The Great Reset … In Housing? Typical Buyer’s Monthly Payment Up 39.4%—The Biggest Annual Gain on Record (Mortgage Rates SOARING With Anticipated Fed Monetary Tightening)

We now have the proverbial double whammy happening … soaring home prices AND soaring mortgage rates.

The theory is, of course, that The Federal Reserve will slowly remove its staggering monetary stimulus leftover from 1) the financial crisis of 2008 and 2) the Covid recession of 2020. As you can see, the sheer volume of monetary stimulus remains outstanding and it is the EXPECTATIONS of The Fed tightening that is caused the 30-year mortgage rate to rise.

So, The Federal Reserve is participating in The Great Reset by helping send mortgage rates to the moon. But with soaring mortgage rates and still red-hot home price growth, a typical buyer’s monthly payment is up 39% —the biggest annual gain on record.

While I used the Case-Shiller National Home Price Index YoY, Redfin shows more contemporaneous home price data with April 24 median home sales price at 16.8%.

Thanks to The Fed, we are seeing homebuyer mortgage payments are up 39.4% YoY.

As inflation continues to damage America’s middle-class and low- wage workers, we may see regulations going into effect from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau protecting consumers from … themselves.

Consumer Sentiment For Home Buying Crashes To Lowest Level Since 1982 As Bear Sentiment Takes Hold In Stock Market

Rising home prices and The Fed signaling an end to the perpetual punch bowl have resulted in the University of Michigan buying conditions for houses to hit the lowest level since 1982.

While bearish sentiment in markets highest since 2009 in the stock market.

I don’t get why Biden created a “Disinformation Control Board” led by Nina Jankowicz – a disinformation spewer. We already have disinformation media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, etc., so why create a Federal control board? All in time for the midyear elections!!

If this move by Biden doesn’t terrify you, then you didn’t study history.

Q1 US Employment Costs Skyrocket Most In History Helping To Increase Already Soaring Inflation (PCE YoY Rises To 40-year High of 6.60% YoY)

Not only has The Federal Reserve driven M2 Money Velocity to near historic lows, but now we find out that the Employment Cost Index just rose to a historic high.

Of course, a variety of minimum wage laws have helped drive up employments costs. Don’t tell lawmakers that minimum wage laws lead to higher inflation since they typically deny responsibility for anything. But I can almost picture the 4 Horsemen of the Inflation Apocalypse (Powell, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer) sitting around asking “What we can do to make inflation worse?”

We did see the PCE Deflator YoY rise to 6.6%, the highest since 1982, the highest in 40 years.

Personal spending increased to 1.1% in March, probably panicking buying over further inflation.

A PCE Deflator of 6.60% leads to a Taylor Rule estimate of 9.05% for The Fed Funds Target Rate.

The Federal government and Federal Reserve trying to solve inflation reminds me of Parks and Recreation’s Jerry Gergich trying to celebrate his retirement.

Bidenflation Roars To 25% YoY In March As Real GDP Growth Goes Negative (Clueless Joe)

While headline inflation is growing at 8.6% YoY in March, flexible price inflation grew at a terrifying 25% YoY rate.

Even with headline inflation of “only” 8.56% YoY, today’s Q1 real GDP growth checked in at -1.4% QoQ. Clearly, Bidenflation isn’t help the economy or anyone else.

Diesel prices have skyrocketed under Biden.

Instead of Shoeless Joe, we have Clueless Joe as President.

US Real GDP Q1 Goes Negative -1.4% QoQ As Price Growth Hits 8% (It’s Official! The Biden Economy Stinks!)

It’s official! The Biden economy stinks!

US real GDP growth for Q1 slipped into negative territory (-1.4% QoQ) while GDP price growth rose to 8%. So, negative real GDP growth is negative coupled with horrid inflation.

Personal consumption expenditures were below expectations at 2.7%.

Now that the Biden Administration has created an old Soviet Union-style Ministry of Disinformation (called the “Disinformation Governance Board”), I hope that I don’t get censored for reporting that the Biden economy officially stinks.

