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Bond investors warn: Brace for INEVITABLE RECESSION caused by Fed’s continued RATE HIKES

June 16, 2023 - bonds, on the grounds that when central banks are forced to switch to a pause or to looser policy, they will outperform. He sees the 10-year Treasury yield falling to three percent by year-end, nearly 75 basis points below the current level, as markets start to realize the recession will be deeper than most think.

Allianz Global Investors portfolio manager Mike Riddell meanwhile said stocks, bonds and corporate debt are mis-pricing the risks – and that only ...

COLLAPSE? Bond bloodbath commences as Fed’s desperate fight against inflation fails

October 27, 2023 -

It is also finally admitting it cannot normalize interest rates after having spent 18 months believing in the hype about a Fed pivot and rate cuts to something like zero percent that would be forced on the Fed by a steep recession, with lots of forever-quantitative easing (QE) to follow.

The latest retail report reflected high increases in retail sales that were in good part due to high increases in inflation. Richter called the occurrence a "bond bloodbath....

Trump’s fraud case bond payment reduced to $175 million, delaying AG James’ efforts to seize assets

22 days ago -

This is the ruling of a New York appeals court that decided Trump has just 10 days from March 26 to pay the $175 million bond for his civil fraud case.

Back in February, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump and his co-defendants, which include his two adult sons and several former Trump Organization executives, to fork over $460 million in damages and interest for making fraudulent valuations of Trump's business assets.

The appellate ...

DUMPING DEBT: Nearly two dozen countries, including many US allies, are dumping their US Treasury bond holdings

July 31, 2023 -

China began its long process of selling off its massive U.S. debt holdings in June 2019, when it was removed from its top spot as the largest foreign owner of U.S. Treasuries as Japan increased its own bond holdings. By April 2022, U.S. Treasuries held by the Chinese dropped below the $1 trillion mark.

From December 2022 to March, China sold over $31.3 billion in U.S. debt. By the end of July, China once again sold $46.2 billion in U.S. Treasuries. Current estimates ...

Bond market ‘close to a crash,’ which is endangering the rest of Wall Street and Americans’ retirement accounts: Expert

October 17, 2022 - bond market, in part, because 'there is $50 trillion more in world debt today than there was in 2018.' And that will hurt equities," van Doorn writes.

"The bond market dwarfs the stock market — both have fallen this year, although the rise in interest rates has been worse for bond investors because of the inverse relationship between rates (yields) and bond prices," he continued. "About 600 institutional investors from 23 countries participate ...

Brace yourself: Ongoing Treasury bond collapse ranks among worst in market crash history – and the carnage has only just begun

October 09, 2023 -

According to reports, Treasury bonds with maturities of 10 years or more have plummeted 46 percent since March 2020 when the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) "pandemic" was declared as cover for the hemorrhaging financial system and mini-crash that occurred around that same time.

The last time Treasury bond losses were this large was back during the dot-com bubble burst at the turn of the 21st century.

Meanwhile, the bond rout is currently ...

Bond villain-like mad climate scientist and virtue signaling CEO named “Iseman” (like Iceman) wants to freeze the world by polluting the skies with sulfur particles

January 04, 2023 -

Through the sale of "cooling credits," Iseman, who compared himself to a "Bond villain," says geoengineering activism is the way forward, even though it has no scientific backing and will likely destroy the planet and its many delicate ecosystems.

"We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult," Iseman joked, adding that his newfound caricature as some kind of movie bad guy "is going to be helpful to certain groups."

Even so, ...

The EVERYTHING BUBBLE, led by bonds, is about to BURST – just in time for WWIII

October 22, 2023 -

Take the ongoing "bond bloodbath," as Wolf Richter calls it. Delusions about the Federal Reserve's fight with inflation are finally giving way as reality sets in that inflation is not going away. It is not transitory like notorious liar Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen kept saying, and there does not really appear to be any way to stop it.

Long-term yields are right at the point of breaking 5 percent – the last time this happened was in 2007, and we all know ...

Multibillionaire eBay founder invests in private security startups while donating nearly $2M to defund police

May 31, 2023 -

Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire founder of eBay, invested money in several privacy security startups like Uber for Bodyguards. He did that while donating nearly $2 million to organizations that advocate defunding and abolishing the police.

Omidyar has an estimated fortune of $8.91 billion. As per Forbes magazine's latest rankings in 2023, he is currently ranked as the 220th wealthiest person in the world. He is recognized as the founder of First Look Media, the ...

