War Games: Zoltan Pozsar And The Echo Chamber
“Looks like the CIA are avid readers of Zoltan Pozsar.” That’s a real quote from
“Looks like the CIA are avid readers of Zoltan Pozsar.” That’s a real quote from
“After all, I am just a ‘plumber,’ not a geostrategic expert.” So said Zoltan Pozsar,
Over the past several days, I’ve fielded a number of reader emails about a discussion,
Those calling for a quick return to 2% inflation in advanced economies are “naively optimistic.”
“If there is trust, trade works. If trust is gone, it doesn’t.” So said Zoltan
“Welcome to the war economy, where heads of state matter more than heads of central
A fairy tale. That’s what I called Zoltan Pozsar’s Bretton Woods III framework earlier this
Zoltan Pozsar scarcely needs to exalt himself. The financial media does that for him. In
“Anyone in the commodities world is experiencing a perfect storm as correlations suddenly shot to
“A wise guy’s always right,” Al Pacino’s Lefty Ruggiero told Johnny Depp’s Donnie Brasco, during
“We need a Volcker moment,” Zoltan Pozsar declared, in a positively rollicking note published February
“If the Fed is backstopping the credit market, why wouldn’t it backstop its natural habitat?”
“Money is hierarchical…”
“Carry makes the world go round and central banks will have to backstop the shadow banking system – yet again.”
“Dollar funding is always the orphaned child of crises”.
“Whenever a novice trader asks me where to start learning, the first thing I tell them is to get a Twitter account”.
“If carry makes the world go ‘round, and reserves make carry possible the day we run out of reserves would be the day when the world would stop spinning”.
Rabobank’s Michael Every is having none of it. By “it,” I mean any variation on
Zoltan Pozsar has a subtle suggestion for those attempting to forecast inflation: Consider the possibility
Jerome Powell is going to “keep pushing” until US inflation abates in “a clear and
“Pozsar proceeded to speculate on a tsunami of margin calls for market participants long physical
“If a bank closes a $200 billion balance sheet on Friday and doesn’t open on
Zoltan Pozsar took a break this week from assessing every conceivable angle of Fed balance
“You asked about year-end”.
There’s a bull market in geopolitical counter-narrative. A raging, raging bull market. It’s been going
If there’s anything that frustrates me about opining on macro, markets and policy on a
Lots of aggressive tweets with little to show for it. Story of our time, right?
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