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Bryan's avatar

Rudy, you are a national treasure xxx

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al m's avatar

Thank god you're still writing for us...

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Kristi O'Sullivan's avatar

Your absence on Twitter is a loss for us all and probably inhibits finding new ‘students’; however, I love the email format - I can share you with family and friends - I couldn’t before because they weren’t Twitter people. One door closes - another opens

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Kristi O'Sullivan's avatar

And to think you were banned for this kind of information is kinda freaky.

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bigfatpop's avatar

I read these pieces and wish the lunatics in the Q movement were right, and then end up praying to a god I don't even know asking that you be wrong. I know the former is idiocy, and the latter doesn't seem much better. <sigh>

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Rudy Havenstein's avatar

QAnon in a million years couldn't do the damage that has been done by the people in power

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BJ's avatar

I agree most people don’t own stocks, or know anything about the FED.

But most people do buy gasoline and support themselves and a family and/or live on social security.

What’s going on is so cruel and hurtful. The elite, the government and financial institutes have no conscious, and we watch the destruction and burning continue.

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South side Stevens's avatar

A brilliant takedown of the Fed and its transgressions against the people it purports to be helping. Thanks for staying in the game when you could have chosen to retire after 148 years of hard work

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HAGEN GOCHT's avatar

read Fed Up immediately by Danielle DiMartio Booth

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Rudy Havenstein's avatar

She's good, yes

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Bitcoin Fortress's avatar

Nicely done. Keep up the great work. People need to learn the hard lessons one way or another.

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Spek's avatar

Thanks for your efforts RH. You shine a bright light on the bullshit for all to see. G** help us all.

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The Rational Walk's avatar

Markets are already melting down. The Fed could hike 75bp on Wednesday and I doubt it changes much, but they will most likely stick to 50bp. As Druckenmiller said last week, there’s never been a bout of serious inflation where the Fed funds rate didn’t go higher than the CPI. 100bp hikes for the rest of the year would put us at just under 6%. Way behind the curve.

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Rudy Havenstein's avatar

I think it was Joseph Wang I heard on a podcast say that if they don't overtly telegraph it (e.g., a 75 bps hike), it ain't gonna happen.

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The Rational Walk's avatar

If Nick Timiraos of WSJ doesn’t signal it, I doubt it happens, since he’s obviously well connected to Powell.

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Rudy Havenstein's avatar

Poster child of our abysmal Fed reporting. Captured suckup who then profits with a shitty book about the kleptocrats he promotes.

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The Rational Walk's avatar

Haven't read the book, but did interact with him a few times on Twitter. He was easily offended when I questioned whether his use of "hawkish" matched reality. Seems captured by the people he's reporting on, in my opinion.

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Rudy Havenstein's avatar

Look at his book subtitle: "How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic---and Prevented Economic Disaster". They're all captured.

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The Rational Walk's avatar

Right on cue he just posted this article floating a 75bp hike. When the Fed is in their "quiet period" they quite obviously rely on these connected reporters to float trial balloons to see how markets will react. Reporters who ask tough questions would lose the access and be "scooped" by others who play the game.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bad-inflation-reports-raise-odds-of-surprise-0-75-percentage-point-rate-rise-this-week-11655147927

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Very 0wn's avatar

You're an American Hero, Rudy.

History gets spinned in every single time cycles by certain group of individuals, who have been pretty clear of their motives from the start, yet somehow only nuts w/ good pattern recognition are able to recognize it - in desperate attempt to prevent the same disaster to come. How one could do it? Probably, critical mass of acknowledgement amongst the populous needed - the same populous, who been taught to ignore the nuts' critique.

Sometimes despair gets crashed on me w/ a desire not to proceed further, but then I recall some nuts, who've been going for years and brought me to the good fight for what is right, and that what keeps me going.

As Jesse Matchey citing "The Fifth Element" says - 'We need a 🍒'.

Never stop, sir. It's over when it's over - if anything, at least we tried.

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Wilbur Nelson's avatar

Dammit RH, missing you on days like today. Yikes.

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Live, Laugh, Colonel Kurtz's avatar

Verily verily. I didn't even know what I didn't know, until I started reading RH.

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Howard Huges's avatar

Same

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Rudy Havenstein's avatar

I'm watching that closely (again)

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