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Why The Richmond Fed Better Not Be A Harbinger Of Non-Farm Payrolls To Come
The chart below, which compares the change in the Richmond Fed and the Non-Farm Payrolls print, is self-explanatory. Of course, if we are indeed about to get a -400,000 NFP print, then the prayers of all those newsletter sellers whose only "thesis" is more easing, are about to be answered.
h/t Brad
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July F=MC easing already leaked yesterday.
While the F=MC may be easing, the FOMC has no plans to ease.
Between Apple and the Fed for the next few days.
As usual, the worse the economic data, the better the market will do.
F=ma, !=mc.
F*0*M*C = 0, so maybe that's been the message all along: It's not an acronym where O=Open; it's math, with a zero: The Federal Zero Market Committee.
Sure connects some dots....
Crap.
We are all going to die...
on a long enough timeline...............oh never mind
Time for Goldman to come out with another GDP revision.
It's simple.
After perusing American Thinker this morning...
I am now convinced that the President's Communist beliefs are the real cause of the velocity of money having continually slowed, despite all of Bernanke's shenanigans.
The Richmond Fed index is just showing us that -indeed- the velocity has slowed and looks to continue to do so unless fundamental change takes place (i.e., a reversion to real capitalism).
Dying wouldn't be so bad - at least the Mrs would get the insurance...but losing the job, that could be a bit of a problem...
'Dying wouldn't be so bad - at least the Mrs would get the insurance...but losing the job, that could be a bit of a problem...'
Load 16 tons and what do you get, Another day older and deeper in debt,
St. Peter don't you call me cuz I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0
And a long way to go and a short time to get there...
The "Story of O" I like it.
Perhaps not an NFP print of - 400,000, but a negative number appears to be a foregone conclusion, if the historic correlation is used as a predictor.
Minus 150,000 to - 200,000 will be ample "cause" for Bernanke to issue forth several hundreds of billions in fresh intaglio scrip.
I'm seeing a decoupling of NFP from the Richmond Fed coming and going starting about the middle of 2010.
Actually you seem to be correct Cabot. The Richmond Fed moving average trend line has been negative since 09, but the NFP momentum has essentially been flat. The real question is the Richmond Fed number acting as a forward looking indicator, or has the BLS simply corrupted the NFP so much to make any correlation meaningless. We will know in a few days.
...so that's bearish for PMs, right?
"make it so"-JPM
I would think that would also be the end of Obama's campaign. How the hell could he ever recover from that politicially?
F=MC, is that the equation for QE? Fucked is equal to Much Currency?
Or rather: fucke equals too much currency.....
Well, f=force, m=mass, and c=the speed of light.
Perhaps it means that the force of QE = the mass of money printed times 186000mps.
Hy-Einstien-flation!
Hey, you just gave me a great idea for a new hypothesis. The Monetary Theory of Relativity. Who knows, we may find monetary parallels for both General and Special Relativity. This could be a groundbreaking new paradigm for economics! It could, perhaps even lead to stable solutions for (bear with me) infinite monetary inflation! Or even, gasp, infinite infinite monetary inflation! Climb back from down from those ledges; economics may no-longer be known as the "dismal science", but, rather, our savior! Or, I could be wrong, and we're all doomed, one-fifth of us will starve, and the rest of us will have to eat beans (except the 1%, of course). But never-mind that! All we need now are some big fat research grants. How can you afford to pass on this? You can't!
How does the Black Hole of Debt factor into this?
Black holes might be problematic!
The equation goes something like- S(savers)+B(bend over)-P(pigmen)+OE(obama election)-FD(fuck the dollar)= Fuck You Ben Bernanke
F=MC2
F= m x a
And the Force may not be with us on this one.
...because if it is, Potter's gonna have to put in a slightly larger buy order at 10:30 every morning.
Not a chance. They can make the payroll report say whatever they want.
Sad but true. It might take another 4 months for NFP to catch up just this once...
-157,300
Agreed. The correlation is high but not perfect. Seems we'll get a negative jobs print but not likely to be -400k.
Between this and PMI the data is crystal clear.
Ole Benny and friends are going to be way too late this time.
As usual.
It's almost time for Barack Chavez to shriek, "To the barricades!!"
Thank you Ben for decoupling the real economy from the stock market (which is now nothing more than a betting game on your next statement).
