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Was the July Withholding Tax Surge Merely Seasonal?


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 In the matter of Recession? What Recession? I got the following question from esteemed Stoolie, Potatohead.

6 hours ago, potatohead said:

would the sharp rise in withholding be due to the seasonal wave of summer job hiring of students?

Good question. It's an annual rate of change, so there's no seasonality, but this year was an enormous surge from last year, so it still contradicts the idea that the economy is entering recession. Business showed no sign of caution in adding payrolls or boosting pay, or both. A 20% y/y surge in the last week of the month is notable.  

However, I also noted that this strength is unlikely to show up in Friday's jobs report because it's based on a survey date early in the month, for starters. And there are other reasons. 

Meanwhile, back at the charts, yesterday we got a V bottom from a significant sport line, and they took it back to the first concentrated conjunction of resistance lines around 3835-55. There they tried and tried again, but failed to make a higher high, and as of 5 AM New York time, have turned tail. 

But bears have accomplished nothing unless they take out 3805 on the downside for starters. That would probably keep the playing field locked into the 3740-3845 range for the short run. If they don't break below 3805  then we turn our lonely eyes back to 3855. A breakout would have a measured move target of 3950. Bulls would be in charge. 

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In Currency Ville, the Your0 heads for a buck. 

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I reiterate the idea that as long as the Fed is tighter than the ECB, and especially if the Fed is removing doolahs from the world market while the ECB is still adding Your0s, this trend will continue. The idea that the Your0 is going to parity is well founded.

But why stop there? The long term measured move target by various patterns is around 0.75-0.80. Indeed, it all depends on when the ECB tightens or the Fed loosens. For anyone like me who earns in dollars, but spends in Your0s, it would seem to pay to hold on to your dollars and convert them for spending only as needed. 

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The 10 Year Treasury yield has pulled back to its 100 day moving average and various other trend support lines. I must admit that I'm surprised it got this far, but I should not have been. The US Treasury is still paying down T-bills at a clip of $105 billion per month. Some of that cash edges further out along the yield curve, and that causes a chain reaction with other investors seeking yield further out along the curve.

But this is where the rubber meets the road. 

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BTC continues to lull its fans into a false sense of security, hanging around 20,000. The 1 year cycle projection remains 13,000.

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And the long term measured move target of the big top breakdown is immutable at 5,000 below zero. 

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Bearish views are unsafe in the short run until the hourly oscillators drop below their zero lines. And even then, maybe not. There needs to be a concurrent price drop below 3800 for starters. 

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55 minutes ago, sandy beach said:

After dropping for a while now interested rates are really bouncing today. 91-day treasury IRX Index 1.838% up 12.76%. 10Y and 30Y rates  at 2.913% and 3.139% respectively up over 3% today. The dollar strength is continuing to crush gold, oil and other currencies.

Dollar strength is a measure of Fed tightness. It's not cause. It's effect, as are all prices and rates. Liquidity is cause. Price is the measure of effect. We also need to distinguish between short term, intermediate, and longer term trends of those measures, again as measurements of the effects of monetary tightness. Fed has been gradually tightening since announcing the end of QE, and got more aggressive in June, beginning QT- active draining of money from worldwide banking system. 

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Yesterday, the US Treasury balance dropped by $97 billion to $685 billion. This brings the Treasury balance to near the desired target of $650 billion.  I had previously projected that Treasury paydowns would end in July. They are on schedule. The shit will hit the fan in the second half of July. 

Recession? What Recession?

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Did the "FED" just release a statement, or is this the usual QE waiting for

the mysterious rip job into the close......Low in the morning higher at the end.....

or am I/They  being "redundant" / "repetitive"   et, al...........

 

>: above all else......interest rates are still going to NIRP/ZIRP Worldwide

everyone seems to be betting on it, and talking the "narrative"

>:: Euro $ seems to be equal but seperate?

>::: And somehow Gold and Silver keep getting the J. Epstein

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