US Industrial Production was expected to slow its re-acceleration in December with a 0.2% MoM increase versus November's 0.5% MoM rise, but things were notably worse with Industrial Production contracting by 0.1% MoM.
Did anyone out there actually expect things to turn out differently? When the federal government kept borrowing and spending trillions upon trillions of dollars that we did not have, we were warned that this day was coming.
Well, we are finally here: 2022 has arrived and the rate shock that BofA's bearish chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett has prophetically been warning about arrived right out of the gate, and with a bang as both nominal and real yields spiked
While it is traditionally viewed as a B-grade indicator, the November consumer credit report from the Federal Reserve was an absolute stunner and confirmed what we have been saying for month:
How are the dollars and cents of your life changing as we move into 2022? Peter Schiff joined University of Miami Business School Dean John Quelch and host Holland Cooke on RT's "Big Picture" to talk about the year ahead.
From coast to coast, we are seeing businesses close because they simply cannot find enough workers. In the entire history of the United States, we have never seen anything like this happen before.
The most dangerous Big-Government Qango of all may well be the Central Banks (not the NIH). Money drives all the incentives across national economies, but one small unelected group decides the price of money, and all corruption flows downstream from
Welcome to 2022!
The New Year's edition of the Economic Prism is a place of wild guesses and rough suppositions. Today we focus our eyes through our proprietary prism. We set our sights over a 12 month viewshed. What do we see?
Gerald Celente (American Trend Forecaster, Publisher of Trends Journal, Business Consultant, Author) comes on the show to discuss economic and market conditions, precious metals, what's in store for 2022, etc...
After new- and existing-home sales unexpectedly surged in November, analysts expected pending home sales to also rise in November (though far less than the huge jump in October).
Where did all the workers go? That is a great mystery that continues to be unsolved. All over America, businesses are literally hiring anyone with a pulse and there are "help wanted" signs all over the place.
Bloomberg News recently solicited advice from Argentinians who lived through that country's high inflation on how Americans should cope with rising inflation.
Back in 2018 leading up to Christmas the Federal Reserve began publicly flirting with the notion of ending asset purchases, reducing their balance sheet and committing to an all around taper of stimulus.
While the pandemic has spurred demand, leading to increased energy prices, the Biden administration's reliance on imports is a greater contributor to the increased costs of oil and gas
On my latest podcast, and my last podcast of 2021, I had the pleasure of speaking with my favorite economist, Peter Schiff. Peter is an American libertarian, stock broker, financial commentator, and radio personality.
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