you can buy them from Treasury direct or in any brokerage account.
p.s. In general, borrow from banks, invest/deposit your cash in brokerage accounts.
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you can buy them from Treasury direct or in any brokerage account.
p.s. In general, borrow from banks, invest/deposit your cash in brokerage accounts.
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We have systemic shortages of what you quoted, the latter two because of government intervention. So unless the Feds change their policies (they wont), we are going to continue experiencing energy and housing shortages and thus inflation, forcing the Fed to raise.
I could easily see going back down to the mid 3000's, and lower if the Fed has to go to 6%
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I'll attest that using Treasury Direct is very simple.
My earlier point about housing:
In this volatile housing market, here's how to know when the bottom is in
Signs are accumulating in the housing market that homebuyers waiting on a big price bust a la 2008 or mortgage-rate relief may not get what they want.
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Heck, I think we hit the mid-3000s if May has a .25 hike with core cpi still high. If we hit 6%, I think we go much lower.
@mr.h , didn’t the FED already say a ton of pain is coming? Have we really seen any real pain?
core cpi to 2% or
Unemployment jumps or
Something breaks or
The FED has zero credibility
Im going with something breaks
Look to Bonds for an Alternative to the Stock Market Now
For the first time in 16 years, yields on short-term Treasury bills have climbed to around 5%. That poses stiff competition to equities trading at high valuations and offering dividend yields of just 1.65%.
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Yes, the Fed said we will have real pain, but is it necessary? January was a strong month and they should wait and see what happens in February. Earnings are already pointing to a recession and interest rates are rising. Walmart and Home Depot are both saying consumers are looking for lower prices, and they believe demand will drop. The Fed already stated that inflation has peaked and that we are in a deflationary cycle. [the fed has zero cred]
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He said "disinflation" which is very different than deflationary, and the recent data has actually been inflationary.
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You are right, but January was exceptionally strong, coming off a weak December, especially job numbers, and would like to see February numbers before making rate hike decisions. January felt like a Christmas rally and the job numbers may be temporary. Companies are projecting weakness ahead.
Consider, for example, some stubbornly strong economic activity data. S&P Global said on Tuesday that its U.S. composite purchasing managers' index rose to 50.2 in February, an eight-month high. Economic activity was also strong across the Atlantic: The Eurozone's composite output index rose to 52.4, implying a faster pace of expansion than January. While the Euro Stoxx 50 index has outperformed the S&P 500 in dollar terms since the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Heard's Stephen Wilmot points out that the going may get harder as European investors likely shift their attention to interest rates.
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Yes…Europe and especially England have it worse than we do. We will see.
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For all of the news about housing sales being down, PRICES are still rising albeit at a slower pace. Used car prices are back up, food is still rising, wages are still rising, etc etc.
At January’s sales pace, it would take 2.9 months to exhaust the current inventory of existing homes up from 1.6 months a year ago. A four-to-seven-month supply is viewed as a healthy balance between supply and demand.
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At January’s sales pace, it would take 2.9 months to exhaust the current inventory of existing homes up from 1.6 months a year ago. A four-to-seven-month supply is viewed as a healthy balance between supply and demand.
U.S. home sales post 12th straight monthly decline; house price inflation cools
U.S. existing home sales dropped to a more than 12-year low in January, but the pace of decline slowed.
With multiple FOMC members talking about .5, I wouldn't be shocked to see it in March. At a minimum, we are looking at .5 over the next 3 months and a chance at .75-1 if CORE CPI remains near it's current rate. Stocks normally don't bottom until after a few rate decreases from the FED so we are still many months away from the bottom.
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