Reflecting on war through industrial eyes. Ukraine's never ending conflict has been good for business across the Military Industrial Compex, across the globe. The threat of an expansionist China has led to wholesale changes in the historically sidelined Japanese military base www.perplexity.ai and business is booming from Mitsubishi Industrial to Rolls Royce...
Just an image I use to see where we are relative to history. Well the market is leaning so far towards easing that market rates (defined here as an average of 1,2,3 years are trading at historic discounts to the fed funds rate. Core and measured CPI there for you too. Enjoy, AMK
Meaningful? Only has meaning to the ADD-afflicted world of traders! Nothing to explain that isn't in the image.
We are sort of in a speed zone here between 24000 and 28000. Didn't trade much here on the way up, nor on the way down. Got rid of some badly levered longs, some Chinese hedge funds, couple of big lenders, and the two wildmen of the corporate balance sheet - Saylor and Elon- well Saylor is no longer CEO of his pile of bitcoin, but probably still very involved. And...
Just a chart I keep to remember where the Fed is vs. rates. This is vs. 10y yield, but easy to do vs. US01y also. While inflation may slow, and the Fed may slow later this year, they are still well behind the curve vs. Core Inflation which I don't need to remind doesn't include commodity price inflation. Enjoy. AMK
I drew this one this way at about 8.50 in the spring and was slightly abused on twitter. no wilting flower, i went back to present it to my critics at about 10+ and now, my critic is off twitter. perhaps they were short. Its been a hellacious run and now? the length will move to the november, the spread will collapse or fluctuate wildly and weather will determine...
Just inflation expectations and nominal yields and the spread