Hey
@LukeGromen
, do you think it’s about time for the ‘It’s Just an Asset Swap’ and ‘QE doesn’t do anything’ believers to admit that perhaps, they are wrong?
If one of my longs produced numbers and a sobering conference call like TSLA’s 3Q23 quarterly results, it would be down at least 10%- and yet their is a 50/50 shot TSLA stock will be up tomorrow- God bless their investor base and market structure.
@EismanSteven
💯- great read- only thing I would add is that I hope a return to 'free markets' excludes or substantially reduces bailing out too bog too fail entities and the participants who run these franchises. A big part of the wealth gap is the lack of adverse price discovery at the top.
Really funny headline when you stop and think about it- A bank that makes loans for a living starts a division to make loans. Guess those risk weights too hard to handle.
Great podcast- funny the Godfather of MMT is worried about excessive government spending- even funnier he is currently domiciled in Saint Croix, a tax haven- unreal
NEW ODD LOTS:
MMT's Godfather Says US Gov Is Spending Like A 'Drunken Sailor'
@tracyalloway
and I talked to
@wbmosler
who says the the combo of high deficits, high debt/GDP, and the Fed's strategy here is making inflation worse, and may push it higher.
I would thought a superior AI underwriting process would have sniffed out deterioration in ‘prime’ credits before originating the loan. That said, seems like the company’s AI correctly guided mgmt to sell stock.
Value: After Hours with
@farnamjake1
@Seawolfcap
and
@VD718
is LIVE TODAY at 1.30pm E / 10.30am P / 6.30pm UTC / 4.30am AUS
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My latest interview with
@VD718
and
@Seawolfcap
out now:
THE NEXT BIG SHORT: THE DEBT SUPERCYCLE
Filmed for 2 hours in-person during Powell's FOMC speech 🔥
Watch on
@Blockworks_
👇
The correlation of people asking for some form of bailout/deposit protection and also wanting higher unemployment so long duration risk assets to appreciate seems to be very high.
A dimension to this story that we can’t forget.
Many of the leading folks in the industry that now wants Powell to step up and protect them spent the last 5 years telling lies and breeding cynicism about the Fed as pretext to sell cryptocurrencies to retail bagholders.
I really don’t get the love affair for this name. So many yellow and red flags- I do agree, perfect execution in applying Silicon Valley Accounting Principles (SVAP).
$SOFI's execution should be rewarded with a much higher multiple than it gets. There is no US Fintech nor bank with better execution in the last two years. Not one.
M&T has great mgmt pedigree. I remember meeting former CEO Robert Wilmers with
@Seawolfcap
and seeing his bike parked near corporate headquarters in NYC- Very bank geek stuff but I felt I was looking at a royal treasure.
Great quote from
@VD718
:
"You show me the asset with the low risk weighting, and I will show you where the next bubble is."
So much learning in this one... especially on the banks
We talk energy & uranium, too
Vinny
@VD718
Daniel and Porter
@Seawolfcap
Collins join
@farnamjake1
and me on Value: After Hours LIVE TODAY at 1.30pm E / 10.30am P / 5.30pm UTC / 3.30am AUS
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I want to give a HUGE shoutout to my friend
@CorneliaLake
on Tidewater's $TDW success.
He pitched TDW/offshore on my podcast in April 2023.
Since then, TDW is up ~150%.
Investing is a lonely game. It's important to celebrate the wins when good people get them.
Someone has to buy our debt (also called treasuries) at relatively low coupons. Banks were always the logical levered buyer- I would have thought the whole SIVB fiasco would have exposed the flaws but…someone has to buy the debt.
A potential change in leverage calculations could make banks a limitless purchaser of Treasuries just as future issuance is surging. This well worn path of sovereign financing would boost liquidity across markets and place upward pressure on asset prices.
One major difference between current markets and yesteryear is the lack of price discovery from elevated insider activity. In the past, insider sells or buys were signals- Today?…who cares. I attribute it to current market structure.
Another $SOFI insider sale.
@Derek_j_white
, CEO of Galileo Technologies, SoFi's Tech Platform, filed a form 144 to sell 49k shares worth $443k. Somehow I missed this one yesterday with the other filings.
Per his most recent Form 4, it's about 11% of his current $SOFI shares.
Wow .. Biden speaking in PA just now: "that little outfit that sets interest rates .. it's going to come down. They're going to come down"
Lower interest rates ahead??
#fed
Thanks
@GuyAdami
for being concerned about my mental psyche post Mets debacle and Rodgers injury- I know it came from the heart. Great podcast and
@UrbanKaoboy
a super value added guest voice to your arsenal
My savagery is proportional to hypocrisy and bad marketing.
Restricting competitors and restricting even people talking about competitors = weak sauce.
The pro free speech schtick is a marketing thing. Not a real position. It is therefore fair to mock it.
Great thread- this particular statement provides much color as to why we are seeing what we are seeing in the options market. Show me the risk weights and I’ll show you the excess leverage
The "smart money" is now exploiting a new regulatory loophole in the options market to make a quick (lucrative) buck. They are selling large amounts of deep out-of-the-money 0DTE options, without having to post margin to clearinghouses, who don't count intraday expiries...
