Kuroda Shrugs, Twitter Lampoons Sweden, Deutsche Crumbles: Welcome To Thursday
Ok, so as detailed earlier this morning, the first thing you should note about the
Ok, so as detailed earlier this morning, the first thing you should note about the
“It doesn’t really matter. For a while, investors will assume the rot spreads deeper than just one company. The entire Canadian real estate sector will now be guilty until proven innocent.”
Today’s word is “bigly.” No wait, “phenomenal.” No wait, “massive.” Yeah, that’s it. “Massive.” All
“During the past five years, May has been the worst month, on average, for EM FX. I remain a structural long-term bull on emerging markets, but the next month could see a painful cleanout of complacent positioning.”
Welcome to the first quarter of the rest of your life. Q2 marks markets’ first
“Is this GOP Congress an opposition party or a governing party?”
On Saturday, I brought you “3 Dramatic Charts Show The ‘Collapse’ Of Global Political Order.”
“At the same time, tariffs would weigh on US growth. If we assume that Mexico and China retaliate with equivalent tariffs, this would substantially reduce demand for US exports, depressing US GDP by around 0.7pp by 2019. In fact, tariffs would likely hit US GDP so sharply that the Federal Reserve would be prompted to reduce interest rates to cushion the blow—despite an increase in inflation.”
Given the distinct possibility that global trade and commerce is about to be completely upended by an unhinged real estate developer with delusions of grandeur and his cabinet of billionaires, it isn’t any wonder that when Goldman asked fund managers what they were concerned about, geopolitics and global trade topped the list.
On Monday evening I said I’d likely find myself talking about the dollar again first thing
“Investors appear to be struggling to reconcile the policies of President-Elect Donald Trump with those of candidate Donald Trump”…
“Instead of spending its precious reserves to defend the peso, Mexico should just buy Twitter Inc. — at a cost of about $12 billion — and immediately shut it down.” They’ve got the money so what the hell, right?
“If investors were left disappointed on details relevant to the economy and policies, it’s because no one raised the issues in any substantive way.”
“Trade has never dominated politics in the way it has this year”…
Look out, it’s a Twitter tape bomb!
When we think about Donald Trump and his protectionist trade proposals, it’s important to remember
That’s right folks, Donald Trump is President. To be sure, no one really thought this was possible.
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