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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (171771)	4/18/2022 8:56:19 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	1 Recommendation Recommended By Hawkmoon Respond to of 219712

I think the U.S. Dollar is one of the 4 major asset classes that has broken out upward... Higher rates should continue to attract more dollar buying... I don't know how that's going to wear on the precious metals, probably not bullish longer term for them... GZ

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (171771)	4/19/2022 6:17:25 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	2 Recommendations Recommended By Hawkmoon Mevis Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219712

THE FED IS LYING, THEY HAVE NOT STOPPED EASING, THEIR BALANCE SHEET HAS EXPANDED BY $55 BILLION IN THE PAST 6 WEEKS!!! If you’ve been wondering why stocks suddenly exploded higher last month… wonder no more! We were told the Fed ended its Quantitative Easing (QE) on March 9th 2022. That’s a strange claim given that the Fed’s balance sheet has expanded by $55 BILLION since that time. Heck, the Fed just bought ~$25 billion worth of Mortgage Backed-Securities (MBS) last week. How odd… the Fed supposedly ended QE… but right as stocks began to break down, “someone” suddenly panic bought the markets forcing them higher… and then it turns out the Fed was actually expanding its balance sheet by $55 billion over the same time period. To put this number into perspective, the Fed’s former QE program, the one that supposedly ended, was roughly $30 billion per month at the time it concluded. In this context, the Fed roughly DOUBLED the pace of its former QE to $55 billion… in the month AFTER QE SUPPOSEDLY ENDED. So again, the Fed are total liars. QE didn’t end. In fact, it became larger! Meanwhile, according to official data, inflation hit 8.5% in March of 2022… the highest year over year increase in over 40 years. And if we were to use accurate methods for measuring inflation, it’d be over 12%. Again, the Fed is lying. They are not tightening monetary policy. And inflation is only going to get worse from here. If you want to protect your portfolio from what’s coming, you need to act now. zerohedge.com GZ