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| S&P futures | 3,809 | -90.25 |
| Oil (WTI) | 118.91 | -1.84 |
| 10 year government bond yield | 3.27% | |
| 30 year fixed rate mortgage | 5.66% |
Stocks are lower this morning as rates continue to rise in the aftermath of Friday’s CPI report. Bonds and MBS are down. With the stock market hovering just above 3,800 we are officially in a bear market. Having fun yet?
The Fed is almost assuredly going to increase the Fed Funds rate by 50 basis points at its meeting this week. Traders will parse the language for the degree of hawkishness, but I think markets are pretty much factoring in 50 basis points in June, July, and September. That is a lot of tightening in the face of a weak economy. The Atlanta Fed’s GDP Now index has Q2 growth coming in at 0.9%. Don’t forget Q1 was highly negative, so if Q2 ends up being negative, we will officially be in a recession.
Since the unemployment rate is so low, an official recession might not make a difference to the Fed. Their dual mandate is for unemployment and inflation, not growth and inflation.
In other data this week, we will get the producer price index tomorrow, housing starts, retail sales and leading indicators. So a pretty busy week, but the Fed will dominate the data.
About the only good news these days is that house prices are rising and making homeowners wealthier. In the first quarter, home equity rose 32.2%, according to Corelogic. Patrick Dodd, CEO of Corelogic said: “Price growth is the key ingredient for the creation of home equity wealth. Home prices were up by 20% in March compared to one year earlier in CoreLogic’s national Home Price Index. This has led to the largest one-year gain in average home equity wealth for owners and is expected to spur a record amount of home-improvement spending this year.” Over the past year, the average home gained $64k in home equity.
Got credit card debt? Debt-consolidation cash-out refis are a good way to lower your rate.
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All Things in Moderation 
Pretty good piece:
“Why Urban Life Suddenly Got Way More Expensive
It’s not just inflation. It’s the end of the Millennial Consumer Subsidy.
By Derek Thompson”
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/06/uber-ride-share-prices-high-inflation/661250/
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On a completely different note, it appears that yet another SCOTUS opinion day will pass without the abortion decision being released.
I figure either they are waiting to release it on the last possible day so the Justices can get out of town before the protests/violence begin in earnest, or Roberts is holding off in the hopes that the on-going threats and political pressure will convince one of the majority to switch sides.
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That these people have doubts that Biden’s DoJ wont prosecute and a DC jury wont convict makes me laugh.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/13/2103888/-Despite-overwhelming-evidence-of-guilt-the-DOJ-has-a-tough-decision-around-prosecuting-Trump
Are they just telling each other ghost stories?
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This is pretty funny.
https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-good-white-man-roster?s=r
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More lunacy out of Washington State:
The Washington State Supreme Court has issued a sweeping Opinion (pdf.) announcing that whether a person is deemed “seized” by the police must take into account race if the person is “Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC).”
…In Washington State, objectivity is very subjective based on assumptions and presumptions that anyone who is non-white necessarily will be intimidated by an encounter with the police such that even asking for identification would be deemed a seizure. A white person in the same circumstance and the same facts would not be deemed seized, which has important implications for treatment in the criminal justice system. Same facts, different results based on race.
This seems to me to be an obvious and transparent violation of the equal protection clause.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/06/washington-state-supreme-court-imposes-different-standards-on-police-seizures-for-bipoc-and-whites/
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I’m guessing it wouldn’t withstand a constitutional challenge.
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The post and comments boggle the mind.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/6/12/2103702/-Don-t-be-fooled-COVID-is-still-with-us-dangerous-as-ever#comment_83791538
They revel in their fear.
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They want everything to be apocalyptic and an existential crisis. It provides meaning to their life where otherwise there is none.
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