There's a brewing credit crisis in car loans 🚗, according to
@DiMartinoBooth
.
Borrowers are now walking away from their cars because they know they can't pay the loan back.
Link to full interview:
Apple 🔊
Spotify 🔊
1/ Lessons From The Tech Bubble:
Last year, I spent my winter holiday reading hundreds of pages of equity research from the 1999/2000 era, to try to understand what it was like investing during the bubble
A few people recently asked me for my takeaways. Here they are -
Not sure why but it irks me that financial media feels like they need to dress like they are Kevin Costner in Yellowstone at Jackson Hole. When I visit Miami, I don’t dress like Pitbull- in the words of
@dmoses34
, make it stop.
@Seawolfcap
The Democrats are very much in Jets QB territory. People are clammoring to bench the starter for QB2 or even 3. And more often than not people realize the backups are even worse than your starter. But the overwhelming vibe of “you gotta do *something*” has taken over
@SantiagoAuFund
As we quarrel over the meaning of Buffett’s gold purchase (my take-perhaps too small to claim victory but definitely not a negative for current gold owners), what I find more interesting is his non-trivial reduction in his regulated bank positions.
The Jets increasing their Season Ticket prices 24% after a 4 win season in 2021 = Not Good
The Jets giving their Season Ticker Holders one months notice to pay for their 2024 tickets by Mid November when we have historically had until February the following year= Really Not Good
Great podcast, particularly
@profplum99
’s bottom up perspective of ODTE option trends- Thanks confirms an admitted bias on bank risk weight philosophy. Show me the low risk weight and I will show the next risk.
"When interest rates go up, people are going to start to default"
@profplum99
on "The Big Short" dynamics which he sees at play now in car loans & commercial real estate
Apple 🔊
Spotify 🔊
YT 📽️
We've been inching closer to this for the last 16 years. Things always take longer than you think in finance, but I wouldn't be surprised if we're doing full-blown monetization in 2024-2028. That is the endgame. /fin
Is this cost increase transitory or can we simply exclude it from economists preferred measurement of inflation and ignore it completely? Sadly CRE investors can’t ignore this very sticky inflation.
1) We are short The Bancorp, Inc. $TBBK. $TBBK holds $2B in multifamily bridge loans ("REBLs") and claims the book holds "no substantial risk of losses." We think otherwise. Our full report is now available on our website,
@Seawolfcap
@rsosa8
SOFI is sum of the best accounting alchemy I have seen. Can’t sell the loan or don’t like the marks? just keep it on the books and mark it up anyway- what amazes me is the bank regulators allow these earnings to be considered capital.
.
@KevinMuir
&
@PatrickCeresna
welcome
@PauloMacro
to the show. They discuss which commodities have fundamentals improving under the covers, and how he is playing this new era. Then we have our good friend
@HKuppy
to announce a new stock that he has previously never mentioned!
The End Game episode 6 is live, featuring a true gentleman and a scholar in Lacy Hunt. The perfect counterpoint to our conversation with Russell Napier, Lacy makes the case for continued deflation as forcefully and as eloquently as always.
@fleckcap
NEW ODD LOTS:
How to never have bank bailouts again.
@tracyalloway
and I talked to Stanford GSB professor Anat Admati, on her vision for redesigning bank funding in order to make the financial system far less fragile
@CorneliaLake
an unfortunate setup for the Yipit bros- datascraping analysis strongly suggested a weak quarter but scraping analysis could not foresee
@hkuppy
coming off the top rope with a chair and some long term thinking. Still have the weak quarter ahead of us!
@Papa60613
@hkuppy
We still own it- encourage everyone to do their own work but Kuppy’s analysis was spot on. CEO and management are top notch, own a ton of the company and love doing what they are doing.
Narrative chasing sycophants bereft of any fundamental analysis, tossing up softball questions. Musk setting the stage for a huge earnings miss by blaming everything on macro. $TSLA
Big Shorts and big longs. My conversation with
@Seawolfcap
(Porter Collins) and Vincent Daniel from Seawolf Capital.
With thanks to
@Wellington_Mgmt
and Inflection Point Partners.
Gold hit 1,900!!!- I think we should change Danny’s name to Ace! Sorry you are on the opposite side of Danny’s wrath
@RiskReversal
.
@GuyAdami
,
@Seawolfcap
Gold has acted as a discipline enforcer on profligate government spending for generations. Once the gold standard era was ended in 1971, it needed to be replaced by some other enforcement mechanism to deal with inflation and government deficits.
This was supposed to be done by
Kudos to
@Seawolfcap
- for a trade, he effectively deployed
@dailydirtnap
’s A-hole index and bought
@gnoble79
’s NOPE ETF at peak Twitter hate. It’s an incredible trading tool Jared- thanks
@marketplunger1
I think we should look at 2023 GDP, excluding Taylor Swift concert consumption expenditures- coming from a person with a teenage daughter.
