“Soviet Joe” Biden Bails Out US Auto Industry With Up To $12 Billion In Loans/Grants As Green Energy Mandates Crush Auto Industry (Shades Of Banking Crisis, Another Federally Created Monster!)

Soviet Joe Biden, who is a believer in Soviet-style command economies where rather than rely on free market capitalism, we now have CC (Crony Communism) running the US economy. Into the ground. But in the tradition of bad Federal policiies, Soviet Joe and Energy Secretary Granholm (with help from Congress) mandate green energy transition at all costs, watch the auto industry suffer, then bail them out. Sounds a lot of like the banking crisis of 2008 where The Federal government pushed homeownership until it helped almost collapse the banking sector, then the Federal government bailed out the banks. Rinse, repeat, bailout. And the bailout of banks in going! (Notice that The Fed has barely shrunk its $8+ trillion balance sheet!).

Automakers are looking to finish the week with strength after it was announced on Thursday that the Biden administration would be making “up to $12 billion” available to retrofit facilities to make both EVs and hybrids.

The money will include $10 billion from a US Energy Department loan program for clean vehicles and an additional $3.5 billion in financing to expand domestic battery manufacturing, according to Bloomberg.

The United Auto Workers, currently in negotiations with Detroit, has argued that a shift to EVs will cost the industry union jobs. US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said on Thursday that the funding would help Detroit retain workers.

However, we’ve seen this “bailout” business model to save jobs before – at banks and during Covid, to name two examples – and it always winds up turning into a company cash grab before ultimately firing workers regardless. The UAW will try to prevent such a situation from taking place as it negotiates.

UAW President Shawn Fain “cautiously” welcomed the news after warning earlier this month that the White House should not push an EV agenda if it means the loss of jobs in Detroit.

Almost like the government should stay out of the auto industry as a whole, right? But that would make too much sense.

“The EV transition must be a just transition that ensures auto workers have a place in the new economy,” Fain said this week. Meanwhile, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, a Washington lobby group that represents most Detroit automakers, said this week the funding “will further advance the domestic automotive supply chain and globally competitive battery manufacturing platform that automakers have already made sizable investments.”

Instead, Bloomberg calls the move the Biden administration “doubling down on efforts to support carmakers’ transition to EVs”. In a statement this week, President Biden said: “This funding will help existing workers keep their jobs and have the first shot to fill new good jobs as the car industry transforms for future generations.”

The Biden administration continues to aim for half of all vehicles on the road being EVs by 2030.

Oh and now that UAW Boss seeks 46% raise and 32-hour work week. Reminds me of Federal student loans where students run up massive amounts of debt to major in useless degrees like political “science” and gender/race studies, yet universities hire more admininstrators.

About The Jobs Report! Two-month Drop In Full-time Jobs Was 670K, Biggest Plunge Since Covid Lockdowns In 2020 (Mulitple Job Holders Rise To Cope With Inflation)

Covid is the gift that keeps on giving … to lazy bureaucrats and teachers union members. And a horror for small businesses and students since small businesse go bankrupt and students suffer from lack of education. And now The Federal Government is fearmongering (hey, that’s all they do!) ANOTHER Covid outbreak with Deep State Joe Biden advocating for more Federal spending on vaccines and telling everyone to get yet ANOTHER vaccination. And wear useless masks as a sign of obidience to The Democrat Party.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that in August the number of full-time jobs dropped again, sliding by 85K to 134.2 million, and followed the whopping 585K plunge in July which brings the two-month total drop in full-time jobs to a whopping 670K, the biggest 2-month plunge since the covid lockdowns in early 2020 when 12.5 million full-time jobs were lost in one month!

But if full-time jobs crashed how did the BLS get an increase of 222,000 employed workers? Simple: it was all in the latest jump of part-time workers. Indeed, in August the number of reported part-timers jumped by 32K and when added to the near-record 972K surge in July, the 2-month total was just over one million – 1,004,000 to be precise – to 27.185 million.

Going back to a quantitative read of the data, we look at the number of multiple jobholders – those workers who have to work more than one job at a time to make ends meet. In August this number was actually a modest silver lining, as it dropped by July, that number dropped by 85K to 8.028 million, but it remains just shy of the pre-covid record.

Given the extreme level of corruption in the Biden Administration, the Democrat Party should be renamed after New York’s Tammany Hall.

And require all people to wear a Tammany Hall fez instead of a mask.

Bidenomics 101 (Income): Real Gross Domestic Income Growth NEGATIVE For 3 Consecutive Quarters As M2 Money Growth Worst Since 1933 And The New Deal (Only 187k Jobs Added In August And ALL Of Last Year’s Jobs Added Were Revised Downwards)

The glories of Bidenomics is on fully display. Despite what Lyin’ Biden says, Bidenomics is only working for the elites (top 1%). How Soviet/CCP command economy of him!

