Why deflation is winning over inflation for now.
Deflation -- not inflation -- will win the day going forward because the money is pooling up within the banks as massive excess reserves and the banks aren't lending enough of it out. Money supply is up but money velocity is lower than it has been in over a century. The Fed can shove as much new money into the banking system as it wants, but there's no guarantee that money will make it out into the economy. Some of that money does find its way into asset prices, causing them to inflate, corporate executives have a mal-incentive to invest their capital into financial assets vs productivity. The end result is that overall economic productivity is depressed. When the Fed is able to monetize its liabilities as legal tender, which some are pushing for, then that would change the game and runaway inflation would ensue. Our current debt, demographic and technological trends are very deflationary and Inflation overcoming that is a difficult task until the rules are changed. So Beyond the extreme case of running out of assets to buy inflation is controlled. But If banks face capital requirements (due to regulation or other market-induced reasons), then the total value of reserves that banks can hold is linked to the total amount of bank capital available in the economy. Eventually, as bank capital becomes scarce, the cost of holding additional reserves becomes higher than the interest paid on reserves and banks again become sensitive to the quantity of reserves outstanding. The ability to pay interest on reserves has been crucial to allowing the Fed to raise its target rate while there are still significant excess reserves in the banking system. So in effect the Fed will never be able to raise interest rates until minimum wage is raised to 15.00-20.00/hr then impact of inflation wouldnt be felt unless the system has suppressed an exorbitant amount.
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Cookie693 : man you just have no idea what you're talking about anymore.
Mcsnacks H Tupack OP Cookie693 : Wall Street wants small investors on the wrong side of the market. They accomplish this by giving out fake news. They have to sell to somebody. Don’t fall for it.
Cookie693 : nothing said above constitutes as financial advice, but for research purposes.
if you can find me good data I'm dying to know from where? I'm about to go walk to down CBOE and ask for tape membership. pay 500 a year for false ortex data yeah no thanks. I feel bad for the BT users... SCAM for 25k a month. and yes have access to terminals but they're as good as fintel.
Cookie693 : 25k year**
Mcsnacks H Tupack OP Cookie693 : It looks like the market is reverting back to March. The treasury yields have, which would mean the market will continue to dip this week and then recover next week or whenever the Fed announces something to change it.
zingerbells : Good