Stocks, bonds, commodities — every asset class is being tossed to and fro by the Fed’s relentless rate hikes.

But two reports due out shortly will change everything — and there’s one key way we can prepare.

September 26, 2022

Dear Fellow Investor,

The markets are still reeling from the recent stunning volatility.

For a few months now, I’ve been talking about how there was no sign of capitulation from investors, and how they were still rushing right back into the market after every big sell-off.

Despite every indication from Jerome Powell and his Federal Reserve compadres, the belief in a “Fed put” still persisted.

Well, reality began to bite over the last couple of weeks. Consider what investors have been subjected to over the last two weeks:

If there’s any consolation for gold bugs, it’s that the yellow metal has significantly outperformed the stock market by losing less. Note, however, how symmetrical gold’s drop has been with the Dollar Index’s gain.

Wonder if there are any algorithms in play?

But here’s why I’m writing you today: Traders, algorithms and anyone invested in the current consensus view are about to be thrown for a loop in the weeks just ahead...

Two Reports That Are Going To Shock The Markets

The fact is, government statisticians are about to release two separate reports that will shatter the consensus view and the Fed’s hopes of quelling inflation.

The first: The nonfarm payrolls report for September, released on October 7 (next Friday).

The one factor that government apologists have been pointing to when arguing that the U.S. economy is not in a recession is the still-strong jobs market. The unemployment rate has remained historically low and there’s a long line of jobs waiting for someone...anyone...to fill them.

Since last month’s August jobs report, however, we’ve seen dozens of big employers — Facebook, The Gap, Fed Ex, Walmart, Re/Max, Walls Fargo and many more — announcing significant layoffs.

In short, the jobs number for September should show that the Fed’s hikes are having precisely the designed impact of slowing the economy. It will also likely remove, however, any remaining shred of doubt that we’re in a deepening recession.

And that could slow the Fed’s rate-hike campaign.

The second: The report on annualized Federal interest payments, released on October 27.

Late next month, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis will release the first estimate of third-quarter Gross Domestic Product. Everyone will immediately focus on whether that number is positive or negative.

However, it won’t take long before eagle-eyed analysts find a very important number buried in that report: federal interest payments on an annual basis.

Reported quarterly inside the GDP report, this number shows how much interest we’re paying on our monumental federal debt.

As I’ve been reporting in this newsletter, the total for the second quarter had already soared to a new record high of $600 billion. The trendline has been pointed for the sky, despite the fact that the Fed’s aggressive rate hikes have yet to be factored in.

That’s why the third quarter number should be absolutely shocking...and reveal that Powell & Co. simply can’t increase rates any further without cratering the federal budget.

If anything will stop them, this will.

In other words, by the end of next month, everything the majority now believe about the investing environment will be radically changed.

And we need to be prepared.

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All the best,

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Editor, Gold Newsletter
CEO, the New Orleans Investment Conference

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