Month: October 2023
Counter-Intuitive Inflation – How Rate Hikes Can Be Inflationary and Why It’s Different This Time
This is an excerpt from Counter-Intuitive Inflation. We’ll be posting sections over the first two weeks of October. How Rate Hikes Can Be Inflationary and Why It’s Different This Time: What we’ve shown above is how overspending leads to inflation, and that the US government has no plans to curtail spending. For now, that includes … Read more
Counter-Intuitive Inflation – Uncontrollable Spending Leads to an Unsolvable Problem
This is an excerpt from Counter-Intuitive Inflation. We’ll be posting sections over the first two weeks of October. Uncontrollable Spending Leads to an Unsolvable Problem: There are three huge parts to the US Government’s budget. Right now, there is no appetite to cut military spending, but that’s going to happen in the future. The remaining … Read more
5 Things to Know in Investing This Week – September 29th, 2023
The Shutdown Isn’t an Issue Issue Lots of interesting news this week where we address these important questions: Is the coming government shutdown a real problem or just theater? Counter-intuitive inflation: Is there anything the Federal Reserve can do? New home sales plummeting – from already low levels! Smart Bitcoiner takes aim at sovereign debt. … Read more
Counter-Intuitive Inflation – How Overspending Creates Inflation
This is an excerpt from Counter-Intuitive Inflation. We’ll be posting sections over the first two weeks of October. How Overspending Creates Inflation: Right now, the US Congress is running a $2 trillion annual deficit. That’s the on-balance sheet number, and the one we see associated with the $33 trillion national debt. When you include off-balance … Read more
Counter-Intuitive Inflation – Introduction
This is an excerpt from Counter-Intuitive Inflation. We’ll be posting sections over the first two weeks of October. Introduction: During inflationary times, and especially when we have high employment and growing GDP, the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to reduce inflation. Raising interest rates is a crude tool, but historically, an effective one. Now, some … Read more