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It's volumes, not dollars. How much product is actually being moved or not. What convenience stores are reporting isn't just more evidence for what the Census Bureau finally figure out in the wake of the massive retail sales downgrade. The energy shock is really dragging on Ameri ...  Show more

I have never seen anything like this before.With the stroke of the Census Bureau’s pen, more than 5% of retail sales…disappeared. Five.Not a single volatile category. Not some tiny seasonal adjustment. One-twentieth of the entire retail-sales universe—consumer spending on goods a ...  Show more

The Federal Reserve has spent more than a decade buying up government debt as part of a post-2008 program to support the economy, also known as quantitative easing. Now with inflation reaching record highs, those days are over, and a new era of quantitative tightening is emerg ...

The 10- and 30- year Treasury yields just hit their highest levels since 2007, sending prices down. And at the same time, equities moved in the same direction. That’s not supposed to happen. Today on the show, we try to figure out what is happening and why. Also we short our p ...

The Federal Reserve recently began shrinking its massive balance sheet, unwinding trillions of dollars worth of bond purchases that it started making during the depths effort to offset the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It's not the first time that the Fed has undertaken 'quan ...  Show more

Short maturity government bond yields in Europe and the US may move somewhat high in the near term, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.  In this Macro Matters edition of the Bloomberg Intelligence FICC Focus podcast, Chief US Interest Rate Strategist Ira Jersey is joined by his ...  Show more