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The Fed is About to Repeat a Dangerous Mistake.

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hey everyone me Kevin here in this video

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we're going to discuss the Federal

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Reserves a great reset we are going to

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discuss a 1970s inflation versus today

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how is it similar and how is it

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different are we bound to repeat the

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same triple wave of inflation that will

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end up destroying our economy and

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potentially even the US

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dollar what about the housing crisis

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today how does it compare to the last

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time we ended our three waves of

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inflation in

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1981 and how is that different from

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2008 we'll also touch on the banking

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crisis and the certainty of the

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recession as predicted by the 10-year

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yield curve as well as the real danger

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coming up happy Cyber Monday let's get

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started first with data released today

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it is clear Americans are starting to

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suffer again average credit card

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utilization a among 30-day plus

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delinquent categories based on household

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incomes now above levels that we saw

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before the pandemic we could see in the

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25 to $50,000 income threshold we are

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above previous levels in other words

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those who are falling behind are falling

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behind even worse than they were falling

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behind before the pandemic despite all

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of the money printing that has occurred

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for the 50 to 75 middle class tier same

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thing for the under 25,000 tier also

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same thing virtually new highs for the

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75 to $100,000 tier and the six figure

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club we also have new highs in other

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words more debt utilization

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on delinquent accounts and that's by

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every single income threshold here we

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could see net charge offs and those

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30-day delinquencies also higher than

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their priv previous Peaks Total Money

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Market funds sometimes seen as a signal

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of fear by investors after all if

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investors thought that everything was

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going to be just fine the benefit of a

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5% yield in a money market would be

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substantially outweighed by the gains

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you could receive investing in bonds or

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stocks or real estate so at a 5% yield

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this skyrocketing of money market

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funding is a sign of sideline ISM in

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other words people are fearful and

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they're not certain that they're going

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to get a better deal in stocks real

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estate or bonds even though some of them

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are at quite depressed levels and so

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they're sitting on the sidelines a lot

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of that could have to do with inflation

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expectations after all look at what's

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happened with prices here we can see

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that rents across the United States are

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up

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28% since 2020 so basically since before

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the pandemic rents have skyrocketed

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since then mortgage rates now sitting at

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8% substantially higher than the below

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3% we had before the pandemic yet for

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some reason home values while they

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dipped going into the end of 22 have

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broadly started to recover again very

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strange all the while chicken dishes are

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up 32% burgers are up 23% pizza's up

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177% pasta and noodles up

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14% look at this savings across all

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incomes obviously uneven the top 10 or

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the top 1% rather had the largest gains

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of 32% savings increases during the

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pandemic in other words the pandemic

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itely made the rich richer and these

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pandemic savings are certainly starting

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to WAN away but that's not changing the

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fact that we're seeing the defaults

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across all income levels that we talked

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about at the beginning of the video

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which is strange because if we really

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had that much more money we should have

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less stress not more we're actually

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seeing more stress and so that's now

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leading folks to wonder about this chart

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this chart right here is a graph of

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consumer price

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and in early 1970 1969 1970 we saw

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inflation Skyrocket only for it to

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continue skyrocketing in 1974 and five

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only for it to continue skyrocketing

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even higher into 1980 leading a lot of

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folks to say this right here this postco

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Spike of inflation is just the first

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wave and we're about to experience three

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total waves and with three waves of

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inflation people expect housing will

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crash after all here is a reventure

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Consulting chart showing mortgage

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applications to buy a house the lowest

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level since

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1994 and the income needed to actually

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afford to buy a home today sitting at

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$111,000 you need to be a six-figure

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earner just to be able to buy a median

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income house an average house and so in

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this video we have to start reconciling

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what does all of this mean are we

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screwed what's going to happen and what

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are the biggest risk factors that could

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really destroy the economy making us say

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you know what maybe we don't want to buy

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bonds yet because maybe yields will go

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even higher maybe we don't want to buy

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stocks yet because if yields go higher

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then stocks will go down and maybe we

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don't want to buy real estate yet

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because well real estate crashed in 2008

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right so couldn't that happen again well

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we have some historical context because

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we don't want to play the this time is

