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This isn't good. One measure of U.S. manufacturing just slid into contraction for the first time in 3 years.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Multiple respondents in the ISM survey warned about the impact of tariffs and the trade war. None of the spotlighted comments mentioned the Fed as a contributor to the slowdown. instituteforsupplymanagement.org/ismreport/mfgr…
Treasury yields are tanking again. 10-year down to 1.44% after that ugly ISM report. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Dow's off over 400 points bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
It's not just the US seeing manufacturing slump.

Europe, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan etc. all registering readings in negative territory bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Another grim chart. The number of U.S. manufacturers reporting declining orders just surged at its fastest rate since October 2008. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Random question for people who worry that the Fed could "run out of bullets" because the policy rate is already fairly close to zero.

Couldn't the Fed not stimulate further by saying something like "We're never going to hike again until the unemployment rate falls below 2.5%"?
Seems like there's a virtually unlimited number of forward guidance approaches that could be powerful and blunt?

"We're not going to worry about inflation until we see 6 prints in a row of core CPI over 3%." That's another one. Seems like there's plenty of bullets.
I've always thought that, in retrospect, in 2010 after the Fed was at zero, the Fed should've just announced a multi-year vacation. No meetings, with the message that they'd check in again in 2015.
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Ok, I'll probably regret this, but given the poll results, I'm going to do a thread on why the inversion of the yield curve is seen as a potentially ominous sign and harbinger of eventual recession.
(Warning: I'm also going to make a few oversimplifications that bond market traders and MMT folks probably won't like, but such is life)
Ok, so here goes.

As you may have heard, the U.S. borrows a lot of money in the form of bond, which we refer to as Treasuries.

Treasuries are considered to be among the safest financial assets that exist in the world.
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I've been wondering why people always bring up Beyond Meat when they rage about a Fed-driven bubble.

I think I figured out why the company makes people so angry. From today's @Markets newsletter. link.mail.bloombergbusiness.com/join/4wm/marke…
@markets Basically, there's a number of Fed haters who also think that climate change is a stalking horse for communism, and that meat consumption is an essential part of being manly. So $BYND, with its high share price, hits the trifecta of things that trigger people.
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