by pentoport | Apr 28, 2023 | Commentary
April 26, 2023 First Quarter GDP increased at only a 1.1% seasonally adjusted annual rate. That was down from 2.6% in Q4 of last year, which was down from 3.2% during Q3. Despite the clear slowdown in economic growth, there still exists a battle between Wall...
by pentoport | Apr 17, 2023 | Commentary
April 17, 2023 The debt-disabled U.S. economy cannot withstand the surge in borrowing costs, and the reduction in money supply growth necessary to combat the record-high inflation suffered over the past few years. Our beloved U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said...
by pentoport | Mar 27, 2023 | Commentary
March 27th 2023 Christian Laggard raised interest rates by 50 bps last week, and Mr. Powell decided to raise the Fed Funds Rate by 25bps today and to keep the Quantitative Tightening Program at its current pace. It is hysterically funny that the Fed and ECB both...
by pentoport | Feb 24, 2023 | Commentary
February 24th, 2023 The Deep State of Wall Street has changed the narrative from an economy that will probably undergo just a soft landing, to one that will now experience no landing at all. This specious propaganda is derived from the situation where we find CPI...
by pentoport | Feb 9, 2023 | Commentary
February 9, 2023 Inflation is supposedly on its way to falling gently back to 2% like a fluffy snowflake while the US economy roars ahead. Or at least that is what the deep state of Wall Street needs you to think. However, the US economy is in the eye of the hurricane...
by pentoport | Jan 17, 2023 | Commentary
January 17th 2023 Those investors who are hanging on to the hopes of an imminent Powell Pivot back to ZIRP and QE received some disappointing news from the latest Non-farm Payroll Report. During the month of December, 223k net new jobs were created, and the...
by pentoport | Jan 3, 2023 | Commentary
January 3, 2023 Fed Chair Jerome Powell remains unimpressed with the reduction of the rate of inflation; down to 7.1% in November, from 9.1% June. The Summary of Economic Projections shows a desire of the Fed to increase their forecast for the Fed Funds Rate to 5% in...
by pentoport | Dec 16, 2022 | Commentary
December 16, 2022 The cornerstones in my Inflation/Deflation and Economic Cycle Model are changes made to fiscal and monetary policies. Those are the two most determinant factors in any fiat-currency and debt-based monetary system. Monetary policies have been...
by pentoport | Nov 3, 2022 | Commentary
November 3, 2022 This latest bear-market bounce was predicated on good seasonality, the hopes for a typical mid-term election boost, and the rumors of a Fed pivot. Wall Street always finds a narrative for rallies in a bear market. But the negative economic and...