Bonding with your kids in today's tech-obsessed world

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Bonding with your kids in today's tech-obsessed world

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Unstable U.S. Treasury market experiences its worst day in the last six months

November 14, 2023 -

On the same day, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told reporters at the International Monetary Fund conference in Washington that another interest-rate hike aimed at curbing inflation is still possible, unleashing a surge in short-term yields.

Everyone has already been noticing the sharp rise in yields in recent months. In early October, the U.S. 10-year hit the highest yield level in 16 years, which is about five percent. Because of this, rate hikes by the Fed ...

The U.S. and Israeli war agenda will bring the world into an economic DOOM LOOP, Andy Schectman warns Mike Adams

November 05, 2023 - bond market, for example, a lot of these very wealthy families have very large bond positions. And over the last three years, the bond portfolios that they have, in retrospect, will be the worst-performing bond market rally in history. Over the last three years, the 10-year Treasury is down 50 percent and increasing."

He explained that the rich are watching their wealth evaporate and they're being told that the banks aren't safe. They ...

Spot the difference? This is called “Black privilege” and it’s a very real thing…

June 28, 2023 - bond. In another “Subway Hero” incident, a brave young man by the name of Jordan Williams stabbed an ex-con who was attacking his girlfriend on the subway. Mr. Williams was also arrested, but was released with zero bond.

Spot the difference between the two men?

Spot the difference… pic.twitter.com/gdmr4fTnxU

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 15, 2023

Here’s a closeup of the headlines:Both of these men are heroes, and it ...

Spain’s idea to help Ukraine using SEIZED profits from frozen Russian assets deemed unviable

December 20, 2023 -

According to Egyptian geopolitics researcher Ahmed Adel, the move "creates doubt about its legality and presumed risks to financial stability." He then explained that the proposal has its roots in an October plan put forward by European Commission (EC) President Ursula von der Leyen. She said at the time that the EC is still working on this plan, which involves seizing the profits derived from Russian state assets frozen in Brussels and transferring them to Ukraine for the ...

Annualized federal debt interest cost surpasses $1T, Bloomberg analysis reveals

November 13, 2023 - bond yields, threatened the return of the so-called bond vigilantes, and led Fitch Ratings to downgrade U.S. government debt in August," the news site reported.

Moreover, Bloomberg Intelligence strategists Ira Jersey and Will Hoffman wrote in a research note that there will be further increases in Treasury coupon auctions and T-bills outstanding moving forward. "Besides deficits of over $2 trillion in the foreseeable future, climbing maturities following ...

Bonding with your kids in today's tech-obsessed world

July 10, 2015 - Bonding with your kids in today's tech-obsessed world

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Peter Schiff: Fed money magicians running out of rabbits

September 11, 2023 -

(Article republished from SchiffGold.com)

Oil prices continued to climb last week. Meanwhile, bond yields also continue to push higher.

As Peter pointed out, one of the big reasons CPI came down so quickly was falling energy prices.

But Peter said there was another significant factor – President Biden selling oil from the strategic oil reserve. Today, reserves are at a 40-year low.

At this point, the US economy could only ...

Intentional destruction

December 19, 2023 - bonds as both collateral and as underlying assets in derivatives contracts. Volatility in the government bond market can lead to a demand for more collateral underlying the derivatives markets precisely when government bond prices are declining. Falling bond prices erode the value of the existing IM.  Collateral demands skyrocket just as the value of current and would-be collateral is evaporating.

Again, the BIS:

Designed to fail

The ...

5 Tips on how to shield your finances from debt default

June 01, 2023 - bond allocation.

If you are employed, take time to review the investments tied to your retirement fund and make adjustments if necessary.

Stocks are traditionally riskier than bond investments and are more likely to fluctuate as the deadline approaches, and they will come under the most pressure in the coming days.

To address this, experts suggest considering increasing your bond allocation and opting for high-quality investments.Postpone ...

Salman Rushdie blasts publishers over censorship, warns free expression is under threat

May 17, 2023 -

Speaking in a video message at the British Book Awards this week, the Booker Prize winner said that freedom of expression has never been under as big of a threat as it is facing now in Western countries, although this has long been an issue elsewhere.

“Obviously, there are parts of the world where censorship has been prevalent for a long time. Quite a lot of the world: Russia, China, in some ways, India as well. But in the countries of the West, until recently, there was ...