This is a requirement.
Being considerate means allowing other people to mostly do what they want, so long as it is consistent with our principles, policies, and the law. It also means being willing to put others ahead of your own desires. If the people on both sides of an argument approach their disagreements in this way, we will have many fewer disputes about who is offending whom. #principleoftheday
@fergalpha Don't forget shrinkflation is also smoke and mirrors. Every time I buy orange juice the containers are 4 oz smaller but the same price. Used to be 64 Oz, then 58, then 52, then 48, now they're 42 Oz.
Do we have a regime of "fiscal dominance" today? Let's look at the evidence.
First, 2022 calls this into question. Inflation hit 9% and after the Fed raised rates it fell as low as 2.3%. Hiking clearly didn't add to inflation then, but the term appears to have survived because inflation remained a little stickier than the Fed expected.
So, has the story changed? Is the cumulative effect of interest payments adding significantly to aggregate demand? $1.3T in annual interest sounds huge. The math says otherwise.
Strip out the interest the government pays its own trust funds and you're at about $1.15T. Roughly 30% of that goes to foreigners and 15% to the Fed. So about 55% goes to domestic holders, and much of that is banks, funds, pensions and wealthy investors who don't spend much of it.
The research on stimulus checks finds people spend about 22 to 35 cents of each dollar, and that's for small windfalls that mostly hit households who need the cash. Interest income goes to people who don't. It goes mostly to people like me and I don't spend one single cent of the interest income I get in my brokerage account from things like Tbills. But let's be generous and assume every domestic holder spends 35%. That's about 19% of total interest, or roughly $220B of spending.
Here's where the story falls apart. Inflation isn't about levels. It's about changes. Interest payments rose about $110B this year. At that same generous rate, that's about $21B of new demand in a $31T economy. That is 0.07% of GDP.
That's the aggregate demand side of the equation and it's BEFORE counting the drag higher rates put on borrowing, real estate, etc. If you back out that effect the net impact of higher rates is very clearly negative in this sort of environment. Just imagine for a second how high inflation would be if rates were 0% and everyone was refinancing and buying homes. Inflation would be on fire in that environment because private residential investment would be booming and shelter prices would be surging again.
So we aren't in an era of "fiscal dominance." We're in an era of fiscal influence. Deficits are keeping inflation higher than it otherwise would be, but restrictive rates are still a net drag on demand, mainly by making borrowing more expensive and keeping the housing market in a sustained stagnation.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
This retard Bessent (who unfollowed me) can't hid his Orwellian "stabilize" spin: gas at the pump up ~50% since Trump 2 came to office.
@SecScottBessent, you idiot, who are you bullshitting?
Recentemente, o bilionário Peter Thiel investiu em uma startup que coloca coleiras inteligentes em vacas.
Parece piada, mas a empresa já vale mais de US$ 2 bilhões.
Funciona assim: o pecuarista desenha uma cerca virtual pelo celular e o GPS da coleira mantém cada animal dentro da área definida. Quando a vaca se aproxima do limite, recebe um sinal sonoro e uma leve vibração indicando para onde deve voltar. Em poucos dias, ela aprende.
Na prática, o pecuarista consegue mover o rebanho inteiro arrastando uma linha na tela. Sem porteiras, quilômetros de arame ou a necessidade de percorrer o campo.
Mas a parte mais valiosa não é a cerca.
Enquanto o gado pasta, o sistema registra cinco leituras por segundo de cada animal, acompanhando movimento, comportamento e condição física.
Com esses dados, a IA consegue identificar sinais de doenças, período fértil e até prever partos antes que isso seja percebido por alguém no campo.
O nome da IA é Cowgorithm. Ela foi treinada com mais de 7 bilhões de horas de comportamento real de vacas.
Para um leigo, o modelo de negócios parece ser apenas as coleiras. Mas, na realidade, são os dados.
Hoje, mais de 1 milhão de animais usam a tecnologia, por um custo de cerca de US$ 5 a US$ 8 por vaca por mês.
