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Sep 4, 2020 12 tweets 3 min read Read on X
1) Our first virtual Salon may not have had the delightful food and drinks of past dinners but it had the same distinctive style and ground rules (one chart, no social sharing, trolling or showing off). 👇 stray-reflections.com/article/148/Gl…
2) The most dangerous asset you can have in a portfolio is the 30-year Treasury…  

But so far, no one is worried because the last 10 years of QE didn’t create inflation.

But what if there is actually a change in monetary regime?
3) Pandemics have a way of shifting the course of history, and not always in a manner immediately evident.

We’ve crossed some chasm by directly giving money to people. stray-reflections.com/article/149/Cr…
4) For more than a decade, investors have questioned the durability of the European project.

But landmark EU budget deal reached by the European Council on July 21 should put an end to that.
5) We have reached the climax of Euroscepticism.

We could start to see risk premia compress across European assets. European banks, senior subordinated debt, CoCo bonds could all do well. stray-reflections.com/article/150/Th…
6) “When the US got medical supplies shipped in during the height of the pandemic from China and Russia, that sort of felt like a poignant moment for what may be the reversing of American exceptionalism.”
7) But it would be wrong to turn bearish on US stocks if American exceptionalism has indeed come to an end.

It will get priced through a weaker dollar while stocks counterintuitively zoom higher.
8) The election will be decided by the trend of Covid cases and the economy. Both trends are supportive of Trump at the moment. stray-reflections.com/article/151/Co…
9) The ingredients for “creating an incredible soup for a risky asset bubble” exist.
10) All the levers of risk taking are going to get yanked by the collective pension funds of the world to meet their return requirements. stray-reflections.com/article/152/Th…
11) This enormous tailwind will join the other tailwinds of central banks’ new inflation policies and fiscal “MMT” type financial relief programs.
12) Could we be in for an inflationary boom, with pension funds chasing assets, with governments around the world searching for ways to put money in the hands of the people, and shall it be on the backs of a declining dollar with the end of American Exceptionalism?

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Jun 27, 2023
1) There are times when you learn something that explains everything.

While manufacturing activity is acutely sensitive to business cycles, did you know that services GDP did not shrink from one year to the next between the Korean war and the Great Recession?

That was a period… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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The ISM manufacturing PMI is below the 50-point threshold, consistent with the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
3) We are in a period very much like those ten recessions between 1950 and 2007, which saw manufacturing contract but services continue to expand.

This is an economic recession without a labor market recession. 

Are we going to see the labor market crack?

Is the recession… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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1) If you are waiting for a recession or trying to figure out why the US economy has not yet entered a recession...

What if I told you something else is going on? 🧵
2) Historically, manufacturing has been acutely sensitive to business cycles.

Services GDP has not really shrunk from one year to the next from the Korean war until the Great Recession. That was a period encompassing 10 recessions.
3) Monthly business surveys show manufacturing has been contracting since November, and the downturn is confirmed by falls in container freight, diesel consumption, and industrial electricity sales.
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1) I didn’t think it was possible, but I returned from my New York trip even more bullish.

I hosted a breakfast with long/short managers, a dinner with a younger group of CIOs and portfolio managers, and met one-on-one with various investors.

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2) The macro folks are worried about rates volatility, the contraction in money supply, and tightening lending standards. 

The equity guys are puzzled by the resilient earnings season and stock market going up despite bad breadth.

The credit investors are surprisingly not as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
3) Could it be the popularity of private credit is more of a business development opportunity than an investing one?
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1) “What’s your dream?”

My friend’s question surprised me.

Even more surprising was my silence; I didn’t have an answer.

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When did I stop?
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It was the book that first got me dreaming.
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1) Fasting has become popular for its health benefits. But what has always interested me is the spiritual dimension.

In every culture and religion in history, fasting has endured as an instinctive and essential practice. 

Learn more 🧵
2) Prophet Moses fasted for 40 days and 40 nights when he was waiting for the revelation on the mountain of Sinai.
3) The gospels record Prophet Jesus fasted for 40 days before undergoing an intense confrontation with Satan.
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Others believe that the sideways consolidation is a continuation pattern with a soon-to-be completed break to new lows.

Who is correct? 🧵 Image
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“Just when we are most comfortable with an environment and come to believe we finally understand it, the ground shifts under our feet.”
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