1. Excel: the cockroach of PC apps

    Published: Thu 21 April 2022
    Updated: Sun 01 January 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Thursday 21, April 2022

    ETH and Excel

    Writing software is slow and frustrating. Even outstanding programmers, who may be an order of magnitude faster than mere mortals, take time to create anything big. ETH (Ethereum) is a crypto currency, but with an interface to allow programmers to build apps on …

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  2. Beer

    Published: Wed 20 April 2022
    Updated: Sun 01 January 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Wednesday 20, April 2022

    Tesla is the big story of the day. Elmer Spud writes about it. In my bones I know it’s a Ponzi, but it’s just too damn volatile to short.

    This is an amusing post about Ackman and Netflix. Ackman has become an object of …

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  3. Are we really tightening?

    Published: Tue 19 April 2022
    Updated: Sun 01 January 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Tuesday 19, April 2022

    Chicago Fed National Financial Conditions Index

    A lot of macroeconomic theory is about whether we are above or below full employment. If we are above, the appropriate policy response is to tighten. If we are below, the correct response is to loosen. A a lot of …

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  4. The failure of monetary policy

    Published: Mon 18 April 2022
    Updated: Sun 01 January 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Monday 18, April 2022

    Tweet

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  5. Student loans: a study in moral hazard

    Published: Fri 15 April 2022
    Updated: Sun 01 January 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Good Friday, 15, April 2022

    Wrap

    Markets are largely closed. The USD continued to trend upwards, $DXY now at 100.5.

    Twitter

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  6. Elon makes a fake offer for $TWTR

    Published: Thu 14 April 2022
    Updated: Sun 01 January 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Thursday 14, April 2022

    Twitter ramp

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  7. Lower for … shorter?

    Published: Wed 13 April 2022
    Updated: Sun 01 January 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Wednesday 13, April 2022

    Core print below expectations

    A core group of Jeff Snider, Harley Bassman, Alex Gurevich, Lacey Hunt and Mike Green all believe that dollar yields are going lower. It’s a heterodox view, but the yield curve inversion, as well as declining productivity (which implies declining marginal …

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  8. Will inflation change the direction of the 10Y yield at long last?

    Published: Tue 12 April 2022
    Updated: Tue 22 November 2022
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Tuesday 12, April 2022

    Does central bank tightening actually ever make a difference to measured inflation?

    Will people feel better off after the pandemic than before?

    Images of the day

    Wrap

    US CPI hit 8.5%. Oil (WTI front month) went up 6.8%, to above $100 a barrel again. Bonds were fairly subdued: supply shocks may yet provide enough …

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  9. Bonds get trashed

    Published: Mon 11 April 2022
    Updated: Tue 22 November 2022
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Monday 11, April 2022

    Wrap

    Real assets went down, nominal assets went down. The only securities to to well were puts and gold and the dollar. The long-end of the Treasury market is looking under a lot of pressure. I believe that the market does not believe that the Fed …

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  10. Mankind cannot tolerate too much honesty

    Published: Sat 09 April 2022
    Updated: Tue 22 November 2022
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Saturday 9, April 2022

    Green Agenda

    This tweet caught my eye. I don’t know or care if Obama believes in AGW and its likely effects on sea levels. I care about the fact that this person, who was given great power and continuing influence, as well as huge wealth …

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