Going into the COVID19 pandemic, the U.S. households cost of servicing debt and other financial obligations has been trending at historical lows. The data we have is through 1Q 2020. In April, personal disposable income rose 13.1 percent, before fallin…
I just had to update the Trumpassery of Coronavirus chart with the latest leadership pearl…The Commander in Beans…
New data for the week prior on continued and new unemployment claims continues to support a view of a relatively slow and slowing-down recovery in the U.S. labour markets.Continued unemployment claims:Continued unemployment claims in the week of July 4…
Term and Type: 19-Year 10-Month Bond
Reopening: Yes
Offering Amount: 17 Billion
Announcement Date: 07/16/2020
Auction Date: 07/22/2020
Issue Date: 07/31/2020
Fed QE: $1.199B TIPS Purchase 2020-07-16
It does sound impressive, maybe even encouraging. After two months of being shut down, industry in the US rebounded in June 2020 by the most in 60 years, and not one month during those intervening six decades was ever close. You have to go all the way back to December 1959 not just to find […]
The lower reaches of the financial food chain are already dying, and every entity that depended on that layer is doomed.Though under pressure from climate change, the dinosaurs were still dominant 65 million year ago–until the meteor struck, creating …
Fed QE: $3.601B Coupon Purchase 2020-07-15 NY Fed treasury securities operations
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
As with the French Revolution, that will be the trigger for a wholesale replacement of our failed institutions.Since it’s Bastille Day, a national holiday in France celebrating the French Revolution, let’s ask a question few even think (or dare) t…