Good luck to The Federal Reserve in withdrawing the monetary stimulus.

Alarm! US Treasury 10-year Yields Rise Over 11 BPS As Treasuries And Agency MBS Continue Downward Price Path (Pension Funds, SSA BEWARE!!)

Alarm!

Particularly if you are a pension fund and hold US Treasuries and Agency Mortgage Backed Securities.

The bad news is that the 10-year US Treasury Note declined in price, sending the yield up over 10 bps today.

As The Fed is projected to raise its target rate over 10 times by February 2023, 10-year Treasury Note prices and agency MBS 3.5% prices continue to decline.

Here is a video of The Biden Administration and The Federal Reserve attacking pension funds and Social Security.

Heartaches In Heartaches! US Q2 Real-time GDP Stumbles To 0.446% As Fed Continues Monetary Stimulypto (What Will Happen When The Fed Pulls The Plug??) March Pending Home Sales Decline -8.90% YoY

Heartaches in heartaches. US GDP growth for Q2 has stumbled to 0.446% as The Fed is launching quantitative tightening (QT) to fight the inflation that they caused in the first place.

According to the Atlanta Fed’s GDPNow real-time GDP tracker, US GDP growth has stumbled to a meager 0.446%. Despite the massive stimulus from The Federal Reserve and Washington DC’s massive fiscal stimulus.

Biden, Powell and Congress are driving me crazy with inflation/price changes.

No corporate economists, inflation is NOT a good thing.

Pending home sales decline 8.9% in March, another heartache for Americans.

Will The Fed say good bye to its Snake Juice??

Going Down! MBA Mortgage Applications Dive 8.6% WoW, Purchase Apps Decline 7%, Refi Apps Decline 9% As Mortgage Rates Skyrocket (ARM Share Rose 9.4% WoW)

Thanks to The Federal Reserve helping to raise mortgage rates through the roof, mortgage applications are going down.

From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Decrease in Latest MBA Weekly Survey. Mortgage applications decreased 8.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending April 22, 2022.

The Refinance Index decreased 9 percent from the previous week and was 71 percent lower than the same week one year ago.

The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index decreased 8 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index decreased 7 percent compared with the previous week and was 17 percent lower than the same week one year ago.

The percentage of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) increase 9.4% from previous week.

Yes, the 30-year mortgage rate is rising extremely fast.

“You’re Going Down” by Jerome Powell and The Constitution Avenue band. President Joe Biden conducting.

The Fed’s Reverse Limbo Rock! Case-Shiller National Home Price Growth Accelerates In February To 19.80% YoY As Fed Keeps Foot On Accelerator

Making homes affordable is NOT one of the mottos for The Federal Reserve. But making homes outrageously unaffordable for the masses should be their motto.

The February Case-Shiller home price indices are out for February and the national home price index rose to 19.80% YoY.

Instead of the limbo rock, The Fed is apparently trying to see “How HIGH can we go?”

Once again, Phoenix is the fastest growing city in term of home prices at a sizzling 32.86% YoY. The slowest? Washington DC at 11.94% YoY. That’s right! 12 of the top 20 metro areas had price growth of over 20% in February!

Commodities Versus S&P 500 And The New World Order (Crashing Currencies And Flight To Commodities) The End Of US Dollar Hegemony?

Here is Dvorak’s New World Symphony, an appropriate piece the global turmoil that has taken place after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the ratio of the S&P 500 index against the Bloomberg Commodity Price Index. This ratio is plotted against The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet of assets. Notice the decline in the Commodity Ratio in 2022, even ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Global currencies, on the other hand, have been really crushed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Japanese Yen, China’s Renminbi and Europe’s Euro relative to the US Dollar are falling due to a variety of reasons. Covid lockdown in China, Japan’s insistence on monetary easing while other Central Banks are tightening and the Euro with Russia threatening nuclear war.

WTI Crude is back to $100 a barrel. Critical metals are down today related to a slowing global economy and wheat is up 2.75%.

Could it be that US Dollar hegemony is nearly over and commodity-backed currencies are the way of the future?