Editor’s note: I’m including this older article by Wolf Richter today because it helps explain why today’s CPI does not reflect soaring rent increases that
A thorough explanation of the labor market and the shortages that are dogging it, the impact of labor shortages on wages, and of wages on
The most reckless Fed ever is on the move finally with the biggest rate hike since 2000. QT is next, but it will be too
From Brian McGlinchey’s Stark Realities Substack: There’s much to despise about economic sanctions. Aside from the fundamental immorality of making innocent individuals suffer for the sins
From Michael Snyder’s Economic Collapse blog: For years, there was a great debate about what the future of our society would look like. The irrational
From TomWoods.com: A reader wrote to me yesterday to ask about, and politely challenge, some of what I had written. He’s a supporter and sympathizer
From Economic Prism: The Federal Reserve, through a multi-decade series of shady practices, finds itself in a very disagreeable place. Policies of extreme market intervention
From Gerald Celente’s Trends Journal: The global economy is in FREEFALL, inflation is surging, and debts/deficits are skyrocketing. Real wages, personal income weighed against inflation,
Excerpted from comments on previous DollarCollapse.com posts: “Powell The Pivoter Cannot Now Pivot Back To Dove” — February 7 Just about everybody seems to think
From Pento Portfolio Strategies: The current Fed Chair is perhaps best known for his quick pivots from hawkish back to dovish and vice versa. Maybe
Those dancing robots are definitely scary. But they’re big, so we might be able to see them coming, which gives us a fighting chance. But
In 2018, the Fed tried to moderate its post-Great Recession emergency policy of low interest rates and torrential money printing. It reduced (or tapered) its
This is a time of almost supernaturally-easy money. US financial conditions, in fact, have never been this accommodative, which is why junk bonds, CLOs, NTFs,
Commentary on America’s overvalued stock market can be found pretty much everywhere these days. These arguments are compelling, and are becoming more so as stocks
Lacking monetary printing presses, US cities and states tend to behave more like normal economic entities than do most nations. That is, they’re always balanced
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