Here is an ugly chart showing Bidenomics in action! We all know that Covid unleashed a torrent of Fed monetary stimulus AND Federal spending on Covid relief and green energy subsidies (most to large Democrats donors). BUT we now have experienced 3 consectutive quarters of negative gross domestic income (GDI) growth. And nominal GDI growth is falling with falling M2 Money growth.

And today’s jobs report for August showed that only 187k jobs were added.

Superficially this would have meant an unchanged print from last month when the BLS also reported 187K jobs, however in keeping with recent trends that number was revised – drumroll – lower again, to 157K, meaning that every single monthly payrolls print in 20-23 has been revised lower (see chart below), a 12-sigma probability and virtually impossible unless there was political pressure to massage the data higher initially and then revise it lower when nobody is looking. (As if the mainstream media is at all honest!)

But wait there’s more: while July was revised down by 30K from +187,000 to +157,000, June was revised even more, by 80,000, from +185,000 to +105,000, which means that a number that was originally reported as 209K has been reivsed 50% lower, to 105K and a collapse vs original expectations of 230K. Here, the BLS was proud to report that “with these revisions, employment in June and July combined is 110,000 lower than previously reported.”

And we have The Conference Board’s confidence index at -65. Yikes!

Finally, we have the 10Y-3M UST spread SCREAMING recession!

So, the economy is slowing under Bidenomics and Cadavar Joe.

Will Cadavar Joe actually go out on the campaign trail and debate ANY Democrat or Republican?? Remember, this is the man with the nuclear launch codes.

Another Bidenomics Report Bites The Dust! Challenger Jobs Cuts Increase By 267% YoY (Biden Bowl?)

Another (economic report) bites the dust!

U.S.-based employers announced 75,151 cuts in August, a 217% increase from the 23,697 cuts announced one month prior. It is 267% higher than the 20,485 cuts announced in the same month in 2022,

As M2 Money growth collapses to Great Depression levels. Instead of The Dust Bowl, we can call this The Biden Bowl.

This great meme can be replaced by “Our President is as cold as your ex’s heart.”

Bidenomics 101 (Housing): US Pending Home Sales Decline -14% Year-over-Year As M2 Money Growth Worst Since 1933 And The Great Depression (Reverend Joe?)

Another economic report on Bidenomics. This one is for housing.

Realtors Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)* – a forward-looking indicator of home sales based on contract signings – rose 0.9% to 77.6 in July. Year over year, pending transactions fell by 14.0%. An index of 100 is equal to the level of contract activity in 2001.

Combine that with crashing M2 Money growth (lowest since 1933 and The Great Depression (and The Dust Bowl). The difference is that the US had the soothing talks of Franklin Roosevelt “I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.”
—President Franklin Roosevelt in his first Fireside Chat, March 12, 1933. Unfortunately, we have Joe Biden, the WORST public speaker in history and a completely unempathetic person.

Delinquencies on auto loans, credit cards and consumer loans are at their highest levels in a decade.

Instead of Sleepy Joe, Middle Class Joe, Corrupt Joe (sounds like Cuppa Joe), and any of the multitude of unflattering nicknames, we now have REVEREND JOE.

About That Legendary Jobs Market Under Bidenomics! ADP Jobs Added “Underwhelming” In August As Job Openings (JOLTs) Collapse

Billions Biden, the President who loves to (recklessly) spend taxpayer money (mostly on large donors). is going to have difficuly spinnig the latest employment figures.

First, ADP jobs added only 177k jobs in August.

Second, job openings (JOLTs) are collapsing (blue line) while the S&P 500 index keeps climbing (orange line).

The face of Bidenomics. The high Priestess of BIG GOVERNMENT and oppression.

US Q2 GDP Revised Sharply Downwards To 2.1% (We Got Trouble In Potomac City!)

Bidenomics has a new themesong! We got trouble in Potomac City (aka, Washington DC). US Q2 GDP was revised sharply downwards to 2.1% QoQ. Much lower than the expected 2.4% QoQ.

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2023, according to the “second” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 2.0 percent.

The GDP estimate released today is based on more complete source data than were available for the “advance” estimate issued last month. In the advance estimate, the increase in real GDP was 2.4 percent (refer to “Updates to GDP”). The updated estimates primarily reflected downward revisions to private inventory investment and nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by an upward revision to state and local government spending.

The increase in real GDP reflected increases in consumer spending, nonresidential fixed investment, state and local government spending, and federal government spending that were partly offset by decreases in exports, residential fixed investment, and private inventory investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.

