UK back to the 1970s

Well, we’re now firmly in double-digit territory in the UK, in terms of YoY CPI increases. This is not only the biggest market story, it’s dominating the Main Street news. The UK does not have the protection that comes from issuing the world …

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ESG and anti-ESG

I understand why people like the idea of ESG. I understand that cynical, hard-nosed hustlers want to muscle in to profit on what the mass of suckers want. I guess this explains Blackrock’s obsession with ESG, but I am not totally sure. I suspect that …

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15 Aug 2022

The US Treasury curve inversion

There are a lot of measures of yields and discount curves. Looking at raw T-bill yields is not ideal, because they have cash flows at all sorts of dates. However, there is clearly a material difference between the duration of the 10Y …

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Friday 12, August 2022

Farmland

The Chicago Fed survey indicates a huge increase in land values for “good” farmland.

Farmland values for the Seventh Federal Reserve District rose 22 percent in the second quarter of 2022 from a year earlier, roughly matching the year-over-year gains of the previous two quarters …

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Leaky buckets

Arthur Okun likened taxes to leaky buckets. The leaks are the unintended consequences and lost revenue caused by the change of peoples behaviour in response to the imposing of the tax.

Roger Lowenstein wrote a piece about the latest omnibus bill passed by the US Senate replaced a …

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Wednesday 10, August 2022

Coinbase

[[$COIN]] results out.

$COIN is guiding $1.5 billion of stock based comp for FY22 while firing 1000 employees. That’s $1.5 million per fired employee.

This is not a joke tweet. Absolutely egregious.

— Woodrow Oates Montague (@sadvalueinvestr) August 9, 2022

Inflation

Inflation expectations …

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The Fed and the BoE

Central Banks

Everyone (well, someone) keeps asking me “Why is the Bank of England raising rates so much when everyone is forecasting that we’re about to go into a recession?” To be honest

170 years of Bank of England policy rates:

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Sunrun inc

Sunrun: “ESG” is for Everybody Screws the Government (RUN US)

Muddy Waters is short Sunrun Inc. (RUN) because we see it as an uneconomic business built on three shaky pillars: The equity story of exaggerated “Subscriber Values” and “Gross / Net Earning Assets”, funding growth through abusing tax incentives …

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Distracting agenda

Wrap

MARKET SNAPSHOT AS OF 0430 GMT 4 Aug  :

S&P 500 Index Mini Futures: 4,153.00; down 0.08%; 3.25 points
DJIA Mini Futures: 32,764.00; down 0.02%; 6 points
Nikkei: 27,902.26; up 0.58%; 160.36 points
MSCI Asia, Ex- …

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Tuesday 2, August 2022

Real interest rates

The Real Fed Funds rate says the #Fed remains historically behind #inflation. Why discuss 75 bp hikes when the real question is when will they be doing 100bp hikes? pic.twitter.com/NQxlwlxoCX

— Richard Bernstein Advisors (@RBAdvisors) July 13, 2022

When and how …

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