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Heads or Tails: Another Rate Hike For September?

29 Aug 2022 2 minute read 4 comments SweptOverNiagara

As the Federal Reserve Bank gets ready for its next FOMC meeting in September, most bets are in for at least a half percent increase (50 bps) but more likely, a three-quarter percent increase. There are those who are saying to brace for an unexpected...

Mortgage Rates Drop

12 Jul 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Seven-NATE-Nine

It’s the little things in life… That make a BIG difference This is true in so many aspects of life!  Do you think that one little piece of candy or small slice of cake won’t make a difference? Maybe not today, but add that up on a daily basis and wa...

Heard The News About Interest Rates Going . . . . . . . . . Down?

1 Jul 2022 1 minute read 6 comments davidgyoung

This is not a declaration that inflationary pressures are gone or that rates across the universe are heading lower.  This is however a look back into some of our recent discussions such as the following: BOJ's YCC Of Course Makes JPY Sacrificial Lamb...

Current Inflation and Its Resemblance to the 70s

22 Jun 2022 2 minute read 1 comment Crypto Monkey

Inflation is just the increase in general prices. This is the increase in the cost of living. A small amount of inflation, of increase in prices, of around 2% is in general beneficial as it incentivizes people to “move” their money, to invest it. Thi...

Quantitative Tightening Has Arrived. What it is and What to Expect

16 Jun 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Crypto Monkey

First of all, what is quantitative tightening? Quantitative tightening is just the opposite than quantitative easing, this is, a way to reduce the money supply in the economy. In the case of the United States, this translates into the Fed not reinves...

What Does the Fed Interest Rate Hike Mean for Bitcoin?

7 May 2022 4 minute read 2 comments MintDice.com

When you choose to invest your money in various markets, there is always a risk of losses and gains, which is expected. There are times, however, that the losses you can suffer from have nothing to do with how you invest but with inflation. The Fed i...

Can Bitcoin Withstand Upcoming Fed Rate Hikes?

30 Mar 2022 4 minute read 3 comments Mike Ermolaev

A forty-year high US inflation rate, skyrocketing energy prices, and indications that the US economic recovery may be damaged by the effect from sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine allpoint to much-feared stagflation – a precursor t...

Property Bubble In Germany?

28 Feb 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Steve Hodl

Interest rates are beginning to rise in Germany, is this a sign of a change in direction or momentary blip?If we look back at the interest rate developments for the last 5 years, we can see that in the last month there has been a sharp rise in theint...

The Fed, Interest Rates and Crypto

27 Jan 2022 3 minute read 1 comment CryptoMasterMiner

Cryptocurrency markets and stock markets around the world eagerly awaited todays announcement from the Federal Reserve (Fed) regarding interest rates.  The hawkish stance from the Fed and signals of rate hikes (3-4) in 2022 have rattled the global ma...

READ THIS BEFORE YOU SELL!!!

26 Jan 2022 2 minute read 10 comments CryptoDiamondHands

  Market has been down so much, everyone has been panicking whether to sell their losses or cut their profits. And I believe if you’ve read this, you’ve either paper hands or still hodling through. So what should you do? Here’s what I think. Just Do...