Upgraded to Premium+ and still can't get access to Grok3...what's going on? never had such an experience before, money out and begging for goods. #Grok3
@HannoLustig@IvanWerning@sc_cath@dhzecon I guess it’s the bonds like munis that makes the difference between ultra wealth and middle class. By the way, is equity part of your duration calculation?
@IvanWerning@sc_cath@dhzecon@IvanWerning: here's a plot of the duration of US households portfolios against wealth percentile. Much more duration in right tail.
I feel sorry for you guys these days. Back then, Neil Wallace and I took this equation from Cagan, plugged in rational expectations, and got a paper in Econometrica. (Tom Sargent, keynote address at Carnegie Rochester 2023 conference)
Credit Default Swaps (CDS).
Lots of attention on US Sov CDS given the debt ceiling. 1Y has traded higher than in the 2011 episode.
CDS at the best of times is a bad market. DM sov CDS is even worse.
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Junk bond yields are materially diverging from overall equity volatility, which appears to be unreasonably suppressed.
To put this into perspective, the last time junk bonds yielded near the current levels, the VIX was hovering around 50.
Today, equity volatility is at the same level as it was at the height of the S&P 500 in December 2021.
High-yield bonds are not the only instruments presenting this issue.
Investment-grade bond yields are also elevated and completely disconnected from VIX levels, which are now at 2-year lows.
Assessing the relevance of historical events, the current high multiples in US equity markets have not yet factored in the potential impact of a contracting economy and a cost of capital that exceeds the historical average.
Hence, the existing low volatility among overall stocks is unwarranted and poised to rise significantly.
Why is everyone focused on flows to money market funds, when the true driver of the deposit crisis is the decline in broad money?
The root cause is MONETARY policy, not consumer behavior and central banks are yet to admit to it.
More here -> https://t.co/QKpJCwoMHb
This Wednesday - the day of the dovish US CPI print - we recorded a 4-sigma inflow into EM, the biggest one day inflow since the post-COVID recovery in 2020. Fear of out-of-control US inflation had been hanging over markets. That fear is ending. Very bullish for EM. @econchart
The year to Dec. 2022 is the first time since COVID that ECB buying (blue) hasn't fully funded Spain's debt issuance. We've long argued Spain can stand on its own two feet - no need for ECB support - with plenty of demand in private markets. It's good to see that process start...