Showing posts with label Janet Yellen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Janet Yellen. Show all posts
Monday, February 24, 2025

In the aggregate US Treasury yields haven't moved much since the end of November, after which duration began to normalize, but looky here

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 On Nov 29, 2024 the yield curve averaged 4.356 in the aggregate, after which we began to see duration normalize. On Feb 21, 2025 it average...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Trump's new Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, has given Elon Musk control of the payment systems which control everyone's Social Security and Medicare benefits

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   Billionaire Elon Musk’s deputies have gained access to a sensitive Treasury Department system responsible for trillions of dollars in U.S...
Friday, September 20, 2024

CNBC fact-checks Joe Biden, now that it doesn't matter

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 But the article name-checks Donald Trump five times because he's an opponent of Fed decisions. There's a whole movement out there ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Janet Yellen: Sexual abuse of female employees at FDIC under Martin Gruenberg "totally unacceptable"

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen   signaled her displeasure,   telling reporters Tuesday that “the kind of abuses that were documented in the...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

More like a stick-up, Janet

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  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: U.S. Economy Is "Firing On All Cylinders," "Consumers Are Holding Up" The dollar buys...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

Lyin' Joe Biden's IRS is auditing the middle class, not the rich as promised

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 Discussed here :   "As of last summer, 63% of new audits targeted taxpayers with income of less than $200,000,"   reports   the  ...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

The Hunter Biden special prosecutor, David Weiss, is the Delaware US Attorney appointed by Trump who signed off on the softball agreement thrown out by the judge in the first place

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Merrick Garland's evil genius: Appoint a screw-up appointed by Trump to place him and the Hunter investigation off the political stage a...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

Communist babushka arrives in China seeking fellow travelers

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  Janet Yellen arrives in Beijing on mission to find common ground for U.S. and China
Thursday, November 3, 2022

The Fed chair was looking for evidence of transitory inflation for twelve months while actual, raging inflation was staring him in the face the whole time and he did nothing about it

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 In his testimony yesterday, Jerome Powell said he uses a table of the last twelve months of 12-month readings of inflation.  In other words...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Not the rainy day your mother had in mind: Janet Yellen whips out her tin ear for politics, suggests you use your savings to weather inflation

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Yellen: Recession Isn't Inevitable, Most Consumers Have "Buffer Stocks" Of Savings To Offset Inflation
Friday, September 6, 2019

Just 3,000 full-time jobs created in Aug 2019 as Trump bump runs out of steam

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Full-time increased to 132.156 million in Aug 2019 from 132.153 million in July, an increase of just 3,000.   Average full-time in 2019...
Monday, October 3, 2016

Yellen is political, talk of a future put in the form of the Fed buying stocks last week was intended to backstop the market this month

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And a buoyant market in October 2016 will only help Clinton. Yellen should be impeached immediately. Reuters reported here  last T...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Hillary gets the best she can from Janet Yellen: Economy still too weak for the Fed to further normalize interest rates

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Actually, the Fed is too weak morally to normalize interest rates, and won't move until after the election. A December hike if Trump i...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

At new book launch, Trump accuses Janet Yellen of keeping interest rates low to protect Obama's reputation

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Donald Trump, quoted here by AP/Obama: '"In my opinion Janet Yellen is highly political and she's not raising the rate...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Brian Wesbury is wrong: First rate hike will not be in six months

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Brian Wesbury & Co. here says the first Fed rate hike is coming in six months (June) because "considerable time" has secr...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Carnage in Commodities: Gold/Oil Ratio soars to 18.08

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Gold continues to lose ground to plunging oil prices, making oil the preferred investment of the two, if you had to chose between them. ...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Market cap to GDP ratios March 2009 vs. March 2014 flash valuation warning

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Probably the broadest measure for stock market valuation purposes is total stock market capitalization divided by GDP. Warren Buffett uses i...
Saturday, May 10, 2014

Two members of the fascist oligarchy have a little fun with the rubes and pretend they're not part of it

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"Are we still a capitalist democracy or have we gone over into an oligarchic form of society in which incredible economic and polit...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Janet Yellen's Fool's Errand: Finding A Way To Fix What's Supposedly Fixed

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Everybody believes the financial crisis is over, but apparently Janet Yellen does not. She's more right than she knows, but that...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Janet Yellen Is Not Certain That "Too Big To Fail" Has Ended

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Quoted here : “I'm not positive that we can declare with confidence,” she said, “that ‘too big to fail’ has ended until it's tested ...