Category Archive: 5) Global Macro
Inflation Hysteria #2 (Nominal UST)
What had given Inflation Hysteria #1 its real punch had been the benchmark 10-year Treasury note. Throughout 2017, despite the unemployment rate in the US, globally synchronized growth being declared around the world (and being declared as some momentously significant development), and whatever other tiny factors acceding to the narrative, longer-term Treasury rates just weren’t buying it.
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Jittery Markets Keep the Dollar Afloat (For Now)
US fiscal negotiations are taking longer than expected; US Treasury auctions $56 bln of 3-year notes; we believe the Fed is watching the yield curve closely; Brazil reports November IPCA inflation; Chile kept rates on hold at 0.50% and tweaked its asset purchase program.
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People Are Now Aware Of What Will Happen
Recently, people are more aware of what can happen. This awareness raises in economic conditions and political realities make people think. Every new choice is a new beginning for people.
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Submit Questions for Jeffrey Snider on Liberty and Finance!
Submit Questions for Jeffrey Snider, Chief Investment Strategist for Alhambra Investments on Liberty and Finance!
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Polar Opposite Sides of Consumer Credit End Up in the Same Place: Jobs
If anything is going to be charged off, it might be student loans. All the rage nowadays, the government, approximately half of it, is busily working out how it “should” be done and by just how much. A matter of economic stimulus, loan cancellation proponents are correct that students have burdened themselves with unprofitable college “education” investments.
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Take Advantage of These COVID Estate Planning Opportunities by the End of 2020
May you live in interesting times. Although that sounds like an ancient blessing, it’s believed to be a Chinese curse casting instability and uncertainty on the person who hears it. Blessing or curse, it’s a great description of the year we’ve just come through, and in spite of all the turmoil, there are some things you can do before the end of 2020 to take advantage of all the madness.
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A Hackers Teleology by Charles Hugh Smith
"What every human wants is fairness, a chance to belong that offers everyone opportunities to get ahead by our own merit and a say when decisions are made.
Even before the global upheavals, our system was failing—it wasn’t fair at all. Now that it’s unraveling, it’s time for a new arrangement that’s actually sustainable on our resource-depleted planet that doesn’t favor wealthy insiders.
Hear it Here – https://bit.ly/hackersteleology
Those...
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Some Thoughts on a Potential US Government Shutdown
The US Congress has returned from recess with a lot on its plate. Priority must be given to passing an omnibus spending bill that prevents a government shutdown after December 11. The next round of fiscal stimulus has taken on greater urgency and may be attached to the wider spending bill.
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Don’t Really Need ‘Em, Few More Nails Anyway
The ISM’s Non-manufacturing PMI continued to decelerate from its high registered all the way back in July 2020. In that month, the headline index reached 58.1, the best since early 2019, and for many signaling that everything was coming up “V.”
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Dollar Stabilizes but Weakness to Resume
There are new efforts to pass another round of stimulus sooner rather than later; we warn against getting too optimistic; US bond yields rose in anticipation of stimulus; Fed Chair Powell and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin gave somewhat conflicting outlooks for the US.
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Charles Hugh Smith on Parallels of the Great Fire of Rome 64 AD to Today
Charles Hugh Smith on Parallels of the Great Fire of Rome 64 AD to Today
http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2020/12/03/the-roundtable-insight-charles-hugh-smith-on-parallels-of-the-great-fire-of-rome-64-ad-to-today/
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Life after Trump: what’s the future of the Republican Party? | The Economist
Donald Trump has finally accepted that a presidential transition from his administration to Joe Biden’s should begin. We answer your questions on what the Republican Party could look like in a post-Trump world.
Chapters:
00:00 Trump’s impact on the Republican Party
00:35 Party support for Trump
02:16 Trumpism after Trump
05:37 The era of “alternative facts”
06:56 The GOP in a more diverse America
08:40 The outlook for 2024
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There Have Actually Been Some Jobs Saved, Only In Place of Recovery
The ISM reported a small decline in its manufacturing PMI today. The index had moved up to 59.3 for the month of October 2020 in what had been its highest since September 2018. For November, the setback was nearly two points, bringing the headline down to an estimate of 57.5.
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Dollar Plumbs New Depths With No Relief In Sight
Stimulus talks continue but the goalposts have indeed been moved; the good news is that a package before year-end is looking more likely; optimism regarding stimulus continues to buoy US yields. ISM services PMI is expected at 55.8 vs. 56.6 in October; weekly jobless claims data will be reported; Fed Beige Book report was suitably downbeat.
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Tesla Isn’t A Car Company
We have the luxury, the honor, of speaking to a lot of individual investors here at Alhambra. Whether they are clients or future clients (optimism is my default condition), the most common view of stocks is that they are overvalued and a fall – a large fall – is inevitable. And there is no stock that embodies that view more than Elon Musk’s Tesla Incorporated. It was once known as Tesla Motors but Musk changed the name in early 2017. There may...
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2021 is Already Optimized for Failure
One sure way to identify a system "optimized for failure" is if all the insiders are absolutely confident the system is "optimized for my success". I often discuss optimization here because it offers an insightful window into how systems become fragile and break down.
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Drivers for the Week Ahead
Dollar weakness has resumed. This will be a very important data week for the US and the highlight will be November jobs data Friday; we will also get some important manufacturing readings for November; the Fed releases its Beige Book report for the December FOMC meeting Wednesday; Canada also has a busy week.
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Just Who Is, And Who Is Not, Selling T-Bills
Are foreigners selling Treasury bills? If they are, this would seem to merit consideration for the reflation argument. After all, the paramount monetary deficiency exposed by March’s GFC2 (and the Fed’s blatant role in making it worse) was the dangerous degree of shortage over the best collateral.
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Treasury Auctions Are Anything But Sorry Because They’ve Never Been Sorry About Solly
Twenty years ago, in November 2000, the Treasury Department changed one aspect of the way the government would sell its own debt. Auctions of these and other kinds of securities had been ongoing for decades, back to the twenties, and they had been transformed many times along the way. In the middle of the 1970’s Great Inflation, for example, Treasury gradually phased out all other means for issuing securities, by 1977 relying exclusively on...
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Care after covid: the future of elderly health-care | The Economist
Across the rich world around half of covid-19 deaths have been in care homes. Countries need to radically rethink how they care for their elderly—and some innovative solutions are on offer.
Find The Economist’s most recent coverage of covid-19 here: https://econ.st/3m212Kj
Read our special report on the challenges of caring for an ageing population: https://econ.st/2UW40EB
Why we need to urgently reform our elderly care systems:...
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