This was a great conversation with
@AlderLaneEggs
,
@Seawolfcap
@kylekazanceo
, and Mark (our CFO) - thanks to Marc for hosting.
If you couldn’t make the call listen to the recording.
I’m not sure I have it in me to keep pumping out these framework threads anymore, but I will drop another historical comparison here for you friends to keep an eye on. 🧵
1/18
Great thread- while I appreciate the buildup in TGA has not caused a liquidity reduction crisis as the funds are coming from the RRP, I fear complacency is shortsighted- my primary concern is structural fiscal policy-
Thread on financial bank plumbing, so that the repo/rate experts can all go nuts and tell me how dumb I am. Let’s go.
So it’s getting interesting in the whole TGA/RRP/bank reserves realm. TGA +$400bln in recent weeks, RRP -$500bln.
1/7
companies issue press releases & include certain words/phrases knowing the algos/HFT world will plug them into their machines: "growth in Adjusted EBITDA" "share buyback" etc.& have become prisoner to the passive (ETF) investment world & with that cater less to active managers
8/
Short sellers are odd people. Most of them are ambitious, driven, antisocial, and single minded. As individuals, they are not very likely to own a Rolex watch or a Presidential springer spaniel or any other symbolic trappings of success; they are likely to have a wry slightly
MacroVoices
@ErikSTownsend
and
@PatrickCeresna
welcome
@LukeGromen
to the show to discuss if the U.S. Dollar is having that "Luke Gromen Moment" he has predicted for years, the stock market, the U.S. fiscal situation, gold and much more.
@TheStalwart
Maybe we can start with a discussion on whether we are properly measuring inflation and the difference between the economists definition of inflation and actual cost of living levels. ‘Inflation being now fully in the past’ is laugh track worthy l.
Balls indeed- as we come up on the 1 year anniversary of certain regional banks blowing up on….asset/liability mismanagement of long duration treasuries. Not surprised- need to find someone to buy coupon treasuries at low yields. H/t
@LukeGromen
Banks have some balls.
We won't participate in U.S. Treasury markets if you don't backstop us AND "permanently exclude on-balance sheet US Treasuries from total leverage exposure". 🙈🙅
I must say
@Integrity4mkts
call on $CVNA is so far the call of the Decade 2020's . Right for the Right reason, never blinked, made a fortune and did his business the right way.. He has my lifetime of respect and very very well done..
Wanted to wait for the 10Q on $TSLA before commenting on the qtr; I'm sure 99% of people won't look through it but it always helps to clarify a few things; First thing that struck me off of the earnings report was
@Seawolfcap
(2-time Olympian) &
@VD718
are back on for another edition of "WAWD" & they never disappoint as they continue to give out winners (longs!)
@OnTheTapePod
;
@Seawolfcap
gives us his rowing insights for the men/women squads in Paris!! & of course we have to discuss $TSLA
How
@FedGuy12
is seeing things:
- The recession doomers need to stop taking their "crazy pills"
- Stocks will "crush" bonds as record fiscal deficits reignite inflation
- Nominal GDP growth will continue to be strong as long as the U.S. government continues to print 2
BEAT THE PODS: A 7-POINT RECIPE FOR SINGLE MANAGERS
There has been some fun discussion here recently about the trend from single manager hedge funds (SMs) to multi-manager hedge funds (MMs or "pods"). Which is very sensical after a year like 2022 where there was a big
Ps - I will give you guys a 1999-2002 chart of Juniper so you know what I am talking about. This not only happened, it happened to more names than I can remember.
BEWARE MAX STUPID guys, I am telling you the odds are higher than you think that we go full stupid in a few corners
@MacroAlf
So far, Fed’s words are not scaring markets and given their track record, why should they. If they truly want to send markets a message, start actually draining the balance sheet. Doubt they will do that.
Record holiday spending: good news, just one problem: consumers used buy-now-pay-later schemes to spend $7.3BN from Nov. 1 to Nov. 26, up 14% from a year ago, per Adobe
These are basically vendor/3rd party financing programs which don't show up on already maxed out credit cards
Great interview-Thankful for Charlie providing color on one of the more powerful movers of near term markets, vol targeting institutions- In my view, it’s a shame these massive institutions are allowed to lever themselves as much as they do- unproductive use of capital
MacroVoices
@ErikSTownsend
and
@PatrickCeresna
welcome Nomura's Charlie McElligott to the show to discuss how prior tightening cycles have played out in markets and his prognostications for what present Federal Reserve policy will mean for the markets.
@value_invest12
Stock was due for a squeeze on any ‘good’ news. EBITDA is a useful metric but ignoring interest expense on a highly levered company is poor analysis. Then again, in a narrative driven market, I guess you have to try to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
I think he might want to guest host the SNL Christmas episode before he goes that route. Based on how he is treated by certain politicians and the media, it’s probably not as far fetched as it seems.
Hey
@SBF_FTX
why don’t you just stage a car accident and claim amnesia? That actually would be more believable than this song and dance you are doing now.