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Jim Bianco Profile picture
@biancoresearch
Jul 31, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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The latest from Japan.

The Olympics have 8 more days and the spike in cases continues.
@JackFarley96 @acrossthespread

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And speaking of the Olympics ... is this as important as the medal count?

2/5
Japan is under a "state of emergency" and as Apple mobility shows, they are severely restricting their movements (the Olympics started July 23).

(Apple aggregates location data services for various areas)

3/5
Google also aggregates movement of their phones and they similarly show Tokyo businesses have essentially closed, mass transit is empty and even walks in the park are down since the opening ceremonies (July 23).

4/5
What did Tokyo get from the Olympics?

* $Billions spent on sports facilities that will rarely get used again

* massive disruption life and business, lost income

* no tourism

* A spike in delta variant cases that will last a while

The blowback will be big and profound.

5/5
Worth noting that former Prime Minister Abe was strutting around like a Peacock in front of the world at the closing ceremonies of the Rio games in 2016 celebrating that the next games would be in Tokyo.

He did not even attend the opening ceremonies last week.

nuff said

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Feb 28
1/4
Everyone needs to calm down about the Atlanta Fed GDPnow flipping to negative (chart).

It was driven by one statistic, merchandise trade imports, which can snap back as early as next month and take GDPnow back up.

The world is not ending. Image
2/4
Here is the Merchandise trade deficit.

I labeled the last three months to show how much it blew out (and March 2022). Image
3/4
The trade deficit exploded in the last three months, as well as March 2022, due to the surge in imports (orange) while exports (blue) remained relatively unchanged.
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The Ukraine War started in March 2022, and importers rushed to import products (such as grain) from the Black Sea area ahead of potential disruption.

Similarly, the last three months have seen importers rush to bring goods into the country ahead of Trump's tariffs.Image
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Feb 24
1/7
Two major problems need to be addressed, and yes, I agree they cannot be ignored anymore (think @HoweGeneration fourth turning).

The first is the debt situation, as @nfergus detailed:

2/7
The US cannot continue this level of deficit/debt. Increasing taxes and spending cuts will not correct this without hurting the economy.

2024 deficits were 6.58% of GDP. This happens in major crises (civil war, WW2, etc.). What is the major crisis now? Too much debt? Image
3/7
The chart above shows that we have never seen this level of deficits with full employment. A cocktail to explode inflation higher.

Maybe DOGE, Gov't layoffs, or deportations can correct this. It must be corrected.

And cutting spending does not address debt levels. Image
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Feb 22
1/16

A thread on The Mar-A-Lago Accord (MALA).

tl:dr

Take it seriously, not literally

The status quo cannot last. If we do nothing, it ends badly. What is the alternative?

Most of it has either already happened, or is underway. We weren't aware of the name.
2/16

Powell on Dec 4, 2024 - “The U.S. federal budget is on an unsustainable path. The debt is not at an unsustainable level, but the path is unsustainable, and we know that we have to change that"

thehill.com/business/50225…
3/16

He's right, we can no longer do nothing. That will result in disaster. Something has to change.

And that is not trying harder to raise taxes and cut spending.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

New approach is needed (MALA) Image
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Jan 17
1/5
I have not posted a spot $BTC ETF update in a while, so here is one.

These ETFs started trading a year ago (Jan 11, 2024). Their total assets are $114 billion. (Note that they started at $29B on day 1 due to the $GBTC conversion.)

Three funds make up the vast majority. Image
2/5
The net NEW money invested in all Spot BTC ETFs was $36.69B (bottom panel).

This excludes the $29B of $GBTC conversion on day 1. Image
3/5
The dollar cost average purchase price is $BTC $74.3k (blue line), representing an unrealized gain of ~25%, or $12.73B (bottom panel).

All these gains came after the election. Image
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Jan 3
1/5
*US DEC. ISM MANUFACTURING INDEX RISES TO 49.3; EST. 48.2

ISM beat

And as the chart shows, this is the second-highest reading since October 2022 (26 months).

(best sure to see the last post in this thread)Image
2/5
Prices Paid 52.5 versus the estimate of 51.8

It is staying "sticky" above 50 (meaning more rising than falling prices)

Remind me again ... why is the Fed cutting rates? Image
3/5
New Orders is in the Index of Leading Economic Indicators. Economists think it is that important.

It jumped to 52.5, equaling its highest reading since June 2022 (the month YoY CPI hit 9%).

Remind me again: why is the Fed cutting rates? Image
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Dec 29, 2024
1/3
The repost below expresses a common belief that risk assets are effective inflation hedges.

History suggests they are not.

This chart shows that the inflation of the 1960s and 1970s wiped out 64% of the after-inflation stock gains by 1982 (meaning inflation beat stocks by 64%). And all inflation-adjusted gains of the previous 27+ years (back to 1954) were gone (meaning inflation beat stocks over the previous 27 years).

It took until 1992, 28 years later, for stocks to finally start beating cumulative inflation since 1966.Image
2/3
Too many vastly underestimate the devastating impact of inflation.

Since the 2021 peak, when the Fed called inflation"transitory," stocks have only beaten inflation by just 15% (with dividends).

So a 10% to 12% correct and a little bit more inflation and four years of relative purchasing power is gone (meaning you are no better off than four years ago).Image
3/3
As I argue here, the crypto crowd also forgets inflation when they make their long-term forecasts.

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