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Wait A Sec, That’s Not Really An *RMB* Liquidity Pool…

By |2022-06-27T20:25:13-04:00June 27th, 2022|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Ben Bernanke once admitted how the job of the post-truth “central banker” is to try to convince the market to do your work for you. What he didn’t say was that this was the only prayer officials had for any success. Because if the market ever decided that talk wasn’t enough, only real money in hand would do, everyone’d be [...]

Angry April TIC Zeroed In On China’s CNY and Japan’s JPY

By |2022-06-19T00:25:19-04:00June 19th, 2022|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

If the March gasoline/oil spike hit a weak global economy really hard and caused what more and more looks like a recessionary shock, a(n un)healthy part of it was the acceleration of Euro$ #5 concurrently rippling through the global reserve system. This much was apparent right from the start, with financial markets gone haywire three months ago (mid-March seasonal bottleneck), [...]

Follow China’s True Line

By |2022-05-31T19:31:57-04:00May 31st, 2022|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

It’s a broken a record, the macro stylus stuck unable to move on, just skipping and repeating the same spot on the vinyl. Since Xi Jinping’s lockdowns broke it, as it’s said, when Xi is satisfied there’s zero COVID he’ll release the restrictions and that will fix everything. The economy will go right back to good, like flipping a switch.Where [...]

Xi’s National Security ‘Stimulus’ Reaches The People’s Bank of China

By |2022-05-20T17:37:15-04:00May 20th, 2022|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Xi Jinping’s true aim, in my view, isn’t to severely limit the spread of the coronavirus, seeking its ultimate eradication, rather to curtail dissent particularly any views contrary to his handling of China’s increasingly desperate economy. Mao’s Xi’s purpose is to completely eliminate all opposition. This intentional security policy has now been extended to the People’s Bank of China itself. [...]

Synchronized Not Coronavirus

By |2022-05-17T17:55:34-04:00May 17th, 2022|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

There is an understandable tendency to just write off this weekend’s disastrous Chinese data as nothing more than pandemic politics. After all, it has been Emperor Xi’s harsh lockdowns spreading like wildfire across China rather than any disease (why it has been this way, that’s another Mao-tter). Open the cities back up, as many are doing right now, the world [...]

Synchronizing Chinese Prices (and consequences)

By |2022-05-12T20:28:47-04:00May 12th, 2022|Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

It isn’t just the vast difference between Chinese consumer prices and those in the US or Europe, China’s CPI has been categorically distinct from China’s PPI, too. That distance hints at the real problem which the whole is just now beginning to confront, having been lulled into an inflationary illusion made up from all these things.To start with, yesterday China’s [...]

Industrial Synchronized Demand

By |2022-05-10T20:05:48-04:00May 10th, 2022|Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Are the industrial commodities starting to get a whiff of demand side rejection? Short run trends suggest that this could be the case. From copper to iron and the highest (formerly) of the high flyers, aluminum, this particular group has been exhibiting a rather synchronized setback going back to the end of March, start of April.This despite supply bottlenecks and [...]

Why CNY DOWN = BAD (Part 3) For Everyone

By |2022-05-09T17:44:02-04:00May 9th, 2022|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

This is basically a rhetorical question drawn from a generally rhetorical exercise. We’ll never know for sure, this is about China, after all. Transparency is a Western obsession and a curse for the committed Communists. Particularly when the Party of “Science” starts to lose control of the situation when such a possibility has been treated as pure blasphemy.Did the Chinese [...]

CNY’s Drop Wasn’t ‘Devaluation’ in ’15 nor ’18, and It Isn’t ‘Devaluation’ Now

By |2022-04-25T17:49:34-04:00April 25th, 2022|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

For one thing, that whole Bretton Woods 3 thing is really off to an interesting start. And by interesting, I mean predictably backward. According to its loud and leading proponent, China’s yuan was supposed to be ascending while the dollar sank, its first step toward what many still claim will end up in some biblical-like abyss. Instead, CNY is doing [...]

I’m ‘Officially’ Calling It: Euro$ #5

By |2022-04-22T16:46:23-04:00April 22nd, 2022|Bonds, Currencies, Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

This must be what the NBER feels like. That group of academic Economists simply took up the job of “declaring” each end of the business cycle. No one seems to have asked them to, nor was there any mandate official or otherwise. Sensing the opportunity, believing the job in keeping with the organization’s competence, or self-assessment of it, the NBER [...]

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