WSJ: "It's Fed day. And it's a big one. The central bank faces one of its hardest calls in years: Keep raising rates to fight high inflation or hold steady to help quell the worst banking crisis since 2008."
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The world anxiously awaits the man, the myth, the legend, Jerome Powell, to decide the fate of the global economy.
The Federal Reserve will save the day. Right?
But if they don't, cut them some slack. This is one of "its hardest calls in years."
Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
The amount of cognitive dissonance in financial markets is unparalleled.
Everyone awaits what a dozen people have planned for the global 'free market' economy.
Not only that...
Everyone seems to have forgotten that the Federal Reserve created both problems - they are the reason they have this "hard call."
The Fed & US Gov teamed up to print over $6 TRILLION in 2020/21.
40% of the US money supply. That's why there is a cost of living crisis!
Then they tell us it's not a problem.
Don't worry about it - being unable to afford rent and groceries is only transitory.
But then, after realizing how utterly wrong they were, they hiked rates at the fastest pace in history, crashing the banking system.
So yes, the heroic Federal Reserve will save the day.
Their only hope is to (temporarily) fix one of the problems that they have created.
A threat to food security around the world. š§µš
The Davos Class has convinced a many ppl that we are heading toward a climate crisis, and if we do not reach "net zero" by 2050, we are in grave danger.
If that were the case, you would think they'd stop flying private, but instead, they want you to stop eating meat.
The climate narrative is an effective one.
Most people want to do the right thing and be good stewards of the planet. Like COVID, the climate crisis is a "bigger than us" narrative. We need to join together to defeat this existential threat.
"Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe. Your deposits will be there when you need them."
A thread on the fragility of the banking system, the coming collapse, and #bitcoin.
2/ Silicon Valley Bank's implosion is the latest example of the fraudulent fiat financial system.
There's plenty of detailed coverage, so I'll keep this part short - SVB took deposits and bought mortgage backed securities to generate a yield on deposits.
3/ The Fed + Gov actions of 2020/21 created massive inflation in the US & abroad.
In 2022, after the Fed told us for months that inflation was transitory, they realized they were wrong and started to hike rates at one of the fastest paces in history.
"Central banks globally added another net 77 tons to their gold reserves in January."
It was a 192% month-on-month increase from December and above the 20-60 ton range of reported purchases weāve seen over the last 10 consecutive months."
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"Total central bank gold buying in 2022 came in at 1,136 tons. It was the highest level of net purchases on record dating back to 1950, including since the suspension of dollar convertibility into gold in 1971."
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A main driver of central bank appetite for gold in 2022 was the West's sanction of Russia's FX reserves.
Countries are looking to de-risk themselves by storing value outside of $-denominated assets.
Neutral reserve assets such as gold reduce their counterparty risk.
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