Weekly Market Pulse: Time For A Taper Tantrum?
The Fed meets this week and is widely expected to say that it is talking about maybe reducing bond purchases sometime later this year or maybe next year or at least, someday. Jerome Powell will [...]
Eurodollar University’s Making Sense; Episode 99, Part 3: When Everyone Understands Why The Dollar Goes Up, We Celebrate Our Show’s Demise
99.3 US Dollar Gains Value - Bad News for the World ———Ep 99.3 Summary———In 1971, US Treasury Secretary John Connally told a group of European finance ministers that the US dollar "is our currency, but [...]
PracTICal Remainders and Reminders
As usual, a couple of additional odds and ends leftover from TIC that are worth a few brief mentions. And then a reminder of the caveats which come along with them (and all the interpretations). [...]
Dollar Warning Update From The Islands Which Started It
The first seeds of the eventual eurodollar bloom, in domestic US terms, were sown all way back in sixteen – as in the year 1916. Believe it or not, the Federal Reserve Act, then only [...]
Eurodollar University’s Making Sense; Episode 99, Part 2: Their Get Out of Deflation Free Card
99.2 LABOR SHORTAGE! A Fed 'Get out of Jail Free' card ———Ep 99.2 Summary———Labor shortages are normal, at the microscale, from time to time, in this or that industry. Yet since 2008, establishment economists use [...]
August Retail Sales Surprise To The Upside, Because They Were Down?
According to the movie The Princess Bride, the worst classic blunder anyone can make is to get involved in a land war in Asia. No kidding. The second is something about Sicilians and death. There [...]
Common vs Solemn Probate
Alhambra's Bob Williams describes the difference between Common and Solemn Probate and the pros and cons of each.
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