Dissecting The ‘Incredible’ Junk Rally And The Case For A 24-Pound Bucket Of Mac-&-Cheese
Frantic rallies, tactical bounces and out of stock emergency hedges.
Frantic rallies, tactical bounces and out of stock emergency hedges.
Remember: anything is better than Larry Kudlow’s “models”.
Who needs “facts”?
“I’m pretty sure this is a bear market.”
It’s “barely started”.
Putting some nuance on Jim’s “fragility” warning and “chasing tail” with Goldman.
“Although this negative correlation might not seem like a big deal, the implications from this relationship have been enormous.”
“Stay out of investment grade bonds.”
“For financial journalists, pinpointing the source of the next meltdown is no easy task. The ones who did so pre-2008Â were few.”
Amid the storm, there’s one place where volatility isn’t showing up…
Yes, it’s going to crack, but where first?
We haven’t reached the pain threshold.
Sonny on the causeway and such.
And at the heart of it all…
Prepare to be harangued with tales of international conspiracies from newly-minted Sultan Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan.Â
“Whichever reason you are partial to, at least you now have a good list of excuses to pick from as to why IG is trading so badly.”
“… it fills us with a lot of fear [and] not just because many central banks would be relatively constrained in their ability to cut rates after their big post-GFC easing.”
“Something unusual is happening.”
Douglas Adams time.
“Between the March 2009 bottom and the January 2018 peak, of course, they were essentially buying the dips—-about 50 of them with material dimension. The short-run narrative constantly changed—low interest rates, escape velocity ahead, synchronous global reflation, Goldilocks once more—-but the mechanic was always the same.”
“The strategy almost looks foolproof on paper.  Yet like most things in the markets, nothing lasts forever.”
“The single most important price in all of capitalism is the interest rate—-and at all points on the maturity curve. And the single most important truth about honest interest rates is that they must be discovered by markets, not imposed by the state.”
“There had been a lot of complacency built up in markets over a long time”…
“The national consultation and the release of the results are the latest elements of a massive ongoing propaganda campaign funded by Hungarian taxpayers to benefit a deeply corrupt government seeking to deflect attention from its failure to fulfill Hungarians’ legitimate aspirations, particularly in education and health care.”
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