It’s Michael Burry type stuff in SG right now and when the bubble finally pops it’s going to be generational trauma
Local wages can’t support local house prices
The region can’t support local wages
Higher SGD makes both worse
Houses aren’t for living
SGD isn’t for spending
This is our biggest category of imports from China, so I think it's probably right to think of it as a pretty significant signal of de-escalation rather than a narrow carve-out.
Capital Economics: if today's announcements are implemented, the effective US tariff rate will shoot straight past the Smoot-Hawley levels of the 1930s.
"The effective tariff rate on all imports will rise from 2.3% last year to around 26%, leaving it at a 131-year high"
Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us.
So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is.
What puzzles me the most while NASDAQ while selling off was that the idea of one tech company succeeding does not equate to the success of the group. Make your bets on the winner or bet on the losers (most of them eventually). Bet against tech stocks but embrace innovation still.
Long 10Y bond short SPX due to bond yield>SPX forward earnings. Simple trade but I think it’s going to work out well.
ZN Futures price now 108’260 sept contract
ES futures price now 5273 sept contract
The silliest thing I heard the past 2 weeks in Macro - theres a chance the fed will hike. Sure that was slightly priced in the market but come on. The Fed losses all credibility there if it can even come out and say its considering a hike in rates.
Reason #3 Why I would make a terrible PM
Shorting gold and doing a carry trade for FX (long high interest yielding currencies, shorting low ones) made so much sense as rates went up. Carry went well but holy crap gold basically went to infinity