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You should hear some of the craziest stuff that was invented to blame Chinese.
For example, like the Chinese bought Lenovo from IBM and IBM should not have sold Lenovo to China so they can keep that giant PC firm under US control.
Jura The idiot
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If the Fed had done its job properly, which it has not, the Stock Market would have been up 5000 to 10,000 additional points, and GDP would have been well over 4% instead of 3%...with almost no inflation. Quantitative tightening was a killer, should have done the exact opposite!
If the Fed had done its job properly, which it has not, the Stock Market would have been up 5000 to 10,000 additional points, and GDP would have been well over 4% instead of 3%...with almost no inflation. Quantitative tightening was a killer, should have done the exact opposite!
Too much Quantitative Easing would not have been good either.
In 2015, the U.S. dollar .
By 2017, the U.S. dollar . Just two years later.
That means the rest of the world is dropping the dollar, very quickly. The U.S.'s days as the issuer of the world's top reserve currency are numbered. In order to delay this for a little while, the Federal Reserve stopped printing money (quantitative easing).
So pick your poison. Quantitative easing will destroy the U.S. dollar's reserve currency status; it will be bad for the U.S. Quantitative tightening is also bad for the U.S.
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Jura The idiot
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Dec 28, 2018
26,612.54
Apr 24, 3:56 PM EDT ·
earlier today read it was approaching all time high, let me see ... "The highest closing record is 26,828.39, set on October 3, 2018."
and it'sYesterday at 4:32 PM
but later ...:
LOL a roller coaster, roughly six percent down and up during last week:
Dec 20 opened at 23195,
Dec 26 at one point was as low as 21730,
closed at 23139 Dec 27
26,612.54
Apr 24, 3:56 PM EDT ·
earlier today read it was approaching all time high, let me see ... "The highest closing record is 26,828.39, set on October 3, 2018."
Quantitative easing was the ultimate sacrifice of the public good to bail out big money special interests without holding those guilty of instigating the financial crisis accountable. They should be forever shamed.
Estimate for Q1 annualized GDP growth at 3.2%. Considering the winter they had, and the partial government shutdown, quite spectacular growth, almost beyond comprehension. Especially with experts predicting closer to 2.2%, it seems most growth was in a better trade balance, and company stockpiling. With consumer spending only growing by 1.2%, this other growth must have been large?
The US economy grew much faster than expected in the first quarter of the year, helped by a jump in exports and by firms building up stocks of goods.
in the January-to-March period, well above analysts' forecasts.
The economy has accelerated since the previous quarter, when it grew at a pace of 2.2%.
However, some analysts warned growth had been boosted by one-off factors, and could slow in the months ahead.
The growth figures - which are subject to revision in the months ahead - appeared to dispel any fears of an economic slowdown.
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross welcomed the data, saying: "The Trump economy has repeatedly defied the sceptics who predicted an economic downturn and has restored America's position in the world as a consistent source of economic growth."
Trade helped to boost growth in the first quarter, as exports rose while imports fell. Companies also built up inventories of goods at the fastest rate since the second quarter of 2015.
However, consumer spending, which drives about two-thirds of economic activity in the US, grew by only 1.2% in the first quarter, down from a rate of 2.5% previously.
The growth figure was quite a surprise and it certainly defuses some of the warnings about a possible recession in the US.
There were, however, some features of the figures that suggest the headline growth rate is a little flattering. The acceleration owed something to companies building up their stocks of goods. That is a process that won't go on indefinitely, not at the same rate.
There was also a contribution from government spending and from international trade. The last of these is striking, in the context of the increase in global trade tensions due to a significant extent to the more assertive policies pursued by the Trump administration. Will that be sustained?
Consumer spending is a traditional source of US economic strength. It did grow in this period, but more slowly than before. Spending on goods actually declined, although that was more than offset by services.
All that said, some observers point out that the first estimate for this quarter tends to be revised upwards. So we could yet end up with an even stronger figure.
Fed faces 'tricky summer'
Earlier this month, , claiming that the Fed had "really slowed us down" in terms of economic growth.
In March, - which currently stand between 2.25% and 2.5% - for the rest of 2019.
Ian Shepherson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the "strong" GDP report meant the Fed could have a "tricky summer".
"The problem for the Fed now... is that if growth continues at anything like this pace, the labour market will tighten much further this year, and the question of rate hikes will be back on the agenda".
However, Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics, warned that there were "plenty of causes for concern" behind the headline growth figure.
As well as the boost from trade and inventories, he noted growth was also lifted by government spending on highways and roads.
"So taking out the over-sized boosts from net trade, inventories and highways investment, which will all be reversed in the coming quarters, growth was only around 1.0%," Mr Ashworth says.
"Under those circumstances, we continue to expect that overall growth will slow this year, forcing the Fed to begin cutting interest rates before year-end."
The US economy grew much faster than expected in the first quarter of the year, helped by a jump in exports and by firms building up stocks of goods.
in the January-to-March period, well above analysts' forecasts.
The economy has accelerated since the previous quarter, when it grew at a pace of 2.2%.
However, some analysts warned growth had been boosted by one-off factors, and could slow in the months ahead.
The growth figures - which are subject to revision in the months ahead - appeared to dispel any fears of an economic slowdown.
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross welcomed the data, saying: "The Trump economy has repeatedly defied the sceptics who predicted an economic downturn and has restored America's position in the world as a consistent source of economic growth."
Trade helped to boost growth in the first quarter, as exports rose while imports fell. Companies also built up inventories of goods at the fastest rate since the second quarter of 2015.
However, consumer spending, which drives about two-thirds of economic activity in the US, grew by only 1.2% in the first quarter, down from a rate of 2.5% previously.
The growth figure was quite a surprise and it certainly defuses some of the warnings about a possible recession in the US.
There were, however, some features of the figures that suggest the headline growth rate is a little flattering. The acceleration owed something to companies building up their stocks of goods. That is a process that won't go on indefinitely, not at the same rate.
There was also a contribution from government spending and from international trade. The last of these is striking, in the context of the increase in global trade tensions due to a significant extent to the more assertive policies pursued by the Trump administration. Will that be sustained?
Consumer spending is a traditional source of US economic strength. It did grow in this period, but more slowly than before. Spending on goods actually declined, although that was more than offset by services.
All that said, some observers point out that the first estimate for this quarter tends to be revised upwards. So we could yet end up with an even stronger figure.
Fed faces 'tricky summer'
Earlier this month, , claiming that the Fed had "really slowed us down" in terms of economic growth.
In March, - which currently stand between 2.25% and 2.5% - for the rest of 2019.
Ian Shepherson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said the "strong" GDP report meant the Fed could have a "tricky summer".
"The problem for the Fed now... is that if growth continues at anything like this pace, the labour market will tighten much further this year, and the question of rate hikes will be back on the agenda".
However, Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics, warned that there were "plenty of causes for concern" behind the headline growth figure.
As well as the boost from trade and inventories, he noted growth was also lifted by government spending on highways and roads.
"So taking out the over-sized boosts from net trade, inventories and highways investment, which will all be reversed in the coming quarters, growth was only around 1.0%," Mr Ashworth says.
"Under those circumstances, we continue to expect that overall growth will slow this year, forcing the Fed to begin cutting interest rates before year-end."
Jura The idiot
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Jura The idiot
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Jan 31, 2019
Fed keeps interest rates steady, but signals potential rate cuts in 2019 as pressure mounts
now
Fed keeps interest rates steady, but signals potential rate cuts in 2019 as pressure mounts