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15%  
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  • No Mystery To Me! US Banks on Bumpy Path as First Republic’s Troubles Persist (Senator Warren Calls For Investigation Into Banking)

    03/20/2023 6:05:18 AM PDT · by Kaiser8408a · 18 replies
    Confounded Interest ^ | 03/20/2023 | Anthony B. Sanders
    Its no mystery to me that San Francisco’s First Republic Bank is hurting. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is calling for hearings into the banking meltdown. Hey Liz, look at San Francisco’s First Republic Bank as a case study. The infamous Covid surge in M2 Money supply (green line) produced a big surge in bank price stocks, thanks in part to the insane spending that Congress made following Covid (I’m looking at you, Liz!). But now The Fed is slowing M2 Money growth and banks like First Republic are paying the price. As The Fed tightens, earnings per share for First...
  • Food Prices: is it just me or...

    01/02/2023 11:16:52 AM PST · by jimjohn · 96 replies
    Self | Jimjohn
    While shopping at our local food grocer, wagons noticed that the egg price has jumped nearly $2 per dozen. Understand that we had a supply chain interruption with the recent storm, but I'm wondering is anyone else noticing this in there.?
  • Inflation slowdown? Not in some cities, where consumer prices still top 12%

    11/11/2022 12:39:59 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 10 replies
    foxnews ^ | Megan Henney
    Mountain states have become a hotbed for inflation, with the region — which includes Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Idaho and Montana — reporting that prices soared 9.3% in October. The spike is even worse in certain cities: Phoenix, for instance, recorded the highest inflation rate among large cities, with prices up a stunning 12.1% last month. While that's down from a peak of 13% recorded earlier this year, that's likely little consolation to residents facing painfully high prices. The outsized increase is at least in part to soaring real estate prices as thousands of Americans look to...
  • Tucker Carlson: Inflation is not a temporary problem, it is real and it is here

    10/13/2021 4:26:13 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 15 replies
    Fox News ^ | 13 October 2021 | Tucker Carlson
    Tonight, the Fed is still partying with your currency like this is the richest country in the worldThere's probably no institution in American life that has more effect on how you live, but that we talk about less than the Federal Reserve. People don't care to talk about the Federal Reserve because it seems very complex and a lot of what it does is in fact complex. Unless you have a grounding in monetary policy, it's hard to know exactly what's going on. But the basics aren't that complicated, actually, and here are a few of them. The Federal Reserve...