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markets believe the fed will throttle down qt for the Jan FOMC meeting. Not even waiting to level out on march.
They have been cooking the narrative that inflation is gone for 3 months now. Its not gone. USA hasnt replaced its crude stategic reserves yet since selling it all to europe. Spring sowing season hasnt started yet, so food/fertilizer prices isnt reflective for the rest of the year.
worst part of it is the fed still has not unwound 2,624,735 Million usd of housing bonds out of 8-9 trillion total off their books.
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853 billion interest on total debt for 2022. More than their 2023 defense budgeet
Fed: More hikes likely, inflation is "slowing"
Markets: QE november, no balls
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@IAMAL_PHARIUS I sound like a broken record, but every economic stat put out by the FedGov is total bullshit at this point
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Bambozzled
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@DW2 @IAMAL_PHARIUS I'm of the opinion that every economic stat put out by most governments are bullshit.
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US CPI despite using new methodology is higher than expected.They have adjusted data for the last 2 months as well.
This causes the data to present a more significant difference between Jan and previous months.
CPI YoY: 6.4%, Forecasted 6.2%
Last month 6.5
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Fed rate futures (feb) show so that the market believe there is a rate cut this year. But to drop the 6.4% schizo CPI number down to 2% target without large hikes is impossible.
YOY CPI will very probably stay there for the rest of the year if Powell gives up by march and announces a success. stagflation and depression keywords will be banned and blamed on someone(china,russia,conspiracy theorist).
Fed still has 2.6 trillion dollars of housing bonds on its books. They might hike rates till all of it rots on their hand but very unlikely (no one is gonna buy that knowing it will fail).