As we had long forecast, the higher central banks raise interest rates, the lower the Merger and Acquisition trend… which hit record highs at the height of the COVID War in 2021 when interest rates sank and governments pumped in countless trillions to artificially prop up sinking economies.
Category: 11 July 2023
WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
This is week 46 of job cuts. And get ready for a bad situation to get much worse. The higher the U.S. and EU raise interest rates the deeper economies will decline and the higher the unemployment numbers will rise.
PIMCO BRACES FOR “HARDER LANDING”
Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), the largest U.S. active bond fund manager, believes markets are far too optimistic about the U.S. Federal Reserve’s and European Central Bank’s ability to bring inflation to heel without causing a recession.
CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCIES JUMP 68 PERCENT THIS YEAR
The number of business and personal Chapter 11 bankruptcies shot up to 2,973 during this year’s first five months, a 68-percent increase from the 1,766 in the same period in 2022, data service Epiq Bankruptcy reported on 3 July.
WAGES ROSE, UNEMPLOYMENT FELL AGAIN IN JUNE
In June, wages were 4.4 percent higher than a year earlier and unemployment edged down to 3.6 percent from 3.7 percent in May.
THE BET: TWO MORE FED RATE HIKES THIS YEAR
All 11 voting members of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee agreed to defer an interest rate increase in June’s meeting, the session's newly-released minutes show.
NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHES HIT PIECE ON RFK JR.
It was The New York Times’s turn last week to publish a hit piece against Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Democratic challenger to President Joe Biden, and did its best to portray the environmental lawyer as a tin foil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist.
JAPAN GETS FINAL APPROVAL TO RELEASE RADIOACTIVE WASTE FROM FUKUSHIMA INTO PACIFIC AS OUTRAGE GROWS
The United Nations' nuclear watchdog last week gave the final approval for the release of 1.25 million tons of the treated wastewater from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific.
“BIGS” GET BIGGER AS MILLENNIALS LIVE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK
A newly released study shined a new light on the financial struggles of millions of young Americans and found that 73.2 percent of Millennials—those between 25 and 40 years old—are living paycheck to paycheck.
DID YEVGENY PRIGOZHIN REALLY LEAD AN ARMED REBELLION IN RUSSIA?
“A riddle wrapped up in an enigma” is a shortened form of a quotation made in October 1939, just one month after the Second World War had begun, by Sir Winston Churchill in a radio broadcast to the British people. At the time, Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty. The full comment was “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…”