@dampedspring Treasury is buying back debt at a substantial discount to its original face value. They are expanding its role as a recurring buyer of less liquid government securities.
@Hedgeye The U.S. $ might be the most important global transmission mechanism. But the direction of the $ alone is not enough. The source of the $ movement determines if cross-asset correlations help you or hurt you. The distinction between $ strength and $ funding stress is essential.
@LukeGromen If rates go toward 8%+ & labor weakens & listings increase, the probability of a nominal correction rises. If rates are high because nominal GDP, wages, rents, & inflation all rise, national nominal home prices may remain resilient, while housing produces poor or neg real returns
@LukeGromen This is a plausible bullish setup for GDX & selected producers. The next question is whether crude & mine-level operating costs actually decline? The World Gold Council reports that average gold miner all-in sustaining costs at $1,785 per oz in Q1 2026, up 16% year over year.
@LukeGromen@dotkrueger 1M BTC in 15 years is plausible if adoption, institutional reserves, and BTC-backed credit keep growing while supply stays fixed. The bigger risk is synthetic claims absorbing demand without forcing spot BTC purchases.
@LukeGromen@dotkrueger Strategy style digital credit buys real BTC and reduces float. โCredit goldโ created paper claims without equivalent physical buying. The real BTC risk is unbacked synthetic claims that satisfy demand without spot purchases.
USAโs answer to debt is not austerity, default or printing money. It is to redesign the financial system so that an ever larger domestic & global monetary network is structurally required to hold dollar liabilities while productivity, inflation and nominal GDP slowly depreciate.
โItโs said by politicians and pundits that prediction markets are gambling markets, that gamblers insufficiently sated by sports gambling are moving into the seemingly quotidian. This is a mistaken view. Juliano instructs on the matter.โ
New Jersey trucker Nick Juliano is using Kalshi to insure his small business against rising gas prices.
Small businesses make decisions about inventory, staffing, and costs with far less information than large companies.
Prediction markets give them another signal about what may happen next, and it's why Juliano is using them to offset fueling costs.
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@DariusDale42 From the inner city, where survival was the first education and Wall Street felt light years away. Some of us, walked in the unknown, learned the game, mastered the environment, and turned a narrow opening into a life built on vision, nerve, timing, and relentless ascent. ๐ซก
@biancoresearch The system becomes dangerous when the rate of deterioration in debt-service dynamics outruns the economyโs shock absorbers. AI can be fiscally and inflationarily destabilizing during the bridge period even if it is enormously productivity-enhancing in the long run.
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@jvisserlabs The bond market is repricing inflation, Fed policy, fiscal supply and the real cost of capital. The credit markets & earnings will tell us which side actually wins.
Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractals, lecturing at MIT on how markets really move:
"the models Wall Street runs on assume the market is mild. it is wild. a once in a century crash shows up every few years, and the bell curve never sees it coming."
he invented fractals, then turned them on the market and found the truth nobody wanted. price moves are not smooth. they are rough at every scale, and that roughness has fat tails the Gaussian pretends do not exist.
Black-Scholes, value at risk, most of modern risk management, all assume mild randomness. Mandelbrot showed the real thing is wild. a handful of days decide decades of returns, and those days are far more likely than the math admits.
LTCM ran the mild model. it was built by Nobel laureates. the wild day came, the one the bell curve called impossible, and the fund was gone in weeks.
the market is not a coin flip with small wiggles. it is a fractal, and its worst day is always bigger and closer than your model believes.
the risk that ends you is the one your bell curve rounded to zero. Mandelbrot spent his life pointing straight at it.