The revision according to the BEA, “reflected a smaller decrease in inventory investment and an acceleration in business investment. These movements were partly offset by a downturn in exports and decelerations in consumer spending and federal government spending. Imports turned down.” In short, everything was uglier,

Taking a closer look at the data, we find the following changes to the bottom line:

Personal consumption added 1.14% to the bottom line print or just over half, up from 1.12% in the original print; annualized this comes out to 1.7% which was below the 1.8% estimate.
Fixed investment contributed 0.66%, down from 0.83%
Change in private inventories now subtracting 0.09% from the bottom line number, a big swing from the positive 0.14% print in the original estimate. And it will be revised even lower next month as more of the “shrink” emerges.
Net exports were also revised lower, with gross exports trimmed from -1.28% to -1.26%, while imports were revised from 1.16% to 1.04%
Finally the ever handy plug that is government consumption (which is a garbage concept since the government does not actually create anything of economic value in the economy but merely allocated graft and embezzlement of public funding), actually rose from 0.45% to 0.58% (of bottom line GDP). Without this revision, Q2 GDP would have printed below 2.0%

Separately, gross domestic purchases prices, the prices of goods and services purchased by U.S. residents, increased
1.7% in the second quarter after increasing 3.8 percent in the first quarter, above the 1.6% estimate last month but below the consensus 1.8%. Excluding food and energy, prices increased 2.4% after increasing 4.2%.

Personal consumption expenditure (PCE) prices increased 2.5% in the second quarter after increasing 4.1% in the first quarter. Excluding food and energy, the PCE “core” price index increased 3.7% after increasing 4.9%. This number was also revised lower from 3.8% and missed estimates of 3.8%.

Finally, the BEA reported corporate profits decreased 0.4% at a quarterly rate in the second quarter after decreasing 4.1% in the first quarter. Profits of domestic financial corporations decreased 12.1% after decreasing 2.3 percent. Profits of domestic nonfinancial corporations increased 0.9% after decreasing 5.0 percent. Profits from the rest of the world (net)increased 4.4 percent after decreasing 2.0 percent. Corporate profits decreased 6.5 percent in the second quarter from one year ago.

Needless to say, all this is a far cry from the rebound in corporate profits that companies themselves reported in their various GAAP and non-GAAP metrics, which is to be expected in a world where there is now an uncrossable chasm between economic data and its government fabrications.

Then we have M2 Money collapsing, down -3.7% in July. Longest, deepest contraction of money suppy since 1933.

Biden, making Zelenskyy rich again!! The US bought Zelenskyy a new villa! “The document indicates that the villa was purchased by Zelenskyy’s mother-in-law in May 2023. The price of the villa is 150,000,000 Egyptian pounds or approximately $4,850,000.” Thanks Biden!!! America last!

Bidenomics At Work! US Purchase Mortgage Demand Decreased 0.3% Since Last Week, Down -27% Since Last Year (Mortgage Rate UP 157% Under Biden)

I wonder if Biden will use his writeboard to brag about the 30-year mortgage rate rising 157% under his economic Reign on Error? Aka, Bidenomics.

Mortgage applications increased 2.3 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending August 25, 2023.

The Market Composite Index, a measure of mortgage loan application volume, increased 2.3 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier. On an unadjusted basis, the Index increased 1 percent compared with the previous week. The Refinance Index increased 3 percent from the previous week and was 28 percent lower than the same week one year ago. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 2 percent from one week earlier. The unadjusted Purchase Index decreased 0.3 percent compared with the previous week and was 27 percent lower than the same week one year ago.

Bidenomics Gets Jolted! US Job Openings Fall To 8.82 Million In July (Down -22.4%) As M2 Money Growth Collapses

Bidenomics just got jolted! US job openings in July collapsed by -22.4% to 8.82 million job openings. As M2 Money growth remains negative.

You can see the same collapse in growth of job openings in this chart.

Apparently, Powell and The Gang at The Federal Reserve have to keep on printing!

Here is alleged Civil Righter advocate Joe Biden saying the N- word in Congress. I can’t believe this stupid, demente fool is our President.

Bidenomics, BRICS And US Weakness

The US has a bad case of failed leadership and misguided economic policies.

Joe Biden is an incredibly weak President. I am not talking about his age or his deteriorating mental faculties. I am talking about ordering his attorney general to indict his chief political opponent, Donald Trump. How does the world interpret this weakness? BADLY.

The US has gone off the rails in terms of printing money, particularly since COVID struck and money printing went wild.

Under Biden’s Reign of Error and the US reckless money printing, more countries are abandoning King Dollar (based of fiat currency) and joining BRICS. Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and a host of countries joining like Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, UAE, etc.

