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24 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
A quick timeline about China and cryptos for those that think something significant was announced today (aka the financial media).

Dec 6, 2013 - China banned bitcoin knocking the price down 50% (from $1200 to $800)

forbes.com/sites/kashmirh…

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Sep 11, 2017 - China bans crypto exchanges. Its price dropped to $4,100

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theverge.com/2017/9/11/1628…
Apr 9, 2019 - China readies to ban bitcoin mining
bitcoin broke below $5,000 on the news.

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 theguardian.com/technology/201…
May 18, 2021 - China bans financial, payment institutions from cryptocurrency business

reuters.com/technology/chi…

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Jun 20, 2021 - China kicked out 90% of the miners.

globaltimes.cn/page/202106/12…

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Kain Warwick, founder of DeFi protocol Synthetix, probably put it best:

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Jim Bianco Profile picture
22 Sep
I think everyone is getting Evergrande backwards.

It's not what a default means for China. Rather it's what happened to China to cause a default.

Start with this chart. Economists are hacking China growth forecasts, and the downgrades are accelerating.

1/5
These downgrades are consistent with the Economic Strength Indices (ESI) compiled by our colleagues at @DataArbor . They measure incoming economic data versus its 1-year average.

China’s ESI has been falling and recently turned negative.

2/5
Currently, China (orange) is the only large economy with an ESI below zero.

3/5
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Jim Bianco Profile picture
22 Sep
Maybe the US markets are not about Evergrande ... maybe it is Washington.

A thread to explain.

Let's start with this from CNN (!).

They are finally saying the quiet part out loud. His presidency is on fire, because his own party is the problem.

1/4
edition.cnn.com/2021/09/22/pol…
While his appr rating might be bottoming (Gallup today at 43%, so we'll see), his disappr keeps making new highs.

In a polarized world where the vast majority will never chg their opinion (either way), this is a big move and only about 2% higher than Trump on election day.

2/4
Rs are saying "Ds, you do it"

Biden is going have to use his political capital to get Ds to pass spending/debt ceiling.

Again, see Biden's approval/disapproval chart above ... what political capital? It seems to be disappearing by the day.

3/4
cnn.com/2021/09/22/pol…
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Jim Bianco Profile picture
21 Sep
Gensler taught a blockchain class at MIT. When he was nominated the crypto universe was excited as a guy that "gets it."

Now we see he really thinks the entire space (incl BTC) is a giant scam and his agency must protect investors from themselves.

1/3
 wsj.com/articles/secs-…
What is going on here?

Gensler is a career bureaucrat, nothing more, nothing less.

That means he gets important positions of power and he gets to be in the room when the policy is formulated, and offer his opinion, and it will be seriously considered.

2/3
But when the policy is made (read: Yellen decides) Gensler is to prostitute to the full force of his office/reputation to sell it. And sell it like he means it!

Otherwise, they will find another bureaucrat and he can go back to MIT.

This is how Washington works.

3/3
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Jim Bianco Profile picture
19 Sep
An addendum to this thread about the debt ceiling debate maybe moving from non-event to event.

Two issues to clarify.

1/5
First, the Ds have the ability to raise the debt ceiling by themselves, explained here. So, they are not hostage to a filibuster.

BUT! This assumes the Ds are in agreement on a spending bill. As I noted in my earlier tweet, they are not.

2/5
reuters.com/world/us/us-se…
In 2013 the SEC ruled that any Govt sec that does not pay on maturity date is in technical default and must be valued at $0.

So, money market funds holding T-Bills maturing while in a debt ceiling fight, must market them at $0 until paid.

3/5
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19 Sep
The WSJ just released a Janet Yellen Op-Ed imploring congress to raise the debt ceiling.

Maybe this is not the done deal everyone thinks it is ... a thread to offer some thoughts.

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wsj.com/articles/congr…
So who is Yellen talking to here?

The democrats have the presidency and the majority in the House and the tie-breaking vote in the Senate (50/50, VP breaks ties).

They do not need a single republican vote to raise the debt ceiling.

2/6
So what is Yellen worrying about?

Could it be that Biden is losing political cloud?

As this chart shows, and I have mentioned in previous tweets, we are a very polarized country. No one ever changes their opinion (for or against). So a move of this size is significant.
3/6
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15 Sep
A thread about transitory vs persistent inflation and why persistent might be actually be winning.

This comes from @economics And it breaks down CPI by reopening and non-reopening components.
Of the 5.25% inflation rate in the last year, only 1.62% was reopening components.

1/6
Breaking it down for August we find that reopening CPI components (or transitory inflation) FELL by 0.22% while CPI non-reopening components (or persistent inflation) ROSE by 0.35%

2/6
Detailing this we find that CPI non-reopening (persistent) components are surging to its highest monthly level since at least 2016.

Restated, this series of persistent inflation is trending higher, and is 78% of overall CPI.

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