BREAKING: Meta $META has announced a new undersea cable connecting the U.S. and France
Its cable, called "Petal", will carry 1 petabit per second, 2X the capacity of today's most advanced transoceanic cables
Meta is expecting it to enter service in 2029
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JK, there are a few others too:
Mon: 13-Wk ($92B) and 26-Wk ($79B) Bill auctions
Tue: 20-Yr auction ($13B), 6-Wk Bill auction ($75B)
Wed: UK Inflation, U.S. Retail Sales, FOMC
Thu: #BoE Decision, 10-Yr TIPS ($19B)
Fri: #BoJ Decision
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Shipping a 40 foot container cost $1,420 in 2019. Two years later it hit $10,377.
James, CEO of Zest, lived through it. He asked us to list container freight, so he could hedge the thing that nearly took him out the first time.
Big companies have had freight derivatives for decades. Now a tea company with 20 employees does too.
Increasing rates will do nothing to the inflation picture without the commensurate reduction in liquidity conditions and monetary aggregates.
Now we have money supply shrinking but from insane levels. I fear that we are on track to panic hike a little too late, hope I'm wrong.
You know how idiots still claim Fed did a great job in the run-up to this fuckery based on - insert stupid opinions - well, let’s settle this with facts. This hiking cycle is like no other. Fed will end-up doing 600 bp in 300 days and have not moved inflation needle yet.
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Why is this important? because it explains most of the extreme problems facing the world today. If you comb through the Hancock papers, what comes out is a press that was hungry for this, creating a favorable climate. Same applies to monetary policy. Loud voices of chaos.
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