Commentary The strategy of "buying the dip" went on for months, with unrelenting hope that this was all surely temporary. The economy was opening; Congress was spending. The Federal Reserve surely wouldn't crash the markets before the November election. All will be well. No reason to panic.

Runaway house price inflation continues to characterize the U.S. market. House prices across the country rose 15.8% on average in October 2021 from the year before. U.S. house prices are far over their 2006 Bubble peak, and remain over the Bubble peak even after adjustment for consumer price inflation.

One of the most poignant (and painful to some) lessons of the past decade - especially to contrarian, bearish investors such as Odey and Horseman - is that the Fed can keep print money far longer than any short can remain solvent.

In March, Yahoo was the first to report about the merging of the Federal Reserve and The US Treasury. "The Treasury, not the Fed, is buying all these securities and backstopping of loans; the Fed is acting as banker and providing financing. The Fed hired BlackRock Inc.

In a letter to investors released on July 29, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead noted that the United States has printed a shocking amount of money to combat the pandemic-induced financial crisis. "The United States printed more money in June than in the first two centuries after its founding," Morehead wrote.

On the heels of President Donald Trump's annual State of the Union speech, where the president declared the US employment numbers, the stock market and the e...

By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com (Early Sunday Release) Macroeconomic analyst Rob Kirby can sum up the massive Fed money printing it is doing each and every day. Kirby explains, "We are on a vertical curve where money has to be added to the system. . . .

Ever since the secured overnight repo rate (SOFR) spiked to 10% in September, there have been dire warnings that these exceptional movements show the financial system is fundamentally broken. The story goes that the post-crisis financial system is so dysfunctional that it is unable to operate without continual injections of money from central banks.