warning: Half of oil junk bonds could default
• http://money.cnn.comBrace for a wave of defaults in the oil patch.
Crude Surges After DOE Reports Biggest Inventory Draw In 4 Months
• Zero HedgeFollowing last night's unexpected inventory draw reported by API, DOE reported an even bigger draw of 3.568 million barrel (against expectations of a 1.3mm barrel build).
Crude Surges After DOE Reports Biggest Inventory Draw In 4 Months
• Zero HedgeFollowing last night's unexpected inventory draw reported by API, DOE reported an even bigger draw of 3.568 million barrel (against expectations of a 1.3mm barrel build).
Guess What Happened The Last Time Junk Bonds Started Crashing Like This? Hint:
• theeconomiccollapseblog.comThink 2008
Corporate Loan Charge-Offs and Delinquencies Surge
• davidstockmanscontracorner.comIn one of our recent updates on the weakness in the manufacturing sector we have mentioned the surge in the sum of charge-offs and delinquencies of commercial and industrial loans at US banks (hat tip to our friend BC, who inspired the chart below).
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