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Fed Emergency Bank Bailout Facility Usage Hits New Record High; Money Market Funds See Small Outflow

Fed Emergency Bank Bailout Facility Usage Hits New Record High; Money Market Funds See Small Outflow

For the first time since the week of April 19th (related to tax payments), money market funds saw net outflows last week ($4.66 billion)…

Source: Bloomberg

Ignoring the usual tax-related outflow…

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US Homeowner Equity Drops For First Time Since 2012

US Homeowner Equity Drops For First Time Since 2012

The housing bull market has peaked for now. Recent home price declines are leading to decreased tappable equity for homeowners.

A new CoreLogic Homeowner Equity Insights report shows homeowners with mortgages (roughly 63% of all properties) saw their equity decrease by a total of $108.4 billion in the first…

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JPMorgan and Citigroup Are Using the Same Accounting Maneuver as Silicon Valley Bank on Hundreds of Billions of Underwater Debt Securities

JPMorgan and Citigroup Are Using the Same Accounting Maneuver as Silicon Valley Bank on Hundreds of Billions of Underwater Debt Securities

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 6, 2023 ~ As we reported yesterday, Silicon Valley Bank was not even on the “Problem Bank List” maintained by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) when…

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Doug Casey On Why The US Is Headed Into Its ‘Fourth Turning’

Doug Casey On Why The US Is Headed Into Its ‘Fourth Turning’

Authored by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com,

International Man: The economic, political, social, and cultural situation seems to have become increasingly volatile in the United States and more broadly in the West. Is this a unique situation or part of a recurring historical cycle?

Authors William…

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This Housing Bubble Is Different: It’s Much More Precarious

This Housing Bubble Is Different: It’s Much More Precarious

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

And what happens next? Bubble symmetry: valuations fall at the same rate as they rose, declining back to the starting point over a roughly equivalent time duration.

All speculative bubbles share certain traits: the abandonment of caution, the euphoria of seemingly endless…

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SVB Latest Developments Live Blog: FDIC Auction Of Failed SVB Assets Underway

SVB Latest Developments Live Blog: FDIC Auction Of Failed SVB Assets Underway

As the countdown to the reopening of futures trading gets louder by the second amid episodic observations of bank runs around the US, news flow is starting to accelerate fast so this will be a placeholder post with updates until we get major…

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Black Knight’s January 2023 Mortgage Monitor

Collateral Analytics data from Black Knight showed January marking the fourth consecutive month of declines in for-sale inventory on a seasonally adjusted basis after seeing strong improvement in shortages early last year Months of supply has stagnated at approximately 3.1 …

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The Federal Government’s Interest Payments Go Parabolic

As the Federal Reserve embarks upon the path of raising interest rates, a new challenge will play out for the Federal Government; interest payments. While the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates at one of the fastest paces ever, historically the rate is still low, as interest payments are at screaming highs. RED LINE: Federal…

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