YOU'RE FINALLY GETTING THE STOCK MARKET YOU'VE BEEN ASKING FOR
In today's @markets newsletter, I wrote about how we finally have the right conditions such that the Fed just doesn't need to worry so much about volatility and selloffs.
@markets Fiscal stimulus and deleveraging of private sector balance sheets means there isn't much of a transmission between asset prices and real economic activity. We might already be seeing a Fed that cares less about the market than it previously had been.
@markets As I said back in July, Fiscal expansion is the off ramp from the existing cycle. And it looks like that might be playing out.
@markets Ultimately the irony (I guess it's irony? idk) is that a lot of Fed haters also don't like the idea of fiscal stimulus. But they need to embrace it (or at least accept it) as the alternative to getting towards a less central-bank driven world/economy/stock market.
@markets I'd say it's exactly the opposite. It's precisely because we're getting stimulus checks that the Fed isn't worried about the stock market falling
THIS IS WHY THERE'S BOTTLENECKS AND SHORTAGES THROUGHOUT THE ECONOMY
For today's @Markets newsletter, I talked with @nathantankus about why in times like this we see shortages, rather than price increases to balance out supply/demand
@markets@NathanTankus Here's the comments from Monday, where every thing in the ISM survey was all about shortages and bottlenecks and supply chain disruptions
This is pretty incredible. Citi's US Economic Surprise Index was already in the range of its highest levels ever, and now it's back on the rise.
Every single comment in the ISM survey is about supply chain bottlenecks or increased prices. Not a single respondent saying end demand is weak ismworld.org/supply-managem…
This was the best discussion I've had so far in terms of helping me understand where they're all coming from and why everyone's going nuts for them right now.
@tracyalloway@howardlindzon It turns out that in Howard's case, it all started last February, right before the pandemic hit, with a dinner at Carbone in NYC with @adambain.
In today's @markets newsletter, I wrote about how almost a year into this crisis, the strength of the US economy continues to be underestimated by economists and analysts
@markets Here's the larger version of the Citi Surprise Chart. You can see. There's just nothing comparable in the last decade to the duration and scale of the data beats.
@markets Here's Goldman, from this past weekend, on how earnings are above pre-pandemic levels, while just clobbering expectations, even at this stage of the game.