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    • Debt Addiction Strangles GDP Growth

      The “spend at all cost” fiscal policy of the past number of decades subsidized by dovish monetary policy has led to decades of anemic Real GDP growth. It’s about to get worse. Our expectation is that the new “normal” for Real GDP will be zero percent over the next decade. Thank the genius triumvirate of…

    • Inflation Reduction Act Ensures Stagflation

      If voted into law the Inflation Reduction Act will ensure more deficit spending, more Federal debt, more taxes, negligible Real GDP growth, low interest rates and high inflation – a recipe for continued Stagflation. What does stagflation look like? You are living it. The earmarks of stagflation are high inflation, high Federal debt and negligible…

    • CPI Release On Wednesday: Our Thoughts

      We expect the June CPI figure to come in around 9% when CPI data is released Wednesday at 8:30am ET. What do we expect for a Fed Funds Rate increase? If the CPI comes in at 8.0-8.5%, we expect that the Fed will increase the Fed Funds Rate by 75 basis points at its FOMC…

    • Investors Will Care Once The Fed Tightens

      We are not buying the happy talk that investors have digested a winding down of QE and a potential Fed Funds Rate hike in late 2022 or 2023. When the Fed begins to tighten (tapering of QE followed by lifting interest rates), markets will care. It is not logical to suggest that investors have largely…

    • The Fed Expanded Its Balance Sheet Amidst Tightening Chatter

      Amidst the talk of the Fed potentially tightening monetary policy in 2023 or even next year, the Fed expanded its Balance Sheet at its fastest pace since March 17th of this year, growing assets 1.4% from the week prior. This narrative of the Fed potentially becoming more hawkish needs to be put into perspective. With…

    • The Fed’s Options To Fight Inflation Are Limited

      The Federal Reserve has two primary tools that it may use to fight inflation: halting the printing press and raising interest rates. The first option is unlikely given Treasury Chief Yellen and Fed Chief Powell are operating in lock step. The Fed is limited in its use of the second option. If the Fed were…

    • Powell Just Told Us Why Interest Rates Will Remain Low

      “Given the low level of interest rates, there’s no issue about the United States being able to service its debt at this time or in the foreseeable future,” – Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Maintaining low rates to minimize debt service expense is top of mind with the Fed as we wrote last week and as…

    • A More Hawkish Fed Is Not In The Cards This Year

      The U.S. Just Passed $1.9 Trillion In Debt-Funded “Relief”. Now Is Not The Time For The Fed To Raise Rates. Yield Curve Control Is On The Horizon. Some expect the Federal Reserve to become more hawkish in the near-term. We don’t see it. Not with $1.9 Trillion in new Government debt. The Fed will eventually…

    • Brace for Anemic Long-Term Real GDP Growth

      The three-headed Hydra of low labor participation, increased debt levels and higher taxes will cripple U.S. long-term Real GDP growth for decades. Labor participation is not going back to December 2019 levels. To believe that scenario is wishful thinking. For starters, 25% of restaurants and bars are permanently closed. Those jobs are not returning. Second,…

    • Long Rates Continue To Climb As Inflation Persists. Nothing To See Here.

      The Fed would have us believe “There’s nothing to see here,” (to quote Frank Drebin), as it relates to inflation. Consumer spending funded by government debt is of inferior quality as compared to spending funded by increased production. In January Americans spent their debt-funded government checks that were mailed out at the end of December.…