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different card in fact what we want to

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do is learn from the mistakes of history

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and make sure we don't repeat the same

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returning to the early 70s style of

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inflation that will lead us to complete

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disaster and getting absolutely reset by

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the Federal Reserve just like

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chairperson vulker had to do in 1980 and

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1982 leading to a massive spike in

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unemployment which we'll talk about

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later well folks

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here is some very important background

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that we need to know the first Spike of

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inflation that we saw in America

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occurred in late

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1969 take a look at this chart I really

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want you to pay attention to this left

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side right here you could really start

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seeing in about 69 68 69 that's when

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inflation really started to take off so

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I want you to observe

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6970 lot of inflation okay then we've

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got over here all of a sudden inflation

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comes down but it shoots up again why is

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that why did it go down and why did it

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shoot up again and what lessons can we

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learn from there to avoid making those

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same mistakes well let's understand what

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happened around that time on August 15th

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1970 to combat some of that higher

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inflation we started seeing at the end

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of the

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1960s thanks in part due to the Vietnam

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War President Nixon decided to pass and

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implement the economic stabilization act

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for the next year

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1971 that was also the same year the

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United States left the gold standard and

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in that 1971 stabilization Act Nixon

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sought the power to issue an executive

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order on November 13th 1971 and what he

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said is that's it nobody is allowed to

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raise prices anymore on wages rents

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salaries or any prices nothing was

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allowed to go up phase one was referred

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to as the Nixon shock where basically we

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froze all prices in place for 90 days

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those were really stringent price

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ceilings that prevented inflation from

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continuing to go up by law so by law we

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prevented pricing from going up which

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that's really interesting because if we

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go back to the CPI chart here it makes

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sense then if in

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1971 sort of this area over here we

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started implementing price limitations

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or Price freezes that we would see

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inflation come down this chart isn't

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exactly perfect so we could have seen

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the implementation somewhere around here

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as well so what happens after we have

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the implementation of price controls

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well you might remember from high school

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that anytime you say hey we want to

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implement price controls and in this

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case we want to implement a price

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ceiling then what we actually do is we

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say we're going to limit

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prices right here but unfortunately the

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quantity that ends up being supplied at

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those lower prices is less so we end up

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with a shortage at these lower prices

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the quantity that we're demanding is

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here but the quantity that's supplied is

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here so right here we end up facing

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shortages and that's exactly what

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happened in the early 1970s we Face

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substantial shortages for goods and

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services that individuals wanted which

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actually really just fueled the pressure

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cooker and ended up making price

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inflation worse as soon as the price

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controls started to be removed can't

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have price controls forever certainly

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not at least in a capitalistic economy

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and look at what some of the next phases

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were in Nick plan and then let's look

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back at the inflation chart after the

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Nixon shock Nixon pulled back all of the

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freezes and instead went for some more

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structured price controls in other words

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will allow certain items to go up a

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certain percentage because there were

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too many shortages for regular goods and

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services certainly had an oil price

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shock as well but that came in 1974

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which just made the pain of just not

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having enough even worse was actually

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eerily similar to what we saw during

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covid where at first we didn't have

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enough toilet paper and then we didn't

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have enough chips and I'm not talking

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duritos either I'm talking chips to go

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into washing machines and cars and

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computers massive chip shortages much

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like what we saw in the early 70s except

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the difference being today we didn't

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Implement price controls so prices

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naturally Rose as there were massive

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shortages back then Nixon said no way we

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won't allow those sort of price

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increases well unfortunately as they

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moved from Phase 2 to three and they

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became more flexible with the price

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limitations and the Authority for the

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economic stabilization act which was

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useful for the time it was in existence

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expired well then we started going back

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to the free market and boy the free

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market does not like price controls so

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you'll notice with a massive surge of

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inflation as Nixon's price controls

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started getting pulled back and were

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eventually eliminated except this time

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instead of having a peak of about 6%

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inflation we actually ended up with a

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peak of nearly

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125% inflation substantially worse than

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the first time around this all the while

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we just left the gold standard which

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sent a massive signal to Americans that

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said hey you know what prices are not

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only going to go up but now your money

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is not even backed by gold so just have

