Eurodollar University Jeff Snider

More data released today which shows the US economy has taken a turn for the worse. Consumers are running out of options and are turning in huge proportions to alternate means to stay afloat. One of those alternatives, however, is being closed off as the American banks are now actively cutting back risk while going on a buying binge for safety. 
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nerdwallet  2024 State of Consumer Credit Reporthttps://www.nerdwallet.com/article/credit-cards/2024-consumer-credit-report
CNBC 25% of consumers recently used a buy now, pay later loan, report finds. What to know as they become popularhttps://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/28/buy-now-pay-later-loans-are-second-only-to-credit-cards-in-popularity.html
FRBNY HOUSEHOLD DEBT AND CREDIT REPORT (Q1 2024)https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc
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What's misinformation about the economy? It's a well-known fact policymakers and Economists outright lie about any situation. But why? They say it's for your own good. The lies are beginning to pile up so much that officials now have to lie about their lies, including the very theory behind all of this especially when some of the theoreticians who came up with it no longer want to be the very purveyors of misinformation. 
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George DeMartino Should Economists Deceive? Prosocial Lying, Paternalism, and the ‘Ben Bernanke Problem’https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1256&context=peri_workingpapers
DeLong & Summers How Does Macroeconomic Policy Affect Output?https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/1988/06/1988b_bpea_delong_summers_mankiw_romer.pdf
Brad DeLong Greater Depressionhttps://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/j--bradford-delong-argues-that-it-is-time-to-call-what-is-happening-in-europe-and-the-us-by-its-true-name
Bank of England  Ben Bernanke to lead review into forecasting at Bank of Englandhttps://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2023/july/ben-bernanke-to-lead-review-into-forecasting-at-bank-of-england
Bank of England Forecasting for monetary policy making and communication at the Bank of England: a reviewhttps://www.bankofengland.co.uk/independent-evaluation-office/forecasting-for-monetary-policy-making-and-communication-at-the-bank-of-england-a-review/forecasting-for-monetary-policy-making-and-communication-at-the-bank-of-england-a-review
Mervyn King Per Jacobsson Lecture: The World Turned Upside Down: Economic Policy in Turbulent Timeshttps://meetings.imf.org/en/2019/Annual/Schedule/2019/10/19/imf-seminar-per-jacobsson
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It doesn't help that policymakers and Economists quite openly admit they will and even should lie to you about the state of the economy. But to go so far as to call legitimate and widely-shared criticism misinformation is taking this too far. The reason it is going this way is just how difficult the situation has become, which brings us back to the first point: who's actually telling the truth?
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Should Economists Deceive? Prosocial Lying, Paternalism, and the ‘Ben Bernanke Problem’https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1256&context=peri_workingpapers
FoxNews Democrat claiming 'inflation rates are down' interrupted by higher than expected inflation reporthttps://www.foxnews.com/media/democrat-claiming-inflation-rates-down-interrupted-higher-expected-inflation-report
The Undecideds What Are Undecided Voters Really Thinking?https://markhalperin.substack.com/p/what-are-undecided-voters-really
Bloomberg Fed’s Bostic Says Policy Is Taking Longer to Slow Growthhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-23/fed-s-bostic-says-policy-is-taking-longer-to-slow-growth
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After months of silence, a couple of critical developments from the beleaguered commercial real estate sector show up all at once. For the first time since the Global not-Financial Crisis, a senior tranche of a CLO took losses - a lot of losses - while redemptions threaten to force liquidations at one of the spaces more important CRE funds. Not good first signs for the bubble unwind.
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Bloomberg A Really Bad Sign for Commercial Real Estatehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-23/bloomberg-evening-briefing-a-really-bad-sign-for-commercial-real-estate
Bloomberg Starwood’s $10 Billion REIT Turns to Survival Mode as Real Estate Pain Lingershttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-23/starwood-reit-sets-drastic-redemption-limits-on-liquidity-crunch
Bloomberg Lenders Race to Buy Back Delinquent Multifamily Mortgage Loanshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-01/jpmorgan-says-commercial-real-estate-clo-loan-buyouts-are-set-to-reach-a-record
Fitch Global Contagion Risk Growing from Rising CRE Losses, Led by Officehttps://www.fitchratings.com/research/non-bank-financial-institutions/global-contagion-risk-growing-from-rising-cre-losses-led-by-office-02-04-2024
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On top of dumping Treasuries (which I covered in detail in a previous video https://youtu.be/j00_S1iug9c), China's also dumping its excess production on the rest of the world. The tactic has become so pervasive governments worldwide are responding with more than idle threats. But what are they really worried about given this means cheaper stuff and lower prices? 
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Remarks by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen at Press Conference Ahead of the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meetingshttps://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2363
Reuters Yellen wants G7 'wall of opposition' to China's excess industrial capacityhttps://www.reuters.com/markets/yellen-says-g7-discuss-responses-chinas-excess-industrial-capacity-2024-05-23/
Treasury Secretary Yellen on PBShttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/treasury-secretary-yellen-on-why-biden-is-targeting-chinese-manufacturing-with-new-tariffs
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The retail giant's latest earnings report confirmed...well, pretty much everything. Inflation risks, consumer capacities, the direction of interest rates and more. Target's results help setting the debate on prices while also dovetailing right in with a whole bunch of the latest figures on especially gasoline and even rents. 
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Target Corp First Quarter Earningshttps://corporate.target.com/press/release/2024/05/target-corporation-reports-first-quarter-earnings
Target Corp Press Release Lowering Priceshttps://corporate.target.com/press/release/2024/05/target-will-help-consumers-save-big-by-lowering-prices-on-5,000-frequently-shopped-items
CNBC Target shares tumble 10% as consumers buy fewer groceries and home goodshttps://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/22/target-tgt-q1-2024-earnings.html
BLS New Tenant Rent Indexhttps://www.bls.gov/pir/new-tenant-rent.htm
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