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| S&P futures | 3,991 | 13.25 |
| Oil (WTI) | 112.14 | 2.59 |
| 10 year government bond yield | 2.76% | |
| 30 year fixed rate mortgage | 5.33% |
Stocks are flattish this morning on no real news. Bonds and MBS are down small.
GDP growth in the first quarter was revised downward from -1.4% to -1.5%, according to BEA. The PCE price index, which measures inflation was steady at 7%. Ex-food and energy, the PCE index was revised downward from 5.2% to 5.1%. Inventory and exports were the reason for the decline in GDP growth.
The FOMC minutes didn’t have much effect on the markets yesterday. Inflation remains too strong for the Fed’s liking and the Street is looking for 50 basis point hikes in June and July.
They discussed the negative GDP print in Q1 specifically.
Participants commented that after its rapid growth in the last quarter of 2021, real GDP had declined in the first quarter of this year, with net exports and inventory investment making large negative contributions to growth. They noted, however, that these volatile components tended to contain little signal about subsequent growth and that household spending and business fixed investment had remained strong in the first quarter. These advances and the further tightening of labor market conditions were judged consistent with significant underlying momentum in the domestic economy.
The Fed thinks that GDP growth remains solid, and that fiscal policy will act as a natural drag on the economy while the supply chain issues will get worked out. In addition, a few members thought there were signs that the pandemic-related restrictions on labor supply were easing. I take this to mean that many workers who were staying out of the labor market due to health fears are now re-entering the labor force. Of course inflation could have something to do with that as well.
The characterization of GDP growth as “solid” is somewhat contradicted by the latest GDP Now estimate out of the Atlanta Fed, which just revised its estimate downward from 2.4% to 1.8%. I suspect the putrid new home sales number had something to do with it.
Speaking of new home sales, pending home sales fell 3.9% in April, according to NAR. Year-over-year pending home sales are down 9.1%.”Pending contracts are telling, as they better reflect the timelier impact from higher mortgage rates than do closings,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. “The latest contract signings mark six consecutive months of declines and are at the slowest pace in nearly a decade. The escalating mortgage rates have bumped up the cost of purchasing a home by more than 25% from a year ago, while steeper home prices are adding another 15% to that figure. The vast majority of homeowners are enjoying huge wealth gains and are not under financial stress with their home as a result of having locked into historically low interest rates, or because they are not carrying a mortgage,” Yun explained. “However – in this present market – potential homebuyers are challenged and thus may attempt to mitigate the rising cost of ownership by opting for a 5-year adjustable-rate mortgage or by widening their geographic search area to more affordable regions.”
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The Uvalde cops were preventing the parents from trying to stop the shooter.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/05/26/witnesses-police-refused-to-enter-school-as-uvalde-shooter-rampaged-subdued-parents-begging-them-to-act-n570190
Let that sink in.
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That’s what the cops are trained to do these days. Stop citizens from defending themselves, their families, or their property.
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and ensure people are masking up
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In one of the videos a cop has his taser in his hand to use against the parents.
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In the same video they’re restraining someone else. It just keeps getting more awful.
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Better coverage of the cop malfeasance here.
https://nypost.com/2022/05/26/videos-show-parents-begging-cops-to-stop-texas-school-shooting/
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Keeps getting worse and worse.
“appears it was unlocked”
No “school resource officer” confronted shooter, the door he went through was unlocked, was left inside for 30-40 minutes without being confronted and the police, during this time, were outside restraining/preventing parents from going in.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/05/26/texas-dps-now-says-uvalde-shooter-entered-school-unobstructed-n2607855
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Wait for the SWAT team mentality?
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At a minimum the cops standing around could have given their weapons to the parents willing to go in.
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There was a mini blow up on Twitter yesterday when it turned out that ICE was part of the response. The usual suspects condemned it under the premise that they were there to round up the parents who were illegal immigrants.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93beaa/ice-agents-probably-wont-arrest-people-affected-by-the-texas-shooting
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I was expecting the headlines for the shooting to read ICE agents execute Latino youth.
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You mean Latinx transwoman, no?
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That one time where TrollMcWingnut and the Washington Post Editorial page agreed on something:
“Families deserve answers about how police responded to Texas school shooting
By the Editorial Board
May 26, 2022 at 5:06 p.m. EDT”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/26/police-response-uvalde-texas-shooting-families-deserve-answers/
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Lol!
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Interesting takes on the recent shootings:
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/americas-men-need-help-and-leadership?s=r
https://sashastone.substack.com/p/hello-from-the-road?s=r
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Both my wife and I told our son to not internalize any of this woke crap being fed by culture and education. I think his generation recognizes most of it is utter bullshit.
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Good read:
“What Princeton Did to My Husband
My alma mater is not the school I once loved. But Joshua Katz is exactly the man I knew I married.
Solveig Lucia Gold”
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-princeton-did-to-my-husband?s=r
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I think this cancel culture nonsense is nothing more than affirmative action in drag. If you can’t hire enough non-white men, then get rid of as many as you can.
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No, it’s more Marxist than affirmative action, which was more about putting a facade on the existing system.
The quote at the end is key:
“That is the rhetoric of people like Padilla Peralta, who, during the same freshman orientation session in which Joshua was singled out as a racist, told the freshman class that they should “tear down this place and make it a better one.””
They actually believe they can make it better. They are wrong. They can only tear it down.
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They believe man can be perfected and they are obligated to do whatever it takes to do so.
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Interesting that the article by Susan Patton that she mentions in paragraph 3 was the subject of an extended conversation right here many years ago…
https://all-things-in-moderation.com/2014/03/12/morning-report-preparing-for-life-after-fan-and-fred-31214/#comment-56309
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I don’t want anything to get in the way of broads providing the free milk.
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That was a very good read. I think we’re only scraping the iceberg of both stories of the utter illiberalism and criminally negligent “education” being provided by much of Ivy League academia—and of people to focus on those stories. Bari Weiss is one but there are going to be many more both to give voice to the persecuted and to deconstruct modern academia in terms of quality of education and the monetary value of the education, and what they spend their money on, etc. It wouldn’t take much for someone to create an alumni group focused on keeping alumni aware of just what their alma mater is really doing, and making it clear that many of those places aren’t the schools they graduated from.
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