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faith I guess and so the faith that you

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were supposed to have in Fiat was based

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entirely on Rising prices as price

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controlled were removed it didn't help

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that Arthur Burns was more concerned

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with what politicians wanted than what

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was good for the economy this is why the

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Federal Reserve today demands that they

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be independent from politicians of

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course many people are going to Ru their

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eyes at that and say yeah right they're

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independent we'll see them come out

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swinging for the election entirely

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possible it could also be a coincidence

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in fact Mr Arthur Burns mismanaged

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Federal Reserve policy so badly that he

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sent the message to Americans that while

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they felt inflation was getting worse

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and their dollar was becoming worth less

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especially since it was no longer backed

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by gold he thought it was a good idea to

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raise rates then lower rates then raise

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rates then lower lower then raise then

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pause then raise then pause then raise

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then pause then raise then pause then

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lower then raise then raise then raise

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then lower then pause as you can see

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there was really no consistency or

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leading effort by the FED to actually

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drive any kind of narrative of what

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Americans should come to expect this in

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hindsight became known as one of the

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greatest failures of Federal Reserve

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monetary policies in fact here on the

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federalreserve.gov webbsite you could

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see here the FED inadvertently committed

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a technical error by implementing an

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interest policy rule in which nominal

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interest rates removed less than

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expected inflation in other words the

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FED didn't shoot ahead of the Running

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Deer the Fed was constantly chasing the

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deer and not catching up to the deer of

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inflation it's pretty important that we

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talk about how today compares to the 70s

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and after we talk about how today

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compares to the 70s with regard to

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inflation we're going to compare how we

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this is a chart of current levels of

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inflation in the United States as you

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could see housing is starting to roll

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over in fact a lot of folks think that

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housing which has been so freaking slow

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to be measured by the bizarre way the

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government measures housing prices which

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is via owner equivalent rents which is

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kind of maddening and super delayed

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sometimes by 18 months housing could end

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up helping drive us into deflation even

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as some of these potentially start

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popping up again it's not just our

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inflation reads though which some people

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called CP lie it's also deflation in the

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Euro Zone especially in Germany in fact

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the Euro Zone may be in outright

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recession with the latest GDP reads

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coming in at negative.

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one%

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ne4 to 12% producer price indices in uh

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uh Germany as well as

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negative PP and Manufacturing price

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rates in China with the idea that these

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large manufacturing nations may actually

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end up exporting deflation to us

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exporting deflation is just a fancy way

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of saying oh sure uh you can buy your

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stuff in America for substantially more

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money or you could have it manufactured

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in Germany or Bulgaria or China or

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anywhere else for substantially less and

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of course since we're in a capitalistic

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economy most business businesses will

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choose to manufacture things where it is

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cheapest not necessarily where it is

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American now when we look at core CPI

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and this of course over a trend from a

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year ago we can see here core cepi

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coming down nicely core Services X

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housing coming down nicely and even

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though these are very very volatile on a

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month-over-month basis when we look at

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3month moving averages for these on a

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month-over-month basis we see almost all

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of these SE numbers trending down nicely

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these positive inflation reads

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especially over the last few months have

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helped us finally feel like maybe we've

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hit Peak treasury yields which basically

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hit about 5% as Bill Amman and his

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fellow hedge fund managers decided to

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short the heck out of the treasuries

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market which remember when you short

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treasuries prices go down and then

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yields go up the reason you think yields

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would go up and you would sell or short

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treasuries is because you think the

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fed's going to go higher for longer but

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the Federal Reserve has recently

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u-turned in their tune of what direction

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they might actually want to go and

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that's probably because of what happened

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in

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1982 and that flip from the Federal

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Reserve is probably because of what

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happened in

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1982 which is a big oopsy dupsies

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consider though first for a moment what

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the Federal Reserve just said the right

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way to think about it is what's

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potential growth this year TR people

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think Trend growth over a long period of

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time is a little bit less than 2% or I

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would say just around 2% but um what

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we've had is with with the you know

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Improvement in the size of the labor

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force as I mentioned through both

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participation and uh immigration and

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with the the you know the better

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functioning in the labor market and with

