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☆ Ron Insana: Bitcoin could be the mother of all manias as it soars toward $100,000
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Ron Insana | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

As bitcoin prepares to vault to $100,000, I can't help but wonder if cryptocurrency – not artificial intelligence – is the mother of all financial market manias. BTC.CM= YTD mountain Bitcoin in 2024 The first bitcoin, minted in 2009 , changed hands at about one-tenth of one cent. With bitcoin at nearly $100,000 on Thursday, the first buyers of the cryptocurrency would, no doubt, be worth scores of billions of dollars. The three defining features of money are: A medium of exchange A unit of account A store of value Bitcoin – or any cryptocurrency – is not widely used for transactions. The real question in my mind remains, does the world need bitcoin, or does it just want the flagship crypto?

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☆ Customers noticed Whole Foods skimped out on its Berry Chantilly Cake. It quickly changed course
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —Fans of Whole Foods’ iconic Berry Chantilly Cake have been up in arms on social media over the past few weeks. Berry Chantilly fans say they were victims of skimpflation, a member of the shrinkflation and inflation family. Whole Foods customers were quick to catch on, and by Friday, the company announced it had reversed its changes. “Based on feedback from our customers, we will reintroduce single slices of the Berry Chantilly Cake that are the same as the classic our customers know and love,” a Whole Foods spokesperson told CNN on Friday. The cake slices will be back to their previous version by next week, the company said.

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☆ High Credit Card Interest Rates Are Loading Americans With Debt
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

The average credit-card interest rate is now just over 21%, up from about 15% a decade ago. Additionally, as credit-card companies continue to charge high interest rates, more cardholders in debt become delinquent — and that could push the US economy closer to recession. Advertisement'The highest credit-card rates we've ever seen'Until 1978, most states had laws capping interest rates for credit cards and consumer products. Lowering the current high interest rates, and the profits that come with them, has become a priority across the aisle. Ted Rossman, a senior industry analyst at Bankrate, described the feedback loop of high prices and high interest rates as "a tough cycle to break."

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☆ The Fed’s long-awaited rate cut is colliding with presidential politics
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Kayla Tausche | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Vice President Kamala Harris called the rate cut “welcome news,” while former President Donald Trump suggested, without evidence, that the decision could be politically motivated. With less than 50 days until Election Day, another question has emerged: Will the rate cut matter to voters? In fact, they already have – mortgages are based on bond yields, which have fallen in recent weeks in anticipation of a rate cut. Harris responded to the rate cut by saying she’s focused on bringing down prices. This story has been updated with reaction to the Fed’s rate cut announcement.

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☆ The Fed keeps brushing off concerns about another Trump presidency. Its closed-door meetings show otherwise
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-15 | by ( Elisabeth Buchwald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —Federal Reserve officials won’t say how former President Donald Trump winning a second term could impact the economy. But transcripts of closed-door Fed meetings from Trump’s first term give some clues about top economists’ true feelings about Trump’s economic agenda. “We don’t want to be involved … in politics in any way,” Powell said after July’s monetary policy meeting. The transcripts of past meetings that are publicly available, the most recent being from the December 2018 monetary policy meeting, suggest that some Fed officials had legitimate concerns about Trump’s trade policy and its impact on the economy. ‘Ill-conceived US government policies’At later meetings, as the Trump administration began to set the stage for a potential trade war with China, Fed officials started to sound more concerned.

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☆ Americans have more than $32 trillion in home equity — a record high. Here's what to know before you tap it
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Tappable equity is the amount most lenders will allow you to take out while still leaving 20% in the home as a cushion. How to tap your home for cashAlternatively, a home equity loan is a type of second mortgage, which allows borrowers to pull cash while using the house as collateral. However, the current average home equity loan interest rate is 8.52%, according to Bankrate, notably higher than a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. watch nowOtherwise, a home equity line of credit, also known as a HELOC, lets you borrow money against a portion of your home's equity. The average HELOC interest rate is just shy of 10%, according to Bankrate.

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☆ The Trump policy that freaks out economists the most
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

New York CNN —Former President Donald Trump wants to spend trillions of dollars on tax cuts. “It’s enormously protectionist and terrible economic policy,” said Holtz-Eakin, who served as an economic adviser to former President George H.W. The cost of the Trump tax cutsTrump has called for extending his signature 2017 tax cuts, which expire next year if no action is taken by Congress. Trump has argued that extending the tax cuts will boost the economy, create jobs and help families. The Trump campaign has not detailed significant spending cuts or tax hikes to offset these tax cuts.

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☆ Surging US unemployment has triggered a recession indicator with a perfect track record
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Matthew Fox | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA closely watched recession indicator flashed on Friday after a weak July jobs report showed an unexpected surge in the unemployment rate. The Sahm Rule, created by former Federal Reserve official Claudia Sahm, triggers when the unemployment rate's three-month moving average moves 50 basis points above its 12-month low. That rule was triggered on Friday, with the moving average rising 53 basis points above that one-year trough, according to the real-time Sahm Rule Recession Indicator from the St. Louis Federal Reserve. The only misfire for the rule was in 1959, but even then, a recession started just five months after the Sahm Rule flashed. But Sahm herself wrote in a Substack post last week that "the rise in the unemployment rate is not as ominous as it would normally seem."

