Think about what that means.
A hedge fund may be earning a tiny spread between a Treasury and its futures contract. To make that tiny spread worthwhile, it uses enormous leverage.
less Fed pressure, not cheap capital
FACT — Oct2: Sep. payrolls increased only 29,000, unemployment 4.2%, wage growth slowed to 3.0% yoy, and Jul/Aug payrolls revised v by combined 60k. Healthcare + 17k jobs; construction - 11k; manufacturing - 9k; finactivities - 7k
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Expensive capital → marginal capacity delayed → existing productive assets gain scarcity value.
This still favors operating infrastructure, industrial maintenance, refining/logistics and well-funded AI infrastructure over businesses dependent on repeated equity issuance
@MarcoFoster_@ZohranKMamdani it's not the governments job to deliver a dignified life. the governments job is to protect the environments that those live in providing citizens THEMSELVES to pursue a dignified life. governments do not provide your self worth. it's ridiculous
household spending is steady and strong. Higher demand is keeping inflation sticky. which, if we remember before trump, powell said it would be somewhat the norm. then trump came in and said it wasn't and everyone became big mad.