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with h you know the unwinding of the

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supply chain and shortages and those

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kinds of things you're seeing actually

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elevated potential growth there's

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catchup growth that can happen in

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potential and that means that if you're

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grow you could be growing at 2% this

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year and still be glowing growing below

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the increase in the potential output of

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the economy that I hope that's clear

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that's really what's going on that's

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that's why I would say it as potential

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but if

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you did you catch that the Federal

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Reserve for a very long time for years

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has said hey wait a minute you know if

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the economy is going to grow at 2%

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we just want the economy to grow a

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little bit under that so we don't create

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inflation but wait a minute now Jerome

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Powell has walked that back because that

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might imply you have to do a lot more to

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press the economy below that now Jerome

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Powell is saying well you know if the

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economy on under normal interest rates

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could grow here you know we just want it

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to be a little bit less than that it

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doesn't actually have to be below Trend

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it just has to be below potential so as

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long as our rates are working a bit

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we're good this is actually a massive

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U-turn it's a U-turn that's inspired by

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inflation Trends coming down possibly

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driven by the desire not to mess up the

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second part of the Dual mandate which is

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this chart you're about to get explained

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by me but the FED has many tools for not

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going too far what one of those tools is

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by stopping no longer raising rates

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anymore and that's essentially what

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Jerome Powell has implied here that

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they're done the second thing that they

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can do is they can be a little bit more

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patient with regard to inflation this

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would be called opportunistic

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disinflation in other words the same

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policy that we used from

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1981 to now as you can see as interest

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rates normalized down that same policy

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could be used now to slowly lower rates

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as inflation goes down and not super

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prioritize inflation anymore and instead

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prioritize jobs but why would the FED be

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motivated to prioritize jobs after all

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their mandate is a dual mandate one of

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stable prices and maximum employment

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well what happened 18 months after the

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Federal Reserve raised rates at Peak

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which they just did this summer what

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happened 18 months later in other words

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around the end of

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2024 the unemployment rate

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skyrocketed that is exactly what the

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Federal Reserve is trying to avoid see

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the Federal Reserve isn't only trying to

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avoid the mistakes of someone like

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Arthur Burns remember Arthur Burns made

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a big mistake Arthur made the mistake of

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start stop he made the mistake of

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breaking people's infl

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expectations to the upside people came

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not to trust the Federal Reserve they

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had no trust for the Federal Reserve and

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they believe that inflation would

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continue to go up because why wouldn't

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it it has been for the last 10 years as

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of say 77 it's been going up for 10

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years why would it not continue to go up

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and it wasn't until Paul vulker came to

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put the pants back on so to speak and

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say listen you must trust us we will

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break this economy we are going to go up

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until you believe us and you start

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thinking inflation's coming down which

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actually started happening in 82 83 and

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' 84 the Federal Reserve including Paul

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vulker remarked ohuh people's inflation

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expectations are going down this is

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fantastic news the problem though is the

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Fed doesn't only want to avoid problem

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one which is high inflation expectations

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and a lack of trust which they already

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screwed up with the whole inflationist

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transitory thing so they're starting off

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a bad foot right not only do they want

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to avoid this but they also want to

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avoid problem number two which is this

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18mon lag in employment all of a sudden

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destroying our economy potentially right

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around the time conveniently of the

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election we've already started to see

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our jobs reports indicate that we are in

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a late stage cycle a late stage cycle is

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where most of the jobs that are created

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are created by the government we've

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we've already started seeing that the

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government in healthcare taking a

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disproportionate share of new jobs why

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is that a risk because it means uhoh we

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could be six months into massive

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unemployment I write it as UI it's

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unemployment insurance that's the

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nickname we give for unemployment we

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could be six months in so in other words

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in a year from now solely because of the