O Brasil tem um dos maiores rebanhos bovinos do mundo, com mais de 200 milhões de cabeças, e boa parte do setor ainda opera com métodos tradicionais.
É uma tecnologia com espaço enorme para crescer por aqui!
A wonderful life lesson from Charlie Munger:
“Crooks, crazies, egomaniacs, people full of resentment, people full of self-pity, people who feel like victims … avoid them like the plague.”
First, gold isn't a price deflator. The price of gold doesn't accurately reflect the cost of living because its demand is driven largely by things other than consumption (like central bank demand for example).
Second, that isn't the "logic" at all unless you are an MMT clown. We have the most productive and innovative private sector that has ever existed in human history. That's the only reason we can afford such a large govt. Even if you subtract the entire federal debt from household net worth it is still a whopping 160 TRILLION.
The idea that the wealthiest economy in human history somehow has a bankrupt govt is preposterous. You could build this narrative better around almost any other country in the world.
The inflation debate is an interrelated topic, but isn't reflective of some fiscal problem. The reason the US govt spends so much is because we have gigantic wealth that isn't equally distributed so the bottom 50% rely heavily on the govt just to survive. That isn't a solvency or hyperinflation risk. It's a tradeoff for living in an amazingly wealthy economy with inequality.
But debt to assets has its own problem:
A big part of it is nonsensical, because US govt debt is household asset
So the more in debt the govt is, the more assets the private sector has
By this logic, no one needs to work, the govt just needs to borrow and have the Fed and banks create money to buy and hold that govt debt as “assets” in ever greater amounts and we can live forevermore in ever-rising prosperity
This is what John Law proposed in France, & the South Sea bubble did in England. It was secularly inflationary then and it is secularly inflationary now
That’s why home prices in the US are at ATH’s in USD but 45 year lows in gold terms, & why stock prices are still below 2000 highs in gold terms
@cullenroche
Master These 36 Idioms!
1. Break the ice → Start talking
2. Piece of cake → Very easy
3. Spill the beans → Reveal a secret
4. Hit the sack → Go to bed
5. Get cold feet → Feel nervous
6. Under the weather → Feel sick
7. Out of the blue → Unexpectedly
8. In hot water → In trouble
9. Call it a day → Stop working
10. Miss the boat → Miss a chance
11. On cloud nine → Very happy
12. Bite the bullet → Face difficulty
13. Go the extra mile → Try harder
14. Pull someone’s leg → Joke
15. Keep an eye on → Watch
16. Hang in there → Don’t give up
17. Cut corners → Do cheaply
18. See eye to eye → Agree
19. Hit the nail on the head → Be exactly right
20. Rain cats and dogs → Rain heavily
21. Burn the midnight oil → Work late
22. Make ends meet → Manage money
23. Add fuel to the fire → Make worse
24. Barking up the wrong tree → Blame wrongly
25. Back to square one → Start again
26. Cost an arm and a leg → Very expensive
27. Let the cat out of the bag → Reveal a secret
28. A dime a dozen → Very common
29. Go with the flow → Stay flexible
30. Speak of the devil → Person appears
31. Take it easy → Relax
32. Break a leg → Good luck
33. Once in a blue moon → Rarely
34. The ball is in your court → Your decision
35. Face the music → Accept consequences
36. Jump the gun → Act too soon
@EricLDaugh He drove to the tarmac for someone he was calling "boxed" and "studied" us in the same week. Servicemembers lining the walkway too, that's a full production for a guy he says he doesn't trust
If you don't mind being wrong on the way to being right you'll learn a lot--and increase your effectiveness.
But if you can't tolerate being wrong, you won't grow, you'll make yourself and everyone around you miserable, and your work environment will be marked by petty backbiting and malevolent barbs rather than by a healthy, honest search for truth. #principleoftheday
How it started (left): "The Debasement Trade is Unraveling and Kevin Warsh is One Big Reason" - Bloomberg, 6/24/26
How it's going (right): BTC up 41% since, gold up 9% since.
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