From: Counting the Cost Inflation in the United States hit a 40-year high over the past 12 months and the Federal Reserve raised interest rates eight times to rein in price increases. But the policy […]
Authored by Rupert Darwall via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Politicians and climate activists portray net zero climate policies as a win-win: good for the planet, good for the economy. A recent example is “Mission […]
Having raised rates by 25bps (as expected) and offered a dovish bias to the statement with regard future rate-hikes, Fed Chair Powell now has the unenviable task of threading the needle between too-dovish (what does […]
Tl;dr: Fed hiked 25bps and maintains QT (as expected), and left the terminal rate (via the DotPlot) unchanged. However, it shifted a slightly more dovish guidance on future policy hikes and an admission that the […]
Authored by Yves Smith via NakedCapitalism.com, The incompetence of our financial regulators, most of all the Fed, is breathtaking. The great unwashed public and even wrongly-positioned members of the capitalist classes are suffering the consequences […]
Via Global Macro Monitor, Here is a follow-up on last week’s chart with some excellent granular detail. Interest payments on the national debt during the current fiscal year (October to February) are up 29 percent […]
After the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, U.S. clean energy start-ups and companies could face growing difficulties in accessing finance, which could slow the effect of a rapid renewable energy rollout intended […]
Authored by Simon Flint via Bloomberg, There is an argument that the Fed will stick to its inflation-fighting mission, because it needs to focus on restoring its credibility, and this keeps a 50bps hike in […]
The equity market may be enjoying an deeply oversold bounce (at least until the next bank crisis crushes sentiment again), but the same can not be said for the primary debt market – especially for […]
Half of the companies in the U.S. devoted to climate change and biotech banked with the now-failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), leaving many of those companies looking for financial backers willing to take on the […]
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