2022-10-18

Why doesn’t everyone become a bank

Banks are companies that finance themselves and make profits. Just like regular companies. Except that governments guarantee borrowing undertaken by banks, so that they can be very highly geared and do stuff which has a very low return on assets.

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17 Oct 22

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Incredibly, the appointment of Jeremy Hunt, and the unpicking of the Kwarteng ‘mini’ budget has boosted risk assets globally. I’m not sure about the logic of this. Supposedly, the budget itself was dictated to the UK government by the evil forces of global capitalism via …

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The fallout from yesterday’s CPI print is still being felt. The money supply is the only thing that matters, and the Fed is the only central bank that matters. After a 160 point move in SPX yesterday, there was a 100 point move in the other direction today …

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2022-10-13

Apology

I’ve been on holiday, and then I’ve been busy catching up. I will start writing something every evening pretty soon, but my Real Life &tm; is rather busy right now.

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It was an inflation day. The headline rate was 8.2%, 10bp above expectations, but nothing …

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2022-10-02

Broadridge Financial Solutions [[$BR]]:

Spruce Point Capital published on Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR — $22.3 billion), a corporate services and financial technology company. Spruce Point called the company “a low value-added business process outsourcer with rising financial stress and dubious technology prowess.” Spruce Point highlighted website and disclosure …

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Trussonomics is deeply stupid. But there seems to be a lot of hyperventilating going on. No, it won't cause a global crisis — for God's sake, Britain is only 3.2% of world GDP. And while British markets are a mess, we're a long way from …

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2022-09-29

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All risk assets are down today, including longer-dated bonds. Even stocks that never go down, like $AAPL and $TSLA are affected. Supposedly, the UK’s government’s woes are the cause of some of this mayhem. It seems unlikely, somehow, that this wet and windy island can cause …

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28 Sept

It ain’t over ‘till the unemployment numbers go up

This post explains how commodity-price driven inflation must lead to wage inflation and that only when this is brought down by ‘mass’ unemployment will inflation generally be tamed. It’s a grim picture, but may be right.

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Crescat Strategy

Crescat Aug newsletter. This newsletter shows some charts from the 60’s 70’s, when inflation was high, and drove up unemployment and drove down equities. It also shows how cheap energy has become relative to almost any other sector, but particularly relative to consumer discretionary.

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2022-09-27

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Russia🇷🇺 is most likely the first and only country in the world where people flee not because someone invaded their country, but because they invaded another country. pic.twitter.com/TzKnoBldP7

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (English) (@mbk_center) September 27, 2022

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A couple of Fed Presidents (Evans, Mester and Kashkari …

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