debt ceiling

Weekly Market Pulse: A Hill of Beans

By |2023-05-30T08:50:30-04:00May 29th, 2023|Alhambra Research, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Economy, Markets, Real Estate, Stocks|

Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world. - Ronald Reagan   It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived. - George S. Patton   In the End, we will remember not the words of our [...]

Weekly Market Pulse: Politicians Acting Badly

By |2023-05-22T08:42:25-04:00May 22nd, 2023|Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Economy, Markets, Real Estate, Stocks|

Should investors be worried about the impending breach of the US debt ceiling? A default would be catastrophic according to numerous news articles I've read recently. Well, to be honest, I didn't read past the first few paragraphs of most of those articles because if you've read one of them, you've read them all. Obviously, a default would be bad [...]

*Every* Time, Debt Ceiling Impacts Collateral Producing Inevitable Deflationary Currency

By |2022-04-07T20:15:34-04:00April 7th, 2022|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Last September 28, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wrote to Nancy Pelosi of the House of Representatives to inform its Speaker that the government would run out of cash, and accounting tricks, by October 18. Unless Congress, starting in the House, did something about the so-called debt ceiling, Treasury would be forced to take even more restrictive, potentially destructive means to [...]

What’s The Debt Ceiling Got To Do With It (deflation)?

By |2021-12-06T19:48:50-05:00December 6th, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

I’m not saying it is the whole story, but it’s not just random coincidence, either. It can’t be. At each inflection point when the global eurodollar system rolls over from reflation to the next major funding squeeze, you will find the debt ceiling nonsense rolled on into that process. Every time. On September 8, 2017, the debt ceiling was temporarily [...]

Bills Flipping The Debt Ceiling

By |2021-09-14T19:46:54-04:00September 14th, 2021|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

The dollar stopped falling on January 6, beginning a reversal which has lasted more than eight months. This forewarning was joined two days later when TIPS breakevens crossed, inverting the 5-year when compared to the 10-year. About a week after that, T-bills.In other words, as I had written up last week, there actually were quite a few contrary indications in [...]

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