Yellen on the Labor Market and Inflation Buy Physical Silver Online Podcast Summary 0:00-4:37 – Introduction Yellen Overstates the Heath of the Labor Market and Understates Inflation 4:37-8:05 – discussion of the Fed’s decision to not use the targeted 6.5% unemployment rate as a basis for making monetary decisions. The Fed will use new tools … Read More →
Artificially Low Interest Rates Update November 29, 2016: Click here to see the Smaulgld commentary video to this report below. Artificially low interest rates are bad for the economy. “Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates” – Ludvig Von Mises, A Critique of Interventionism Over the past decade or so the … Read More →
Much has been said about the potential impact on the real estate and stock markets if the Federal Reserve were to taper its quantitative easing program or to eliminate it altogether. The debate centers around whether and by how much rates would rise and what impact that would have on the real estate and stock … Read More →
Can the Housing Recovery Continue? Real Estate News Who Will Buy the Houses to Sustain the Real Estate Market? The current real estate recovery is characterized by higher home prices driven by low inventory and high demand relative to the existing inventory. The demand is driven by Fed induced low interest rates that has invited … Read More →
Where is the Economic Recovery? Summary Ryan and Louis discuss the direction of mortgage interest rates. Ryan notes that Ben Bernanke admitted that the employment situation is not good. Louis notes that when the non farm employment data came out last week and the top line number was better than expected that the market would … Read More →
The Part Time Recovery Are we becoming a nation of part timers? Introduction: 0:00-1:40 Discussion of the upcoming job report number & unemployment rate releases & predictions on the impact of a potentially improving job market 1:40-7:05 Discussion of mortgages & the float down option mortgage 7:05-10:06 Louis predicts that if the jobs number comes … Read More →
Real Estate Supply and Demand Real Estate News “Housing prices have risen dramatically not because of simple supply and demand, but because the Fed literally created demand by making the cost of borrowing money artificially cheap” Ron Paul 2007 The real estate market as measured by price increase (not volume of sales) is recovering. This … Read More →
Bill Gross Against QE For the past few days the chorus has been getting louder: Monetary easing does not work and creates structural imbalances in the economy leading to systemic risks and asset bubbles. Today Bill Gross weighed in with this “Perhaps zero-bound interest rates and quantitative easing programs are becoming as much of the … Read More →
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