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  1. In another 35 bigger cities, condo prices dropped by 8-14%.

  2. But opaque foreign financial centers pile on Treasuries, often held by US companies and hedge funds.

  3. Sales were bad in all regions.

  4. This was a hawkish meeting, with a unanimous vote for a hike, and more hikes indicated.

  5. Not even sky-high gasoline prices could dent their spending on bars & restaurants, ecommerce, cannabis stores, etc.

  6. The function of yield is to create demand.

  7. The interplay of risk and inflation.

  8. But 5% was considered normal to low in the decades before the Fed’s financial repression kicked off in 2008.

  9. Spooked by inflation, deficits, hocus-pocus shows, competition from the AI debt binge, and getting casually thrown under the bus by Trump’s free-money promise.

  10. Core services CPI +4.0% annualized, Core CPI +3.5% annualized, all-items CPI +4.9% annualized in August from July.

  11. Lots of Bad Stuff all at once, topped off by Trump’s $1.35 Trillion Free-Money Promise, $5,000 for every adult American, at the worst possible time.

  12. The average weekly mortgage rate, at 6.76%, is not high historically.

  13. This kind of inflation is nothing to be trifled with: In services +4.5%; in goods without energy +5.0%; in energy +24%; overall +5.4%; year-over-year.

  14. The hocus-pocus show falls flat.

  15. Americans hate, hate, hate high gas prices, but they’re less sensitive to them than auto dealers ironically expected.

  16. The government is already busy fighting over what to do with the $31 billion in profits on its foreign exchange interventions last fiscal year.

  17. The economy did fine with a 10-year yield of 5-8%, including in the 1990s, amid a tight labor market and lots of economic growth.

  18. The job creation machine is running backwards in some industries and forward in others.

  19. The Fed can focus on getting its messy inflation-house in order.

  20. That looming 7% mortgage rate...