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Shapiro – September 2023 Market Insights

WASTED AWAY IN ECONOMICVILLE Interest rates are the highest they have been in over 20 years. The labor market remains strong and tight. Consumer spending in July, excluding gas and autos, rose by 1%, twice the consensus forecast. Adjusted wages topped inflation for the first time in two years. Consumer confidence is strong. Car sales are robust. There is still a shortage of new homes with strong demand. The Atlanta Fed GDPNow tracker forecasts 5.6% growth for Q3 GDP. The stock markets are near record highs since falling 22% last year. Oh, and inflation is dropping.
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Bruce's Commentaries- Market Insights, Bruce's Commentaries- Market Insights / 09.12

Shapiro – Agosto de 2023

EL PROBLEMA IMPLACABLE DE CHINA: EL TRASTORNO DE ESTRÉS DEPUES DE COVID Tres años de encierros obligaron a los chinos a ser literalmente prisioneros en sus propios hogares. El único momento en que podían salir era con un permiso especial y había que hacerse pruebas cada dos o tres días. La mayoría de las personas estaban sin trabajo. Si compraba una casa nueva, tenía que pagarla por adelantado y luego no podía ser construida ni entregada debido a la quiebra de la industria de la construcción. Los precios de la vivienda siguen cayendo. Zero COVID terminó en el mes de Diciembre de 2022 sin mucha planificación y muchas personas contrajeron COVID y murieron. Este es el trastorno de estrés post COVID (PCSD). Este miedo y ansiedad no cambiarán durante años.
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Uncategorized / 08.11

Shapiro – August 2023 Market Insights

CHINA’S RELENTLESS ISSUE: POST COVID STRESS DISORDER Three years of lockdowns forced the Chinese to be literally prisoners in their own homes. The only time they could go out was with special permission and you had to be tested every few days. Most people were out of work. If you bought a new home, you had to prepay for it and then it couldn’t be built and delivered because of the bankrupt building industry. Housing prices keep dropping. Zero Covid ended in December 2022 without much planning and many people got Covid and died. This is Post Covid Stress Disorder. This anxiety and fear will not change for years.
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Uncategorized / 08.11

Shapiro – de Julio de 2023 Market Insights

¿DÓNDE ESTÁ ESA RECESIÓN? Muchos economistas han estado pronosticando una recesión durante meses. La Fed comenzó a subir las tasas de interés hace 16 meses. Las tasas de interés ahora han pasado de 0 a 5 % a 5.25 %. Durante este tiempo, la inflación, medida por el IPC, ha caído de cerca del 10 % y ahora es del 3 %, un mínimo en dos años. Los economistas creen que hay un lapso de tiempo para que las tasas de interés más altas comiencen a desacelerar la economía. Ese momento es ahora, y la economía se mantiene fuerte. Los pronósticos de recesión me recuerdan a un economista, Eliot Janeway, quien falleció en 1991 y era conocido por sus numerosos pronósticos pesimistas. Se dijo que pronosticó correctamente 11 de las últimas 3 recesiones..
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Uncategorized / 07.14

Shapiro – July 2023 Market Insights

SO WHERE IS THAT RECESSION? Many economists have been forecasting a recession for months. The Fed started raising interest rates 16 months ago. Interest rates have now gone from 0 to 5% to 5.25%. During this time, inflation, as measured by CPI, has fallen from near 10% and is now 3%, a two year low. Economists believe there is a lag time for the higher interest rates to start slowing the economy. That time is now, and the economy remains strong. The recession forecasts remind me of an economist, Eliot Janeway, who passed away in 1991, and was known for his numerous gloomy forecasts. He was said to have correctly forecasted 11 of the last 3 recessions.
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Uncategorized / 07.13

Shapiro – Junio de 2023

LO QUE REALMENTE CAUSO LA INFLACION Ben Bernanke, expresidente de la Reserva Federal, y Olivier Blanchard, execonomista jefe del Fondo Monetario Internacional, anunciaron su estudio de dos años sobre la inflación. Bernanke está ahora en la Institución Brookings y Blanchard está en el Instituto Peterson de Economía Internacional. Los dos se encuentran entre los economistas académicos más citados del mundo. Blanchard fue uno de los pocos economistas, junto con Larry Summers, que fueron los primeros en pronosticar la inflación cuando comenzaron los programas de estímulo.
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Uncategorized / 06.16

Shapiro – June 2023 Market Insights

WHAT REALLY CAUSED INFLATION Ben Bernanke, former chair of the Federal Reserve, and Olivier Blanchard, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund announced their 2-year study on inflation. Bernanke is now at the Brookings Institution and Blanchard is at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The two are among the world’s most cited academic economists. Blanchard was one of the few economists, along with Larry Summers who were the first to forecast inflation when the stimulus programs began
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Uncategorized / 05.19

Shapiro – 12 de Mayo de 2023

Mirar hacia adelante. ¡Cuidado! “Tengo un mensaje para quienes observan o están involucrados en el enfrentamiento sobre el aumento del límite de la deuda federal de Los Estados Unidos: tengan mucho miedo. En este punto del ciclo financiero y económico, no lograr llegar a un acuerdo sería particularmente grave”, dijo Bill Dudley, expresidente del Banco de la Reserva Federal de Nueva York de 2009 a 2018.
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Bruce's Commentaries- Market Insights / 05.12

Shapiro – May 2023 Market Insights

Lookout Ahead. Look Out! “I have one message for those observing or involved in the standoff over raising the US federal debt limit: Be very afraid. At this point in the financial and economic cycle, failing to reach a deal would be particularly dire,” Bill Dudley, former Federal Reserve Bank of New York President from 2009-2018.
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