Well folks, in my opinion, the fed is either panicking or lying to us about the coming recession and the stock market realizes it that's why stocks are falling as the fed meeting once again ends and once again, bond yields are rising with the 10-year now rising up To 3.45 now, maybe that's just because uh you know last year the fed spent the entire year telling us that inflation was transitory, while the delta variant was destroying our supply chains and we printed even more money, but don't worry now any kind of recession is sure To be transitory because, after all, the consumer and markets are very strong, consider what the fed told us yesterday the fed told us yesterday the consumer is strong and the economy is doing very well. You look at this chart. It's a chart of consumer sentiment in the united states being at 22 year lows. It is literally at the lowest point since the dot-com bubble didn't even bother people and it is not even as low as the 2008 recession.

That's right: we are the lowest point in the last 22 years on the chart. People are worried and they're worried because they realize that not only do we have the hottest inflation that we've had in four decades, but they realized the fed might not know what the hell they're doing, and so, as you can see, with inflation, we had a peak In march, followed by a decline in april, which was good, but unfortunately, another higher peak in may in terms of inflation, and so while jerome powell talks about strength, we're kind of scratching our heads going wait a minute. Why, then, is inflation going the wrong way, and why is consumer sentiment so low and on top of that, you've got the u.s savings rate as a percentage of personal disposable income at just 4.4 percent, yet again, another metric that is at a low since 2008, where It was actually slightly lower, but also quite freaking low, and so it does make you wonder: why does the fed jerome powell and their bodies? Why do they all think that gdp is going to end at 1.7 at the end of the year? It doesn't quite make sense: even the atlanta fed's gdp, now tracking indicator doesn't seem to agree with the federal reserve themselves. The gdp now indicator went negative in q1 and guess what we ended up.

Having for gdp in q1, a negative read: guess what the gdp now data hit again today negative, we are once again negative. You can see it here on the chart now, according to this chart on screen. If the gdp now chart is correct, we will fall into a recession, because, after all, two quarters of negative gdp is a recession and see the fed is telling us. Oh, but don't worry, don't worry, we have no plans of inducing a recession.

In fact, they want to be very clear that we have no plan to induce a recession not trying to reduce induce a recession. Now, let's be clear about that, we're trying to achieve uh, two percent inflation consistent with a strong labor market. That's that's! What we're trying to do well, the stock market, doesn't believe that the fed can avoid this, and the stock market knows that if we compare all the way back to 1929 and all the crashes that have happened since 1929, in times of a recession, at least with How mature we are in terms of this crash now we have at least two more large lows to hit before we can actually say: we've hit bottom now. If we don't have a recession, maybe we're already at the bottom.

The markets aren't convinced that we're going to be able to avoid a recession, especially as we get sledge hammered by the federal reserve with a 75 basis. Point hike now consider this. The federal reserve told us in may that 75 basis points of an increase for the fomc of federal funds rate was off of the table and yesterday what did we get? 75 basis point now? We believe this was leaked to the media on monday, via, like a text or a phone call, because the fed was in their blackout period and they wanted to kind of prep the markets. And so then they prep the markets, markets priced in the 75 and sure enough.

Here's your 75., that was, after the cpi data, showed a meaningful and broad-based increase in inflation data, not a decrease, and this wasn't just certain categories. It was literally everything and we saw a bump in consumer expectations for inflation before the cpi read even came out, which means our next read for consumer expectations, for inflation will probably be even worse. Now, powell of course says this. Was him adapting well markets, aren't convinced that he's done adapting and even though yesterday jerome powell promised that well, i shouldn't say, promised but set the expectation that quote, we do not expect moves of this size to be common and that this is an unusually large hike.

The fed may have lost some credibility because again here we are looking at consumers and looking at the economy in a much substantially weaker position than what the fed seems to be telling us about, and so how can we believe that they're going to be credible to Say that 75 basis points are unusually large when it's entirely possible. In the july meeting we could end up with a 75 or even 100 basis, point hike and that'll just have to say. Well, we had to adapt folks there's no cheering with the fed until inflation. Actually starts coming down, but it gets worse because the federal reserve changed its tune a little bit on something else as well, but first folks, i want to give you some free options, flow and data.

