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This is about the most insane economical history we have, also the first we have related, the financial crise in Rome 33 A.D. , same year that Jesus was cruxificated. So, wtf this has to do with

The price of consumer item X going up does not cause inflation. Neither is it proof of inflation. It's just one item with any number of possible causes for the price increase. And as economists say, never

The United States Federal Reserve is not going to tighten. Unless we are in the land of flying elephants and purple bunnies, the reality is the Fed is in a corner and tightening is not going to happen.

The last couple of months have felt like the inverse of the slow-motion train wreck of early 2020. I don't know if there's a good compact idiom for "there's a shining glorious world on the horizon,

Our case curve has stopped falling, and for the moment it appears flat. When it stopped declining, B.1.1.7 (British variant) was about 15% of positive tests. There's a bit of a testing lag, but by now

I don't really like using national level data for this pandemic. What truly matters are local virus conditions and resource pressure. Aggregating ends up obscuring a lot. The pandemic has had disjointed

Sometimes going against the narrative can be tough especially when it is completely wrong. Have you heard of this thing called inflation? This is some scary stuff because it is highway robbery. And now,

Less than two weeks ago, Wisconsin's supreme court (which is controlled by Republicans) declared the lock down orders unconstitutional. This meant that businesses were in the clear to reopen. However,

Another week, another couple trillion dollars. What the heck is going on here? Is the Fed trying to prop up the stock market? Are they interested in generating inflation? The answer is neither of these.

Did they ever stop? Here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush... When you gain some wisdom, you realise that sometimes you just need to let things go, the red cordial ain't

I'm not mister finance ... so you should maybe read for yourself and make up your own mind to increase the money supply, effectively lowering the cost of money easing ( investopedia ) (src + img WallstreetMojo

Back in the days of the Fed's QE, much of thinking analyst world (the non-thinking segment would merely accept everything that the Fed did without question, after all their livelihood depended on it),

When the President calls for Federal Reserve Quantitative Easing, others need to realize the Trump economy is a smoke screen. Propped up by the same endless debt that previous economic hitmen presidents

Jim Cramer was an outpoken critic of the Fed and Chairman Powell's push to "normalize". He felt this was wrong and was vocal about it. It is no surprise that Cramer praised the Fed Chairman for

The naysayers are often wrong and do nothing more than cry over spilled milk. This time, however, they could be the ones on the money. Over the past few years many stated how the markets were not reaching

For the past 12 years, grow in household wealth is attributed to an increase in the prices of assets. This could be a problem if the "bubble of everything" implodes. With each drawdown of the

The stock market, like most asset classes, benefited from a decade long easing by the central banks of the world. Albert Edwards believes that it is starting to look a lot like 2007. At that time, the

La impresión de dinero o el endeudamiento público no son necesariamente malos para la sociedad, no tienen que repercutir negativamente en el desempeño económico de un pais, sino ser impulsores del crecimiento

     My last post talked about the consolidation of wealth. This time I want to address stock buy-backs.  In the first quarter of 2018, Apple Inc bought back over $23 BILLION of it's