The stimmy keeps on coming 🍾
Inflation adjustments to social security and increases in retiree healthcare (+150bn) completely offset expiring income tax credits (-$150bn)…
Next year those two categories will rise by another $200bn yet again (~1% of GDP) with no real offset.
New tweets by
@TheRoaringKitty
are fascinating from a legal perspective. Literally no words. Pure memes. SEC can’t do anything with that in court. Dude is just pumping like a wizard.
Wonder how Japan manages to have basically no homeless people, no giant rats, no drunks, no drug addicts, no litter, no weed clouds, one blasting loud music.
We are short everything
- not enough homes
- not enough cars
- not enough meat
- hardly any inventory
- not enough workers
We didn’t do anything for a year & then tossed around 20% of GDP for fun money. We have a lot of paper & not a lot of stuff. Gonna be hot for a while
“Essential services” seems like a big business loophole
Lowe’s? Open
Walmart? Open
Target? Open
Family Dollar? Open
Every small business? Closed
Seems strange to bless hundreds shopping at Lowe’s while banning the local plant nursery who rarely has more than 1 customer at once
Trillions of stimulus...
$1.5T in Repo
$1.1T Commercial paper relief
$1T in US fiscal stimulus
$750B QE from ECB
$600B QE from the Fed
$600B bank loan guarantee (France/UK)
$500B in loans (Germany)
$300B in Japanese stimulus (proposed)
$100B in fiscal stimulus across Europe
This was a year’s worth of crisis in a week
Massive oil move, OPEC disaster
Treasury rally & Fixed income RV blowout
Coronavirus expansion
Iran strikes
Record spread widening
Stock bond correlation spike
10% 1 day move in equities
$1.5T in new repo from the Fed
VIX hits 75
Every 1% hike to short rates costs the Treasury Department $150 billion a year in interest payments, which amounts to 4% of the total 2021 federal budget
Why on earth would the Fed hike aggressively and push us into a recession to undo all the fiscal stimulus DC rolled out to prevent a nasty one during COVID?
The left doesn’t realize many people find their cultural conformity as oppressive and authoritarian as they see Trump. That their casual disdain for rural Americans is as ugly as the racism and prejudice they continually profess to fight.
When this is over, we will have given away trillions, which will mostly be spent on short term consumables while infrastructure still remains in decay (despite arguing over $800B for a decade). As with war, future generations will wonder how we squandered so much, so quickly.
Nobody trusts Chinese economic data but everybody is now relying on their healthcare data...
the medical field is going to learn this the hard way, the same way the finance community has had to
They are pulling out the same playbook they used on Venezuela & Iran to force regime change in Russia. Turn off access to our financial system & basic trade.Only problem is that it didn’t change leadership - it just wrecked locals & propped up global oil prices.
This isn’t stimulus.
It’s a big plug for the financial system and a little morsel for citizens to patch over what’s happening. If this lasts longer than a few weeks the money is wasted.
There are 128m households in America. You could give all of them $10,000 for $1.3 Trillion
Religion has died and has been reborn as Bitcoin, CrossFit, being anti-racist, being vegan, saving the climate.
People want to believe.
I like the old version better (minus the anti-science part)
Six asset managers control 92% of all ETF assets. The others—all 118 of them—are fighting over 8% of the assets. The top two, BlackRock and Vanguard, manage two out of every three ETF dollars in the U.S.
If you look historically we haven’t cut our reliance on any energy source, we have just added new sources as we’ve grown. Yes the relative percentage falls, but not the level of consumption. Those expecting oil to disappear are going against the entire history of energy.
Just had dinner with my friend. He told me about his new 5500 sqft house and how climate change is the most important global issue.
I told him he had a nice SUV too and literally laughed in his face.
Personal finance is simple
-Don’t screw up your biggest financial commitments (college/housing/autos/marriage)
- Creatively minimize your largest expenses (housing/transport/food/medical care). Nothing else really matters as long as you’re not careless
-Save save save & invest
For markets, coronavirus is mostly over. There will be no more shut downs. Data doesn't support them & they were bad policy to begin with. Normalization will happen slowly, then all at once. Inventories are drained too. 2021 will be roaring as long as policy doesn't mess it up
The next two weeks will likely hold a few things
1) very bad economic data
2) a ridiculous amount of policy measures
3) some amazing examples of Americans coming together
Bitcoin compared to other bubbles. There is only one which surpasses it: the Dutch tulip mania.
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National debt is just the tip of the iceberg.
Unfunded liabilities such as Medicare, Social security, and pensions dwarf this amount by a factor of 10.
Stop saying fucking “algos.”
At least have the decency to pick one segment of the market to blame: CTAs, delta hedging, vol controlled annuities, etc.
There are no magic machines that make the market do the opposite of what you think rational people should do.
What else do you need to see?
-Inverted yield curve
-Fed is about to cut rates
-layoffs are ticking up
-PMIs are rolling over
-commodities in the trash
-Residential investment is negative
-Auto sales are negative
-Capex/exports rolling over
These fuckers let ISIS recruit on here, people can share porn which kids can see, videos of beheading.... and their priorities are to silence the president of the United States, a group of mostly peaceful protestors and anything incriminating about Hunter Biden?
I have a confession to make. For my entire life I‘ve gotten a strange pleasure out of deeply irritating the self righteous. I’ve always felt the world was far too nuanced to have particularly strong opinions and I enjoy poking holes in their logic or emotional reasoning.
Everything is getting cancelled. Spoke with my friend in Guatemala who’s a photographer. Six weddings he was set to cover have been nixed. No sports. No concerts. No classes. No new films. Travel down massively. This is going to be incredibly acute in ways we don’t even realize.
The problem with public assistance in America is that citizens get more irritated about $1000 going to their neighbor than they do a $10,000,000 handout to some person in power they don't know.
You can’t make this shit up.
Comic book produced by the NY Fed outlines exactly what’s going on today
I also have no idea how this made it into my library 😂
Keep your eyes on China. If they fall, they’re bringing the world down with them. They’ve been roughly 30% of global growth & 50% of investment in recent years.
Manufacturing has been waning all year, driven by trade sentiment & tightening. Data is getting worse despite easing.
Interestingly, gold is down today
This also affirms my view Bitcoin is mostly about speculation, which easy money (stimmy) facilitates. It’s a cult asset, like Tesla... not a store of wealth like gold. People don’t want to preserve purchasing power, they want to get rich quick.
Happy anniversary to Joe Biden! 🎂
Key accomplishments
-gave away a few trillion dollars
-brought back coal from the dead
-made inflation great again
-admitted defeat against COVID
I still don’t understand why now, when the pandemic is finally over, they feel the need to push vaccine mandates (which don’t stop the spread) and finally mail out test kits to people at home? This would have made sense a year and two years ago, respectively. It’s a tragic comedy
Stocks are now only down about 10% from last spring when we thought a trade war was our biggest fear. No real earnings since then either. Not much of a selloff given the shock we’re seeing. Testament to the faith markets place in the Fed & policy makers’ commitment to stimulate