The Street is surprised, but Trends Journal subscribers aren’t. Ready for this “shocking” Bloomberg headline? “Canada inflation quickens to 4 percent, driven by higher gas prices.”
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ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
The facts are there for all to see. Across the globe, the rich are getting richer as the plantation workers of Slavelandia get poorer. And to make a bad situation worse, the era of Dragflation, where economies go down and inflation rises, has just begun.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
As we have been forecasting, with interest rates rising, not only would depositors take their money out of banks and invest it money market funds and high-yielding Treasuries, but more importantly, the socioeconomic and geopolitical damage inflicted upon humanity by politicians who launched the COVID War, would also devastate much of the banking system.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
The global economic slowdown has begun. The facts are in the figures. Leading the downtrend is China, the world’s #2 economy, whose leaders caused the socioeconomic decay when they launched the COVID War during their Lunar New Year in January 2020, “The Year of the Rat.” After imposing draconian zero-COVID policies for some three years, they have destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions across the nation.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
At this point in the stock market game, it’s all about interest rates.
In the U.S., the bet on The Street is that following the Fed’s meeting on Wednesday, there is a 98-percent probability that the central bank will raise interest rates 25-basis points, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.
ECONOMIC UPDATE — MARKET OVERVIEW
“The Trend is Your Friend.” As we had forecast back in November 2022, and as Gerald Celente and The Trends Journal has been repeating since, the S&P 500 would rise at least 16 percent in the following 12 months. It has now hit that mark.
U.S. BOND MARKET BETS ON RECESSION
Investors in treasury bonds are raising their bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve’s steady stream of interest rate increases will tip the economy into recession this year, even though the stock prices stay high and a growing number of economists doubt the economy will shrink, the Financial Times reported.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
In identifying, analyzing and forecasting trends, it is essential to understand that all things are connected. As Chief Seattle said in 1855, “All things are connected, like the blood which unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”
GLOBAL DEBT CRISIS. (YOU ARE IN ONE.)
There has been no other time in the history of the world where global debt has risen faster than it is rising today. Moreover, the big secret is this: no matter how much debt puppet governments pump into the system, via the REAL world government system which is world central banks, the amount of debt pulled into the system is never enough.
ECONOMIC UPDATE – MARKET OVERVIEW
In the U.S., its service industry, which accounts for nearly 70 percent of Gross Domestic Product, fell from 51.9 in April to 50.3 in May, according to data released yesterday by the Institute for Supply Management’s non-manufacturing PMI. Barely in positive territory, a reading above 50 indicates growth.