@biancoresearch A cut or two is manageable. What is rare is the fed not taking the elevator down. So, though it might be best to cut and pause, history doesn’t suggest that will happen. But then again there hasn’t been this much pent up resilience in prior rate cut reactions. No thin ice yet
@egfalken@MebFaber@nntaleb True that. While woefully inaccurate as a prediction, it does at least give you a reasonable approximation of the landscape in which outcomes will be observed. When you over-apply it to a need for accuracy, trouble.
@barryknapp Sounds like something Vicini would say in The Princess Bride. But seriously absent bank reserve risks, the fed should leave the long end alone and work down its balance sheet. Focus on the front end. MAKE THE CURVE STEEP AGAIN. That’s on my red hat.
@tomkeene No wonder we have inflation. None of those dips were paved over with stimulus like the current one and we have gained all jobs back and more. fantastic chart! thanks for sharing.
@SMB_Attorney Experience economy. It’s why swift tickets are a grand. Also there are more resorts in the alps than there are in Colorado/ square mile so perhaps more competition.
@MebFaber Freedom premium should win over the long run. China has to embrace it in a big way if it wants to win this bet over the time period. Also faces the headwinds of bad demographics.
Banks are pocketing real money by borrowing money from the Fed's newest backstop facility, which charges a lower rate, and then parking it at another unit of the Fed, which pays higher interest. Banks are borrowing record amounts from this new facility. https://t.co/0Yt4STWbb9
@LizAnnSonders Wouldn't banks use this anytime they need to convert a holding that can be pledged into cash? ie anytime a customer wants a loan or they want to withdraw money?