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THE WEEKLY KUT – February 13, 2023   Welcome to the WEEKLY KUT where I recap the best social media posts, podcasts, and anything else noteworthy that I shared during the week. Today we look back at the week of February 6th, 2023. Here is what made the KUT. Incoming… Today is Monday. There is …

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INFLATION GOLDILOCKS The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of inflation as a rate of change. The January CPI report is coming in hot and will be released on Tuesday. “Hot” in that sentence implies it is coming soon and will have a big impact on arrival. However, in the case of the actual …

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Are You Ready to Surf the Debt Super-Cyclone?   Find out in the latest episode of the Milkshakes Markets Madness Show. You can watch it on my YouTube Channel or visit the subscribe page on MilkshakesPod.com to listen with your favorite podcast app.   ————————————– SEASON 01 | EPISODE 04 ————————————– Big wave surfers are …

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READ THIS BEFORE YOU CONSIDER A HELOC (or Refinance) There are a lot of misunderstandings about what The Fed does when it “raises rates” and the impact it has on mortgage rates. The Fed has limited policy tools when it makes monetary policy, one of those is the Fed Funds Rate, an overnight lending rate. …

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THE WEEKLY KUT – January 09, 2023   Welcome to the WEEKLY KUT where I recap the best social media posts, podcasts, and anything else noteworthy that I shared during the week. Today we look back at the week of January 2nd, 2023. Here is what made the KUT. Financial Markets “2022 Year in Review” …

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Has The Fed Slayed the Inflation Dragon?   Find out in the latest episode of the Mortgage Guru Podcast. You can watch it on my YouTube Channel or visit the subscribe page on MortgageGuruPodcast.com to listen with your favorite podcast app.   ————————————– SEASON 03 | EPISODE 01 ————————————– The new year decided to start …

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MARCH MADNESS   March 2020 was the beginning of utter madness, in so many ways. For the financial markets, it meant unprecedented intervention from governments and central banks to keep the global economy from imploding. As a result of their policy decisions, we all experienced the severe side effect of 40-year high inflation in 2022. …

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HOUSING MARKET   In Part 5, the final post of the financial markets “2022 Year in Review”, we look at everyone’s favorite topic … the housing market. The 2022 Housing Bubble in the US is BIGGER than 2006, when considering home values adjusted for median income.   Meanwhile, the rapid change in mortgage rates this …

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THE WEEKLY KUT – December 19, 2022   Welcome to the WEEKLY KUT where I recap the best social media posts, podcasts, and anything else noteworthy that I shared during the week. Today we look back at the week of December 12th. Here is what made the KUT. Financial Markets “2022 Year in Review” This …

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