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December 3, 2022 By Asi de Silva

Fed’s 2% Inflation Target

It is clear to us that inflation has peaked, but getting inflation down to the Fed’s 2% target will be a challenge. It’ll be a challenge for our overly indebted world to sustain 5-6% interest rates for a prolonged period, which is the Fed’s guidance. However, there’s plenty of financial liquidity sitting on the sidelines […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: Birth-death model, CPI, CPI components, inflation, Jobs report, JOLTS, NFIB, sticky price inflation, unemployment, yield curve

May 28, 2022 By Asi de Silva

First Signs of Slowing Real Estate

We saw the first signs of slowing real estate activity this week. April new home sales dropped 16.6% MoM and home builder surveys show an uptick in cancellations. This slowdown is needed to cool the economy and ease inflation. Rents (aka shelter) is over 40% of the core-CPI index, and we need easing house prices […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: CPI, housing starts, insider trading, new home sales, NFTs, OER, QT, shelter inflation, US housing

March 12, 2022 By Asi de Silva

Crypto Executive Order Embraces The Industry

President Biden’s crypto executive order embraces the industry and illustrates how digital assets have become mainstream. It’s surreal to hear “the rise in digital assets creates an opportunity to reinforce American leadership in the global financial system and at the technological frontier…” coming from the White House. The various government departments and agencies are instructed […]

Filed Under: The Dispatch Tagged With: Andre Cronje, CPI, crypto executive order, crypto regulation, EU crypto ban, government surveillance, inflation, OER, PoW ban, rent inflation distortion, rents, shelter inflation

February 19, 2022 By Asi de Silva

Crypto Yield Has Been Muzzled

Crypto Yield has been muzzled as BlockFi pulls offering in the US after settling with the SEC and states. This follows the SEC litigation threat against Coinbase’s proposed Lend product. You bet other companies offering crypto yield will be in the SEC’s crosshairs. Crypto yield offerings are both innovative and complicated. The products have provided […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: Blockfi, CPI, crypto hack, crypto yield, food inflation, inflation, inflation expectations, PPI, SEC, SEC crypto compliance, Super Bowl

February 12, 2022 By Asi de Silva

KPMG’s Bitcoin and Ethereum Purchase

KPMG’s bitcoin and ether purchase is the lead story, because The Dispatch holds itself out as a crypto-leaning weekly! The high January inflation reading and rising risk of a Fed policy errors are of equal importance. KPMG Canada did not announce the size of its purchase, but an accounting/advisory firm supporting crypto is still a […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: bitcoin adoption, Bitfinex, Bitfinex hack, Chainalysis, CPI, CPI components, crypto adoption, crypto arrest, crypto hack, crypto marketing, DoJ arrest, Fed QE, gold, inflation, KPMG, NFT collateral, NFT loans, NFTs, policy error, real yield, yield curve

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