The 3 Most Important Investing Charts Today

Markets went crazy after last week's employment report. What happened and what are the important takeaways from it all? In this video we explain three of the most important charts in the economy today and what they could mean for the future of the financial markets and the economy.

Chapters:

0:08 Intro
00:24 Average hourly earnings and the wage price spiral relief
00:36 Why would rising wages be bad?
00:58 Temp help and why it matters
01:41 Fed Funds Futures
02:24 Three big takeaways from these charts
02.:30 The return of the 1970s looks increasingly low
02:40 The risk of a deep housing downturn is still in play
3:00 Is a 5% overnight rate the gift of the decade?
03:20 Conclusion

Cullen Roche is the CIO of Discipline Funds, an asset management and financial advisory firm. He has managed billions of dollars in his career and helped thousands of people achieve financial independence. He is the author of the best-selling book "Pragmatic Capitalism" as well as the most widely read macroeconomic paper on the SSRN database "Understanding the Modern Monetary System".

Disclaimer - This is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice.

[disciplinefunds]

Happy new year everyone. I hope you enjoy this video. Please let me know if there's a topic you want me to cover in future videos.

[johneterno]

Great video, thanks. One suggestion: you talk about earnings "decreasing, " but your chart and discussion are actually about % increases, and the fact that those (and thus inflation) are coming down. Wages aren't actually decreasing.