By Robert Romano Consumer inflation reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics ticked up to 9.1 percent the past 12 months, the highest since 1981, in what has to be a crushing blow to any chances of avoiding a recession in the U.S. this year. Food is up 10.4 percent unadjusted the past twelve months. Energy […]

By Robert Romano The spread between 10-year and 2-year treasuries, a reliable recession indicator that has predicted almost every recession in modern economic history, inverted for the third time this year on July 5. This followed inversions overnight on June 13 and on March 31 , following the worsening supply crisis, energy and food […]

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by Rick Manning Remember the mandate to fire anyone who wouldn’t be coerced into getting vaccinated craze that consumed much of the first year of the Biden presidency? Joe Biden is really hoping that you won’t. Airline disruptions and cancellations are part of the ongoing “supply chain” […]

  By Rick Manning Americans received a nasty surprise when they learned today that much of the oil released from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been exported rather than refined domestically in the U.S. to lower the cost of gasoline at the pump. President Joe Biden’s […]

By Rick Manning Earlier this week I was flying from San Francisco to Orange County, California.  Near the end of the short flight, I ​looked out the window and was able to count a minimum of twenty-five cargo ships anchored off of the Port of Long Beach.  […]

By Robert Romano 67 percent of Americans disapprove of President Joe Biden’s handling of the U.S. economy and 71 percent disapprove of his handling of inflation as gasoline prices continue hitting records at $5 a gallon, a recent Fox News poll taken mid-June found , even as Biden recently suggested a recession is not “inevitable” . A whopping 75 percent of independents […]

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By Robert Romano Interest rates on the $30 trillion national debt are rising much faster than expected this year, according to the latest data from the U.S. Treasury. 10-year treasuries are up to about 3.2 percent in 2022 so far as bond markets continue responding to the recent bout […]

By Robert Romano The Federal Reserve on June 15 once again hiked the Federal Funds Rate — the rate at which  the central bank lends to financial institutions — up another 0.75 percent to 1.5 percent to 1.75 percent, following 0.25 percent and 0.5 percent rate hikes at its March and May meetings. That came after the […]