24:23

work the FED did in the last year and a

24:26

half could come back to bite us and so

24:29

because inflation is trending down the

24:31

FED has to start pulling back on their

24:34

pressure on inflation alone while

24:37

pretending to act like ah we're still

24:39

going for 2% they're slowly starting to

24:42

soften their stance and flip flop

24:44

because they don't want to make the

24:46

second mistake and cause massive and

24:49

unnecessary unemployment because as

24:51

Jerome Powell himself says that causes

24:54

unnecessary human suffering and that is

24:57

not what the Federal Reserve wants to

24:59

cause so what does that mean for real

25:03

estate and where are we today by the way

25:06

with inflation break evens and what

25:08

about the banking crisis where do we sit

25:10

with all of these numbers as well as the

25:13

inverted yield curve well the cool thing

25:15

about the inverted yield curve is it

25:17

does usually predict a recession anytime

25:19

we get under this roughly white dotted

25:21

line here we tend to have a recession

25:23

and you'll notice that the last time we

25:25

inverted this deeply which you see how

25:28

deeply we inverted here was back in the

25:30

early ' 80s so the FED wants to avoid

25:33

this pain so far they're on the

25:35

trajectory of creating just that pain

25:38

now some people say this curve is messed

25:40

up like this because inflation

25:41

expectations and inflation itself is so

25:44

high now or has been so high now and was

25:47

so high back then so it makes sense that

25:49

in the short term you need a higher

25:51

yield on a short-term Bond then you need

25:52

a long-term Bond other people say

25:54

explain it how you want this says a

25:56

recession's coming and joblessness is

25:58

coming and I think the Bears might be

26:01

right here and Jerome pow though knows

26:03

that and he knows that that unemployment

26:05

is coming so when we had unemployment in

26:09

the early 80s what ended up happening to

26:13

the housing market did the housing

26:16

market end up substantially crashing as

26:19

the Fed was dealing with inflation well

26:22

here is a chart of year-over-year home

26:25

prices and what we found with

26:27

year-over-year home prices is that they

26:31

did go

26:32

negative by about 1 a 12% for a slight

26:37

blip in approximately

26:40

1982 in conjunction with the heavy

26:43

levels of unemployment that we faced now

26:46

we don't yet have those levels of

26:47

unemployment so the housing market has

26:49

been relatively stable in fact we're

26:50

still positive in terms of price

26:52

appreciation this is a change

26:54

year-over-year chart so anything above

26:57

this means prices are still going up of

26:59

course they're going up at a slower rate

27:00

but they're still going up unlike the

27:02

price deflation we saw where prices fell

27:05

30 to 40% in uh between 2007 and 2011

27:10

2012 where some markets bottomed so

27:13

interestingly perhaps today is not

27:16

different at all from the early 80s

27:18

perhaps today the next thing that's

27:20

going to happen is quite frankly little

27:23

for the housing market but the next big

27:26

problem is actually unemployment see

27:30

maybe this time isn't different at all

27:33

we're actually in the same exact path

27:37

see people say well Kevin why wouldn't

27:39

this be a 2008 well because back in the

27:42

early 80s and today people had stable

27:47

mortgages that they could afford they

27:49

didn't have the interest rate interest

27:52

only ninja loans and deadbeat loans that

27:55

they had in 2008 in 2008 not only did

27:59

you have deadbeat loans but you were

28:01

paid to walk away by short sale lenders

28:04

who didn't want to go through a

28:05

foreclosure process so they'd pay you

28:07

$10 to $220,000 just to leave your house

28:09

and sell it and eradicate all the other

28:12

debt that you had but today just like in

28:14

the early

28:15

80s we have way more Equity we have

28:18

stable 30-year fixed rate financing and

28:20

we have less of a desire for people to

28:22

move because rates are so high so we

28:24

actually don't get price discovery which

28:28

if we look at what's recently been

28:31

happening with pricing by looking at a

28:33

4-we moving average we'd actually see

28:36

the orange line here is

28:39

2023 we can actually see this is the

28:41

months of Supply chart in the months of

28:44

Supply chart here we're roughly in line

28:46

with the supply months of Supply that we

28:48

had in

28:50

2022 obviously that Trends up in the

28:52

winter season that's generally normal 21

28:55

we stayed a little below Trend there

28:57