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☆ The number of Gen Zers who aren't in work or school is rising. Here's how to tackle it, according to experts.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewA growing number of young people globally are struggling to stay in work or school. "They are searching for places where they can be true to themselves, where mental health is not looked down upon but helped, and where working sometimes from home or a coffee shop is possible." AdvertisementRather than jump on the first opportunities that come along, voluntary NEETs are holding back for the right job. Better guidanceOther career experts agreed that development should start early so students understand the variety of different paths available to them. Experts remain divided over how to address the rise in NEETs, in part because no solution would work for all.

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☆ Gen Z and millennial NEETS are on the rise — many say they'd rather do nothing than be unhappy at work
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Many NEETs are listless, struggling through tough economic times, living off loans, and losing hope of retirement or buying a house. Voluntarily idleSome Gen Zers struggle to find a job or stay in work or education, earning the nickname "disconnected youth." But some Zoomer and millennial NEETs are happy to wait out unemployment for the right career path. Advertisement"It reveals how much shame in guilt is built into our every day lives," Pitcher told BI of being a NEET. This gives him faith that things will be OK, he told BI.

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☆ Fitch's negative outlook for China is more bad news for its stalling economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFitch Ratings has cut its outlook for China, adding to the gloom surrounding the world's second-largest economy. It cut its outlook from "stable" to "negative," but maintained its overall rating at "A+." The move comes after Moody's Investor Services, another major credit-rating agency, also downgraded its outlook for China to "negative" in December. As a result Fitch expects economic growth to fall to 4.5% for 2024. The ratings agency said policymakers will probably have no choice but to borrow to address its economic woes.

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☆ Gen Zers, take note: Some boomers have found a simple path to happiness
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-06 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Loneliness and happiness are often related, and people of all ages have been battling those issues for years. The World Happiness Report, released in March, delved further into how people of all generations are experiencing loneliness and happiness globally. And when it comes to loneliness in the US, the younger generations were hit the hardest. This is despite the fact that actual social connections are much more frequent for Millennials than Boomers, and about as frequent as for Generation X." AdvertisementThe focus on meaningful connections might just be what splits older generations from younger generations when it comes to happiness.

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In particular, the researchers looked at a group dubbed "disconnected youth," who aren't working and are also not in school. As of 2022, disconnected youth comprised 13% of this age group; that share has been rising overall since 1998, according to calculations from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. AdvertisementYounger Americans are facing stagnant incomesThe Dallas Fed found that, even after a post-pandemic dip, the rate of disconnected youth has increased since the end of the 1990s. AdvertisementAnd the number of young adults with no income has been on the rise; in 1990, around one in five young adults said they had no wage or salary income. Are you or were you a "disconnected youth," or supporting one?

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☆ Bank credit is shrinking for the first time since the Great Recession – and that's a red flag for the economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The last one was during the Great Recession, brought about by the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. The extended slump in bank lending comes as many Wall Street experts continue to project a pessimistic outlook for the economy, despite the surprisingly upbeat trend seen in 2023. Recession warningsThe US economy defied forecasters' gloomy predictions by dodging a recession last year, with strong consumer spending helping to prop up growth. AdvertisementBut not everyone on Wall Street is so cheerful. It might be a mild recession or a heavy recession," he added, noting it's possible that the downturn bites in 2024.

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[1/3] An employee hiring sign is seen in a window of a business in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., April 7, 2023. So far, he said at a Boston Fed labor market conference earlier this month, measures like the employment-to-population ratio largely have not behaved differently for key racial groups, for women versus men, or among those with different education levels. Research has since tended to suggest that there may be untapped pools of labor that only become available when the job market is tight - an argument for keeping monetary policy looser than not. The labor market recovery so far has been "remarkably equitable," she said. Pandemic-era programs threw a safety net under many families, and the tight job market that has since developed helped many get a foothold, Rouse said.

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☆ White House needs to talk turkey about inflation
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Lauren Silva Laughlin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW YORK, Nov 22 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Hey, White House. The release noted that lower inflation was among the things that Americans should be thankful for. Gasoline prices, for example, are down a quarter from their high in June 2022, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The price of the average Thanksgiving meal has dropped from last year, too. Meantime food prices in the average U.S. city are up a fifth since December 2020, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve.

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Consumers continued to sour on the economic outlook in November while also growing more pessimistic about future inflation, according to the first estimate from the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey. The index of consumer sentiment fell 5% to a reading of 60.4, down from 63.8 in October. “Ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine weighed on many consumers as well.”“Overall, lower-income consumers and younger consumers exhibited the strongest declines in sentiment,” Hsu added. Various surveys measuring the minds of consumers have found them to be worried about inflation and the economy in general. “Consumer sentiment continues to trend downward at a moderate pace as consumers attempt to juggle inflation and higher interest rates,” said Damian McIntyre, Portfolio manager and head of multi asset solutions at Federated Hermes.