Now, the rest of the world is still stuck on the US Dollar as reserve currency … for now. But as Biden gets weaker and weaker, watch more countries join BRICs.

According to Reuters, there are over 40 countries that have expressed interest in joining BRICS. A smaller group of 16 countries have actually applied for membership, though, and this list includes Algeria, Cuba, Indonesia, Palestine, and Vietnam. Pretty soon, under Biden’s crazy leadership, we may be the last man standing in using the US Dollar as reserve currency.

Then we have the other shoe dropping with Bidenomics.

Joe Biden, along with most of the media and other Democrats believe in bigger government, higher taxes, and massive regulations.

As soon as Biden took office, he set out to destroy industries that produce reasonably priced energy. He focused tremendous effort on deficit spending and borrowing to hand out “government goodies” to buy votes; recipients of this government largesse, in large part, included debt-saddled students, the green mafia, and leftist activists.

When Biden took office, inflation was under 2%, despite COVID and supply chain disruptions; shortly after, it skyrocketed to over 9%. Now inflation increases are “down” but prices remain exceptionally high compared to pre-Biden.

For example, crude oil prices, which affect almost everything and are used in over 6,000 products, are roughly double what they were when Biden took over.

President Trump focused on reduced regulations and energy independence, and implemented lower tax rates, all moves that greatly helped the American people. In contrast, Biden focuses on ensuring bureaucrats rapidly increase regulations which raises costs for everyday Americans; he’s waging economic war against us. Very few of Biden’s regulations go through Congress. From the White House archives:

Between FY 2017 and FY 2019, the Trump Administration has cut nearly eight regulations for every new, significant regulation….

The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) estimates that this pro-growth approach to Federal regulation will raise real incomes by upwards of $3,100 per household per year.

Here are some recent reports of how well Biden policies are working:

Leading economic indicators have fallen for sixteen straight months. Maybe that is why people think the economy is moving in the wrong direction?

The current cost-of-living crisis is a manufactured one. As inflation rose, the Federal Reserve was forced to raise interest rates, which saw fewer people move. The cycle is very understandable, as simply explained in this one headline, “Housing Crunch: Home Sales Fall To Six Month Low…But Prices Rise Anyway”.

Parcel volumes are dropping by so much, freight pilots are “worried” about job security.

People are running up credit card debt and defaulting on car loans because of high inflation, and because their real wages haven’t been able to sustain them. Now, even more are falling behind on their payments. From CNN:

More Americans are failing to make payments on their credit cards and auto loans, another sign of rising financial pressure on consumers.

New credit card and auto loan delinquencies have now surpassed pre-Covid levels, according to a Wednesday report issued by Moody’s Investors Service.

After years of promoting and subsidizing electric cars, they represent around 6% of total sales, and demand is clearly slowing. It wasn’t that long ago that well-to-do people were buying these electric toys so quickly that they were placed on waiting lists; now, inventories are building because they are too impractical and expensive:

Auto News understands that there is currently a 103-day supply of unsold EVs in the United States. While it did not specify how many units are sitting on dealership lots, it says there is a higher supply of unsold EVs than any other automotive segment, except those in the ultra-luxury and high-end luxury segments with supplies also reaching over 100 days.

So what is Biden’s solution? Force people to buy them.

Here are some simple economics questions for the media and other Democrats:

Does flooding the U.S with illegals help or hurt housing availability and affordability?

Will the intentional destruction of oil and coal companies help or hurt the middle class and the poor?

Yet, the media and other Democrats brag that Biden’s economic policies are great, and when the public gives Biden poor marks, they say that we just don’t understand, and we’re not willing to get behind a candidate if they fail to make us feel “warm and fuzzy.”

Are journalists really that unaware?

Of course, they always sought to destroy Trump as his policies, even as poverty sank to record lows amongst minorities, because they don’t really care about anything but big government. According to Census data:

In 2019, the poverty rate for the United States was 10.5%, the lowest since estimates were first released for 1959.

Poverty rates declined between 2018 and 2019 for all major race and Hispanic origin groups.

Two of these groups, Blacks and Hispanics, reached historic lows in their poverty rates in 2019.

Results and facts haven’t mattered to the complicit leftist media for a long time.

And perhaps the worst mistake Biden made (amongst his laundry list of horrible mistakes, [Afghanistan retreat, not showing up to E Palestine Ohio, Bidenomics that is a payoff to green donors and BIG corporate interests, an embarrasing visit to Maui two weeks after the fire, indicting his leading political opponent, ….) is the appointment of the WORST Federal Reserve Chair (Janet Yellen) as Treasury Secretary.