Fed is fucked; QEIII will destroy purchasing power globally.
@the not so mighty
DOW 20,000 - MOGAS $5/gal. Something's gotta give.
Thats why the next easing will not be announced.
It will be behind the scene.
Besides, who says the easing has stopped? Where do you think Washington is getting all the money to continue the giveaways to all the gimme, gimme, gimmes?
With 50% of the population receiving fed aid in one form or another, from the ever diminishing productive half.
The concrete wall is approaching ever closer.
Trojan Horse-destroy it from the inside
Thanks white libs for making the conman dictator
We're doomed
I won't disagree that we are doomed, but it has little to do with who resides in the white house.
pods
It's going to be really funny if Mitt gets the vote and nothing changes for another 4 years. Probably nobody will notice, 4 years is a long time.
The current occupant might not be single handedly responsible for our doom, but he sure as hell has accelerated things exponentially.
This financial charade could have continued for another decade if POTUS had not gotten greedy.
Remember: Physics theory says that as you approach the speed of light things begin to bend inward.
*sigh*
Blue team, red team, he said, she said. When will you proles ever learn?
**sign**
there is no such thing as a straight line in the universe
parallel lines eventually meet
the shortest distance between two points is a curve, not a line
time is a curve
time is an illusion
~
How is keeping the S&P at 1400 for a few more weeks going to create any more Mcjobs exactly?
Fucking magic.
Wingardium Leviosa
Hah!
Because if we print enough money and give it to the Banksters, they will hire us to clean their pools.
You just don't understand the wonderfulness of the current shitshow
Come on, Tyler, don´t worry. You know we´ll never see a -400,000 NFP print, regardless of reality.
Not this side of November, at least.
Default or Print. Chewed by Zombies or Lethal injection.
I'll take 'Shot by a jealous husband' please.
Alex, I'll take fined by the NCAA for $60 million...
the schumer already told the bernank to get to work that means more banker bonuses. the employment numbers are just a ruse to that end.
There is no way we will get a -400,000 print,especially in an election year. Even if it were the case the ministry of truth wouldn't tell us.
"When it gets serious, you have to lie..."
Seems like the mantra for all these fuckers. Libor, Europe, Wall Street, City of London, Government.
We're drowning in bullshit.
No laws against lying, it seems.
Didn't you know....lying is just free speech.
Hmm, perhaps -- but it SHOULD COST you something!
Sigh, why do you hate America so much?
it doesn't really matter what the payroll figure is, it's rolling over and no politician is going to allow any default, let alone meaningful default. The public can't stand for it and can't take it. Printing is inevitable. Gold is an absolute buy at these prices. The paper gold manipulators better load up on new sets of Johnsons and start going to confession.
Behold the Invisible Hand
Seen through the charts of the Man
Revisions be damned
Arithmetic stands
While Fed fingers die in the sand
Correlation is not causation but Damn!
do you need the number to go UP or the number to go DOWN ?? ....... BRB !
Good one. You work for BARC? LOL.
Naaa...more like -100k
i predict -399,999.9999999999999
eggxactly.....and its bush or cheney or atms or romney or somebody dammit
Vote to Audit the Fed could hit the floor as soon as tomorrow... H.R. 459 Vote YES
I'm not much of a believer that they listen, but
Urge them to vote yes on HR 459
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Thanks, shared
Wow! 271 co-sponsers to HR 459!!!!!!
I called my Congressman, talked to his secretary and told her that I voted for him in the last election but, if he did not support the bill he would not get my vote this year.
Saw Ron Paul on C-Span and he said there was no way it would get through the Senate.
This is Robo Cosell....unfortunately, my previous 'Buy IBEX, its bottomed here' call was tragic indeed....I'll be away for a while, licking my wounds.
What, no Chipotle or Green Mountain Coffee?
I bet Cramer would lend you his Margarita salt.
Unless there is a Tsunami on the jobs report, Ben will do nothing. The Dow is near 13,000, spoos over 1,300. Nope, he will get ostracized if he tries it. Just not gonna happen. He is surviving just the way the markets are, no matter what that idiot Schumer wants.
And watch SLV, looks like it may finally be breaking down. This could get ugly today. Bonds, amazing.
