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• https://steemit.com"Bitcoin Caucus" co-founder Mick Mulvaney is the United States next Director of Office of Management and Budget.
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"Bitcoin Caucus" co-founder Mick Mulvaney is the United States next Director of Office of Management and Budget.
Will the leading critic of the Federal Reserve become a member of its Board of Directors under President Trump?
In her rate hike announcement last week, Janet Yellen said the Fed was so confident in the health of the US economy that it was raising the Federal Funds rate by a paltry quarter point.
I still suspect there is enough bullish exuberance currently to push the Dow to 20,000 and the S&P to 2,300 by the end of the year. However, I am more concerned about what happens next.
Underfunded government pensions to the tune of $1.3 trillion, with a gap that just can't be filled, is the ticking time bomb facing the US economy which faces dramatic cuts in public services - and potentially riots reminiscent of Athens six years
Rate Hikes During The Trump Era. Now that Donald Trump has won the election, the Federal Reserve has decided now would be a great time to start raising interest rates and slowing down the economy. Over the past several decades, the U.S. economy has
Now that Donald Trump has won the election, the Federal Reserve has decided now would be a great time to start raising interest rates and slowing down the economy.
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Now that Donald Trump has won the election, the Federal Reserve has decided now would be a great time to start raising interest rates and slowing down the economy.
This afternoon the Federal Reserve is expected to announce the first interest rate hike of the year and only the second since June, 2016. What do they base this on? Do they have the right data?
Fed Hikes Rates For First Time In 2016, Increases Pace Of Rate 'Normalization' Forecast
This seemed an appropriate place to start... Make sense right?
The key economic releases this week are retail sales on Wednesday and CPI on Thursday.
In early 2009, roughly at the time when this blog was launched which coincided with the start of the greatest monetary experiment of all time, we warned that there are two ways it will end: either in hyperinflation, or a deflationary supernova, the f
Bob Bryan for Business Insider reports, As President-elect's Donald Trump's transition rolls on, more and more attention is being paid to possible selections for a variety of high-ranking positions and meetings that might help decide these appoin
Former Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher recently gave a speech identifying the Federal Reserve's easy money/low interest rate policies as a source of the public anger that propelled Donald Trump into the White House.
Coverage of central banks and monetary policy in popular financial media outlets like Bloomberg, Financial Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and The Economist is almost uniformly bad. The reporting and analysis are superficial, and the writers tend
A lot has changed since the November 2nd FOMC statement - most notably the world has suddently become awesome again.
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If Donald Trump truly wants to fix the economy, he must shut down the Federal Reserve.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen signaled the U.S. central bank is close to lifting interest rates as the economy continues to create jobs at a healthy clip and inflation inches higher.
Industrial production had another weak month. October came in at 0.0% and September was revised from +0.1% to -0.2%.
Research has documented that central banks around the world have been better able to control inflation if they enjoy independence from elected officials. The election of Donald Trump seems like a good time to remind ourselves that, historically, the
On election night, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani told MSNBC interviewer Chris Matthews that Donald Trump's victory, after a campaign against the elites and insiders, was like Andrew Jackson's first presidential victory.
One of the burning questions troubling Wall Street this morning, now that stocks have managed to successfully absorb last night's limit down selling and most recently were trading at highs of the day, ...
Greenspan Foresees 5% Interest Rates: "Only One Long-Term Direction and That is Up"
The Fed's latest consumer credit report revealed that in September, overall household credit rose by a greater than expected $19.3 billion, above the $18 billion expected, if below last month's near-record $26.8 billion.
The Real Reason the FED isn't Raising Rates Hint: The Stock market predicts the election 86% of the time and why Donald Trump thinks its rigged
In the seventeenth episode of the second season of the Comedy Central cartoon South Park, the show introduces one of its longest lasting memes that has survived despite the first airing being nearly twenty years ago, and all the vulgarity and seeming
Blackrock estimates there is a whopping $50 trillion in cash "sitting on the sidelines".