Yearly Archives: 2017

USA vs CHINA – BBC 2016 (Must View)

Things are starting to heat up in the Taiwan Straight and only to get hotter under the Trump Administration.  This BBC video is great background. China’s foreign ministry hit back in a statement advising Trump, a billionaire property tycoon who … Continue reading

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Watch This Space: Oat-Bund Spread

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TOTD: Who Owns The Treasury Market?

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Cheap Big Macs Around the World

Turkey, the UK , and Mexico (“undervalued by a whacking 55.9% against the greenback”) have gotten much cheaper over the past year. The Big Mac index is built on the idea of purchasing-power parity, the theory that in the long … Continue reading

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US Debt Growth By Sector

Note that the post-crisis total debt growth in the U.S. is just a little more than half the 23-year annual average before the crisis,  a decline from an average annual growth rate of 7.7 percent to 4.3 percent.  Household debt … Continue reading

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How Big Are The Emerging Markets?

We put together a nice table and some charts of the relative size of emerging market (EM) economies as a percent of World GDP and total EM GDP based on regions.  The data are from the IMF’s October 2016 World … Continue reading

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QOTD: Did Sabermetrics Predict Trump In 2001?

A voting structure like this is an open invitation to an eccentric outcome. If the United States were to use a system like this to elect the President, the absolutely certain result would be that, within a few elections, someone … Continue reading

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U.S. Bank Asset and Liability Growth

An addendum to our latest post on the expected bank credit-led boom.   Here is the latest data commercial bank asset growth from the Fed as of January 6, 2017.    

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U.S. Banks Primed And Ready To Roll – Expect the Unexpected

We’ve been busy crunching numbers on the consolidated balance sheet of U.S.-chartered depository institutions and comparing their mix of assets relative to their pre-crisis levels. The large U.S. banks begin reporting earnings on Friday. The Coming Credit Led Expansion Our … Continue reading

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COTD: U.S. Job Killers, You Decide

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