An increasing number of Americans cannot afford the higher car prices and are falling behind on record-high car payments, which adds more misery to tighter household budgets as the U.S. economy heads for a hard-landing recession after a pandemic, supply chain crisis,...
The unsustainable U.S. national debt and deficit burden (view the real-time National Debt Clock) is a theme within my series on an impending bond storm ouroboros, the housing bubble’s entry into a capitulation phase, an imminent hard-landing recession vs. a Goldilocks...
Gone are the good old days of a prepackaged pound of coffee since the 9-12 oz. shrinkflation versions were introduced many moons ago amid the inflation-ravaged pickings at your favorite grocery store. Out of desperation, I found myself perusing the Internet for a...
It has been a year since I penned the last chapter in a series on the housing market, and it’s time to look at what transpired since last summer and fall. The affordability factor has worsened, there are rising interest rates for mortgage debt, prices remain elevated...
Lurking behind a surge in United States government bond yields since the spring of this year are the two largest players in the market that have stopped buying U.S. Treasury debt. The Federal Reserve launched a quantitative tightening (QT) monetary policy program in...