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Many people subsequently turned to remote work, and the workforce recovered but only to be plunged into three years of an incredibly tight labor market. Today, the unemployment rate is at 3.9% following an increase in October from the prior’s month’s 3.8% level, and by most measures the labor market is considered very strong. “It does seem like the labor market is getting a little more balanced,” says Gene Tannuzzo, global head of fixed income at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. The overwhelmingly takeaway is that the labor market has defied most predictions and shown a level of resiliency and adaptability that has surprised many observers. This was the “excess retirements” who were causing the labor market to be exceptionally tight.

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☆ Fed's Waller: Q3 GDP a "blowout" number that warrants watching
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Third quarter U.S. economic growth at an annualized 4.9% rate was a "blowout" performance that warrants watching as the U.S. Federal Reserve considers its next policy moves, Fed Gov. Christopher Waller said on Tuesday. "This was an outstanding quarter...this big blowout number," Waller told an economic data seminar at the St. Louis Federal Reserve. While his remarks did not include a policy recommendation, he noted that in looking at the components of U.S. output, "everything was booming. So this is something we are keeping a very close eye on when we think about policy going forward."

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☆ S&P 500 returns tend to be measly in the 12 months leading up to a presidential election
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Hakyung Kim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The 2024 U.S. presidential election is now only 12 months away, with the primary season set to begin Jan. 15. While every election year brings with it a unique mix of political and macroeconomic conditions, Goldman Sachs' portfolio strategy research team says equity returns tend to be weaker than average in the 12 months leading up to a presidential election. Since 1984, the average S & P 500 return on election years is only 4%, according to Goldman. When looking more broadly from 1932, the S & P 500 has averaged returns of 7% during an election year and 9% outside of election years. "Post-election returns have typically been stronger when the election resulted in a divided government than a unified government, especially in the case of a wave election," Kostin said.

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☆ Bankman-Fried circus will be a singular clown show
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Anita Ramaswamy | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

NEW YORK, Oct 4 (Reuters Breakingviews) - All eyes are on Sam Bankman-Fried as the cryptocurrency founder’s criminal trial gets underway this week. The high-profile case bears similarities to past scandals such as Enron and Countrywide Financial, when regulation followed investigations. Lawmakers hauled Wall Street analysts up to Capitol Hill to grill them about their “buy” ratings. Importantly, legislators passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, forcing banks to hold more capital, among other stipulations. It also is less prevalent – less than 20% of Americans have invested in crypto, according to the Pew Research Center.

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☆ Morning Bid: Spiky quarter ends in uneasy market calm
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., September 28, 2023. At 4.53% on Friday, the 10-year benchmark was some 15 basis points off Thursday's peak and two-year yields fell back to their lowest since Sept. 18. Some optimism from Beijing about a possible year-end summit between President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden helped. Key developments that should provide more direction to U.S. markets later on Friday:* US August PCE inflation gauge, personal income and spending. They do not reflect the views of Reuters News, which, under the Trust Principles, is committed to integrity, independence, and freedom from bias.

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☆ Americans are feeling worse about the economy, with confidence diving to a 4-month low
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( George Glover | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

US consumer confidence fell to a four-month low in September, the Conference Board said Tuesday. That's a sign Americans are feeling worse about the economy. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The US consumer confidence index, which measures how people are feeling about their own financial health and spending power, slipped to a four-month low in September, the Conference Board said Tuesday. Confidence slipped across every age group, according to the Conference Board, with the drop most pronounced among Americans earning upwards of $50,000 a year.

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☆ European markets open higher after seven-day losing streak
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Hannah Ward-Glenton | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

The likelihood that inflation numbers are going to remain stubbornly high for a while could mean more interest rate increases, former St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said Thursday. In a CNBC interview, the the current dean of the Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. School of Business at Purdue University raised the prospect of more policy tightening as core inflation is stuck around 4%. "That's raising the risk that the Fed will have to follow through on its promise rate increase sometime in the next couple of meetings, and there's some risk that they'd have to go a little bit higher even from there," Bullard told CNBC's Steve Liesman. Inflation numbers "have got to come down into the 3% range, and eventually the 2% range, and if that is not happening and they hang up too high, the Fed may have to do more," he said.

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☆ 'House-rich' Americans are sitting on nearly $30 trillion in home equity. Here's how to tap it
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Thanks to skyrocketing housing prices, homeowners are now sitting on nearly $30 trillion in home equity, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve — just shy of the 2022 peak. How to tap your home for cashFactor in the terms, rates and risksWhen it comes to borrowing against your home, the terms can vary greatly, according to a LendingTree report that analyzed more than 580,000 home equity loan offers across the country. The average home equity loan amount offered to homeowners is $104,102, LendingTree found. Access to HELOCs has improved, although the most preferable terms still go to borrowers with higher credit scores and lower debt-to-income ratios. "Though a home equity loan can be a good way to pay for big expenses, like major renovations, or to consolidate high-interest debt, getting one isn't without drawback," added Jacob Channel, LendingTree's senior economist.

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