Sep 20, 20233 minWhat if it works?A key question our friend Dave Dredge at Convex Strategies often asks policy officials in Japan about extreme measures (ZIRP, QE, YCC...
Sep 18, 20233 minJust Can't Get Enough I Just can’t get enough I Just can’t get enough The markets slip and slide when we end the dove And I just can’t seem to get enough...
Sep 14, 20233 minA Year of Contras As we have noted recently 2023 has been the year of the contras where swings in major macro trends have caught consensus positioning and...
Sep 13, 20233 minBlind Leading the BlindIn August we noted that a key characteristic of 2023 has been swings in the prevailing bias on major macro trends that have caught...
Aug 31, 20233 minThe Twisted Logic of Bad Equals Good One of the key characteristics of 2023 has been swings in the prevailing bias on major macro trends that have caught consensus...
Aug 23, 20234 minA Rolling Loan Gathers No LossLong end yields have recently broken to new cycle highs. From our perch, as we noted earlier this month, this likely reflects a few key...
Aug 18, 20233 minThe Great Fall of ChinaThe Economist Cover on August 29th, 2015, was titled the “Great Fall of China.” While that was not quite the trough in that episode or...
Aug 11, 20232 minIf the First Wave Doesn't Get You the Second Wave WillEarlier this week we suggested that the odds of a soft landing remain low. There have been only 2 out of 12 episodes since 1957. The most...
Aug 7, 20233 minEternal Hope or Revulsion?From our perch, a behavioural error analysts and investors often make is to extrapolate cyclical dynamics as structural. The macro cycle...
Aug 4, 20232 minThe Bond Market Woke up and Chose Violence“No Mr Bond… I expect you to die.” As an astute investor noted today, yield curves re-steepen (un-invert) as long bonds worry about...