there was such a shortage prices are

29:00

actually now slightly above what they

29:02

were last year that white line there

29:05

represents 2022 the blue represents how

29:08

much above last year we are now don't

29:11

get me wrong prices did correct

29:12

especially in some of the uh short-term

29:15

rental heavy and covid heavy markets we

29:18

definitely Nationwide saw prices go from

29:20

about a Peak in May of 2022 down to a

29:23

low nearly a 15% correction across the

29:26

entire country in December of 2022 and

29:30

that's actually been even worse for new

29:32

home developers now I'll explain new

29:35

home developers in a moment but think

29:37

about that for a moment if we are really

29:40

no different than the 80s then it makes

29:43

sense maybe that really we just see a

29:45

volume collapse of real estate rather

29:47

than a massive price collapse for resale

29:50

real estate at the same time the biggest

29:52

concern that the Federal Reserve should

29:53

have going forward would be unemployment

29:56

and not inflation unless of course

29:58

inflation starts rearing its head again

29:59

but so far it doesn't look like it is

30:01

knock on W that it

30:03

doesn't what about new construction

30:05

homes though well new construction homes

30:08

are a little bit manipulative in that

30:11

most new construction

30:13

homes buyers don't actually pay the

30:17

prices that are listed that the homes

30:19

sell for usually these prices are

30:22

propped up by building incentives for

30:25

example a new construction home builder

30:26

might say hey pay $480,000 in this house

30:29

for this house we'll give you $50,000 of

30:31

upgrades you know worth 40 let's say for

30:34

flooring countertops cabinets whatever

30:36

so buyer's really paying like 440 that

30:39

would be just a quick example recently

30:42

though those sticker prices even

30:45

including those upgrades haven't been as

30:47

attractive for home buyers to actually

30:49

buy new construction builds with and so

30:51

we have started to see those sticker

30:53

prices come down actually quite a bit if

30:56

you look on the left side of this chart

30:59

you can see we hit a high of nearly

31:02

$500,000 and that level has now come

31:06

down now we're sitting just around

31:11

$415,000 that represents a good 15 plus

31:14

per discount on new construction

31:17

properties compared to exactly their

31:19

Peak that's probably a

31:22

normalization of ah these incentives of

31:26

stuff aren't working anymore we actually

31:28

have to lower the price but it's

31:30

definitely still a red flag to pay

31:32

attention to because if new construction

31:34

home prices come down they could also

31:37

Drive non- new construction or resale

31:40

prices down and this makes sense because

31:43

after all if you have more new

31:44

construction homes continuing to be

31:45

built and they're sold at lower prices

31:47

why buy an older home when you could

31:49

just buy a newer home at potentially

31:51

cheaper price so this is definitely a

31:53

red flag but it's unclear if that is

31:57

going to be anything like 2008 or

32:01

1981 now a few extra things before we

32:04

get to our conclusion first it's very

32:06

common for folks on Twitter to say

32:08

things like this the music is about to

32:10

stop if you stay at the ball too late

32:13

everything may turn into pumpkin and

32:16

mice basically quote tweeting a photo

32:20

here of us household cumulative ex

32:22

savings uh or excess savings rather

32:25

going all the way down and trending down

32:26

to about zero probably by April

32:30

2024 the problem with this post is it

32:33

forgets that cumulative excess savings

32:36

before the pandemic were also zero and

32:41

the party hadn't started in fact the

32:44

party was still going so I personally

32:46

don't find this too useful just like I

32:49

don't find this too useful here's a

32:52

self-proclaimed PhD who says the Federal

32:54

Reserve is just making up policy as they

32:56

go go which is really rich because the

32:59

fed's literally been saying that four

33:01

years this isn't a surprise they've just

33:03

been saying look when the data comes in

33:04

we'll make a decision but anyway because

33:06

of that they suggest that the Federal

33:08

Reserve created this Hydra and they

33:09

don't know how to kill the bank term

33:11

funding program it's worth remembering

33:14

that the banking facility that the

33:16

Federal Reserve has has about $11

33:19

billion in it $11 billion might sound

33:24

like a lot but when we compare that to

33:26

the entire scope of the banking system

33:30

which is about2 trillion in size the

33:34

bank term funding program is super

