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Home price growth of the sort we’ve seen in recent years simply cannot be sustained without a continued commitment to easy money from the central bank, and it shows. Home prices continued to slide in August as the economy cooled, and as the Fed hit the Pause button on quantitative easing while allowing interest rates to rise. Home prices in August were 13.0 percent higher nationally compared with August 2021, according to newly released data from the S&P...

Credit Suisse is banking on petrodollars from Saudi Arabia to shore up its precarious situation. Keystone / Oliver Berg Swiss bank Credit Suisse has returned to the Middle East to shore up its finances amid mounting losses and a deteriorating balance sheet. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority, built up a 5% stake in Switzerland’s second largest bank. Now the Saudi National Bank has accepted...

Money supply growth fell again in September, dropping to a 37-month low. August’s drop continues a steep downward trend from the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years. During the thirteen months between April 2020 and April 2021, money supply growth in the United States often climbed above 35 percent year over year, well above even the “high” levels experienced from 2009 to 2013. During September 2022, year-over-year (YOY) growth in the...

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The week ahead is important from a macro perspective. The data highlights include China's PMI, eurozone preliminary October CPI and Q3 GDP, and the US (and Canadian) employment reports. In addition, the Federal Reserve meeting on November 2 is sandwiched between the Reserve Bank of Australia meeting and the Bank of England meeting.Let us preview the data before turning to the central banks. Yet the challenge with the data is that the underlying macro views are...

Zugegeben, das aktuelle Jahr ist nicht das Jahr des Cryptomarktes. Angeführt vom Bitcoin verloren die meisten Cryptocoins in diesem Jahr deutlich an Wert – im Falle des BTC sind es mehr als zwei Drittel. Doch der Markt ist weiterhin ein heißes Eisen, wie die 5.000 neuen Cryptocoins, die dieses Jahr bereits entstanden, belegen. Crypto News: 5.000 neue Cryptocoins in 2022 widerlegen These vom Ende des CryptomarktesDer Markt befindet sich in einer Bärenphase, doch die...

Switzerland’s budget faces a sizeable deficit despite fewer pandemic costs than expected. Keystone / Gaetan Bally The coronavirus pandemic will have a lighter impact on Swiss state finances than previously feared but will still put the country’s budget in the red, the finance ministry forecasts. Measures to support companies and workers during the pandemic were expected to cost CHF7.4 million ($7.4 billion) during the last forecast in June. But on Wednesday, the...

One of the biggest reasons for people deciding to buy gold bars or to own silver coins is because of the folly of central banks and government. It seems bizarre to most people that we are all aware that money doesn’t grow on trees and yet those responsible for financial stability have forgotten this basic life-lesson. But, what has felt even more bizarre (and maddening) is for how long this foolishness has been allowed to continue. Well, it seems this won’t be the...

In recent decades, every instance in which the economy contracted two quarters in a row has coincided with a recession. Nonetheless, the Biden Administration and the leadership at the Federal Reserve insist there is no recession now, nor is one even in the works. On the other hand, declining GDP growth, rising credit card debt, disappearing savings, and falling disposable income all point to recession. And now one of the most closely watched recession indicators is...

For three weeks, even the mainstream media had to report on Switzerland and its US$ auctions. Then, abruptly, all that fuss just disappeared when the bidders did. Does this mean crisis averted? Not if history is any guide. The similarities between now and May 2010 are eerie - right down to the dollar swap issue, the financial instability, a foiled recovery, and eventually the QE restart. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffSnider_AIP...