Somebody know something about AAPL???
iPhone 5 to have new docking connector, obsolescing ten years or so of accesories:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/whats-dock-apple-shrink-connector-083917831.html
Demand for iPads and iPhones likely remains strong and still riding the coat tails of Steve Jobs.
Besides, AAPL appears to be the equity equivalent of U.S. Treasuries.
Jobs never invented anything; he merely took existing technology and repackaged it into new iGadgets.
People who buy Apple computers are chumps. There's a reason why less than 10% of the computer market is Apple.
If it hadn't been for the iPod, Apple would be gone. Then came the iPhone SmartPhones.
But the latest numbers on SmartPhones don't look too good for Apple either.
Regardless, you're right - time to make everything obsolete so Apple can sell revisions of already existing products. That's the scam they run down every time they release a so-called "new" OS, a la OS X, that wasn't backwards compatible with OS 9 software or hardware. (Note to Bill Gates: You weren't ruthless enough. You should have taken Intel computers, put Windows on them, and told the world you can only run Windows on a MS machine. That's what Jobs did - Apples are nothing but Intel PCs running Apple's OS. Anyone who buys one is an idiot - proprietary everything, and incompatibility galore. Of course, don't look to the Just Us department to force them to sell the OS to everyone . . . Apple owns the Just Us department.)
But sooner or later, Apple will be back to what it really is - a pretender to the technology throne - and it's share price will go back where it belongs - single digits. But it will take a generation of unbrainwashed consumers before it happens.
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I stand corrected, Apple misses on sales.
Perhaps the Apple acolytes are waiting for the iPhone 5, and bought their iPads at Christmas time.
Likely signaling the certainty of a global slowdown.
Jobs was a driving force in whipping the Apple teams to produce the products that turned things around. Without his persona, and demand for perfection and improvement beyond what his employees thought possible, Apple is a risk.
I'm certain many will BTFD, and with FED QE3 being signaled AAPL will likely ramp up again. However, if you have money in Apple sell into strength and put your money into cash, land, or gold and don't keep it in a company that has lost it's founder and visionary.
MarsInScorpio - sounds like a smart plan.
Bullish.
this easing as saviour rings incredibly stupid. Its like the idiot who says. If my business loses 400,000 dollar this year, its not so bad, its a tax write off. Totally ignoring that for most small businesses such a loss means there will be no next year.
Like a stupid housewife spending 50 buck she doesnt have on a product she doesnt need simply because she has a 10 dollar off coupon.
You callin' my wife stoopid?
No no I'm sure he was talking about my wife. And if she has two coupons, she'll go thru the checkout twice just to use them both.
I sit outside. It's just too painful to watch.
My daughter works FT at one of the AAPL flagship stores. For the first time, they cut FT hours from 40 to 35. Hmmmm.
Yep, hearing rumors around here of the same thing.
The fair valuation of AAPL is probably around $250. They do have a lot of cash. As I write this they are trading at $601.
When it goes ... if it goes ... it's gonna be epic.
The Fed. Our Fed, whose keeper is Big Ben? The master of smoke n mirrors, manipulation and deceipt...? Ha, the audit will show nothing but puppy dog kisses and daisies.
Looks like equities finally let the report sink in and they don't like it.
I say no QE3 until the market craps and timing is such oBama cannot benefit from easing in the election.
fed will let him take the blame for broad market drop and not be beneficiary from them printing out of it again.
Tyler, if you are not careful, you are going to make the "Chart of the Day" at Business Insider.
Karl lays it out pretty well
Richmond Fed: Recession
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=209083
The US is probably now in a recession. To think otherwise is delusional.
US retail sales have declined for the past three months (April, May, June). That has not happen since WWII, unless the US is either in a recession or about to enter one. 22 of the 30 most important economic indicators in June, 2012 missed expectations. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported that its monthly manufacturing index fell to 49.7 in June, 2012 from a 53.5 reading in May, its first under 50 contraction since 2009. ECRI’s Lakshman Achuthan predicts we are in a recession. ECRI has a perfect track record. The NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee takes about a year to identify the start of a recession—after a recession has already begun—so NBER is no help.
Now it looks like a negative NFP announcement on August 1, 2012. President Obama is trying to be reelected during a recession! Barack, how do you like your Wall Street BFFs now. I hope their money helps, NOT.