33:38

nominal and probably not relevant in

33:41

whether or not we should be fearful of

33:44

what's to come so how do we draw

33:45

conclusions

33:47

for so how do we draw conclusions from

33:50

this and what should we do well let's

33:52

write those out so first of all we must

33:56

consider that unless inflation pops up

33:59

again the Federal Reserve is probably

34:03

done let's just call it the FED is done

34:06

raising rates the pause is in the FED

34:09

had their last rate hike this summer and

34:12

that starts an 18mon clock to where in

34:16

1982 we caused massive unemployment

34:20

which means the 12 month let's write

34:23

that down the 12 month clock is

34:29

ticking now the question is will the

34:32

Federal Reserve respect that the clock

34:35

is ticking so far markets believe that

34:38

the Federal Reserve will cut rates by

34:40

about 9/10 of a percent by December of

34:46

2024 if they do that could be supportive

34:49

to some interest rate sensitive sectors

34:51

like cars or solar or otherwise but if

34:54

this clock is truly tricky if this this

34:57

clock is truly ticking then the reality

35:00

is the Federal Reserve might have to cut

35:02

rates by a lot more than .9% in fact the

35:07

Federal Reserve might have to cut rates

35:08

by as much as

35:10

2.9% we'll call it 3% hopefully as

35:14

inflation goes down the Federal Reserve

35:16

is able to do this to prevent large

35:19

layoffs from really destroying the

35:21

economy because even though we can have

35:23

fluctuations in home builder prices

35:25

between let's say May and November of

35:27

the next year uh that is perfectly

35:30

drawing lines from top to bottom the

35:33

reality is housing is driven by

35:35

employment and if we can avoid an

35:37

unemployment recession like we had in

35:40

2008 or we can avoid the unemployment

35:43

recession like we had in 82 where prices

35:46

barely came down if we could just avoid

35:49

an unemployment recession of either of

35:50

those scenarios there's a good chance

35:52

housing prices might actually start

35:54

trending up again rather than down down

35:57

in 2024 especially as yields start

36:00

coming down now some do argue that as

36:03

rates go down inventory will go up and

36:05

we'll have more price Discovery and

36:06

therefore prices will come down so

36:08

there's a risk factor there as well but

36:10

if the Federal Reserve does prioritize

36:13

unemployment many are fearful that the

36:16

Federal Reserve will end up

36:18

inducing more

36:20

inflation the reason people believe this

36:23

is because our economy was so strong in

36:25

2021 one that a lot of folks thought oh

36:29

my gosh this is great the economy is

36:31

killing it and then we got inflation so

36:33

we almost trained people with recent

36:35

history to believe that a strong economy

36:37

equals inflation but the reality is

36:41

we've had a relatively strong economy

36:44

since 1982 and we've been facing

36:47

disinflation sure there have been booms

36:49

and busts like in 87 but we bottomed out

36:52

way higher than where we were in ' 82

36:54

bubble 08 covid recession it's worth

36:58

remembering that a strong economy does

37:01

not equal inflation that we can have a

37:04

strong capitalistic economy without

37:05

inflation and the reason that exists is

37:07

because the Federal Reserve is actually

37:10

constantly fighting deflation see

37:13

capitalism reduces prices it makes

37:16

things more competitive like the

37:18

delicious prices we now have on that

37:20

Cyber Monday sale at meetkevin.com

37:22

but the Federal Reserve doesn't want

37:25

deflation because that makes it harder

37:27

for people to want to take on debt

37:29

because the debt becomes more expensive

37:31

to pay off so the FED prints money to

37:35

induce a slight bit of inflation to

37:37

encourage you to spend and encourage the

37:39

economy to keep growing and help you pay

37:41

off your debt easier as hopefully you

37:42

earn more while your debt stays the same

37:45

as a result the Federal Reserve really

37:48

hates deflation even worse than they

37:51

hate inflation and this could end up

37:53

leading to the money printers coming

37:56

right back on conveniently around the

37:59

time of the election and I strongly

38:02

believe this election won't be decided

38:05

by how people feel today it'll be

38:07

decided by how people feel in a year

38:09

from now thanks so much for watching if

38:11

you like this style of presenting leave

38:13

me a comment down below if you didn't

38:15

like it leave me a comment we'll see you

38:16

in the next one bye

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