Despite much ballyhoo over yield curve steepening, the chart shows significant flattening process is still underway.

At the current rate, the US treasury yield curve will achieve perfect flatness in mid-2019.

That’s what the long-term trend on the long-side, coupled with a shorter-term trend on the short-side suggests.

The convergence point is approximately 2.72% in mid-2019.

I am quite sure that won’t happen in the 2019 timeframe, but it could easily happen this year.

All it would take is three rate hikes in 2018 with the rest of the curve not reacting.

That’s not my call, but the more aggressively the market prices in future rate hikes, the more likely it is.

If we get to that point, we will be on the verge of economic collapse.

Inflation is in the Rear-View Mirror

Those looking for a huge inflation boost fail to understand credit dynamics.

Austrians who only look at money supply keep expecting pent-up inflation. The Monetarists at the Fed (central banks in general), are clueless about the situation they fueled.

Perhaps we get consumer inflation for a quarter or two, but inflation is in the rear view mirror, primarily having impacted asset prices, not consumer prices.

Rising interest rates are already starting to impact the housing market.

The auto market, home supply markets, and consumer credit in general got a temporary housing boost.

What’s next won’t be pretty, and almost no one sees it coming. They can’t. Inflation is in the rear-view mirror.

What economists expect to happen, already has. They don’t see it because they do not understand what inflation really is.

Weakening Economy

The economy is weakening and the Fed, fearing inflation is hiking right into it.