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It had to do with the federal reserve kind of dropping their mention that they want to keep a strong labor market. The market's finally realizing, however, now - and i kind of mentioned that this was odd in my summary video yesterday market is finally realizing that jay pal is giving up on the dual mandate. Remember: maximum employment and stable prices. Well, we've got maximum employment.

In fact, we've got more than maximum employment, so jpr's kind of like yeah. That's not really our goal right now. Our goal right now is just inflation getting inflation down, so we don't really have a central bank that has a dual mandate right now we have a single mandate, federal reserve and that is to crush inflation, and the easiest way to crush inflation is by destroying demand And quite frankly, inducing a recession, even though japan tells us don't worry, that's not the goal. We know this is pretty much what it's going to take and that's unfortunate and that's what the market is pricing in now now, even if the fed tells us they want to see, you know drops in cpi for them to relax on their rate hike cycle.

Just a few months ago, the federal reserve was telling us, you know we're really just looking at the month-over-month data and core cpi as long as core cpi and the month over month, data comes down. Okay, maybe we could pause on our rate hikes well, jerome powell, once again flip-flopped on this and now he's telling us that no, we actually want headline inflation numbers to come down sure core and month over month, data matters, but we really want that core to come Down this is really i'm sorry, the headline number to come down. This is really bad, because if powell wants the headline number to come down, the only way to achieve that is by you know with monetary policy, since we can't really control commodities and control supply. The only way to achieve that is with straight-up demand destruction like folks.

If you are tired of high oil prices and gas prices, which i'm sure you are in high energy prices and the fed is as well - and we want to see that headline inflation go down which is heavily driven by energy prices and food prices, bonding prices, the Only way to drive that down is with straight up demand, destruction and the fed has to get people to drive less spend less money. Now california seems to have a different opinion. California seems to think we should give everybody 400, so they can go, buy more gas and continue having demand. So why drive less when you could just get free money from the state of california? Oh freaking, california, folks, like it's so idiotic, it's so moronic! I'm sorry! I just had to take a little tangent there to say that, but you know what the good news is.

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Fine, maybe they're right about that, but we'll have an earnings recession which is just as bad if anything, it's actually worse for stocks. Quite frankly, i'd rather have a not earnings, recession and a regular recession than have an earnings, recession and uh. Well, i'm confusing myself here. The point is, i don't want an earnings recession on stocks because then stocks plummet, you have a regular recession, but you still have earnings going up.

Eps is going up. Well, maybe that's not that bad, because eps is strongly correlated with long-term gains for stocks. The problem is, stocks are just getting reamed and so is the bond market. I mean look at, for example, peloton a stock, that's already down 90.

Now their bonds are selling for 70 cents on the dollar revlon just filed for bankruptcy and to add insult to injury, people are still raising prices contributing to inflation. Yes, that includes tesla, but folks, it's not just the united states. Germany just saw the biggest increase in five-year yields. Since 2011., the swiss national bank just dropped a bombshell surprise of a 50 basis, point hike.

Nobody was expecting that the ecb just had an emergency meeting where they're planning on announcing a new tool to announce, or you know something to basically help deal with surging bond yields because they realize the bond market's collapsing. They also had the following to say, which was not good. They said quote, inflation may end up being more entrenched than we think and sentiment is worsening. Great last thing we want is central banks telling us uh, maybe inflation's more entrenched than we thought it was on top of that, the bank of england is expected to hike rates.

Today the uh reserve bank of australia is signaling a period of substantial rate increases ahead, but folks don't worry, we won't be hearing a lot from the fed for a while right. We should be good. I mean we just had the fed meeting right wrong. The fed speak calendar is back so i've got it written down.

Let's see here, fed speak calendar powell talks at a conference tomorrow on saturday waller speaks on tuesday, mester and barkinspeak. On wednesday powell speaks in the senate and evans barkin and hardest being then, on thursday powell speaks before the house. Oh my gosh, i kind of like the blackout period better, because this is a disaster, but then again maybe ben bernanke was right. The federal reserve thinks that monetary policy is 98 talk and 2 action and folks.

This is all a complete disaster and the fed is, in my opinion, either just panicking entirely wrong about the strength of the markets or the economy or they're just straight up lying to us, because that summary of economic projections sure was a revision. But it wasn't a real revision.