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25 Dec, 12 tweets, 4 min read
Santa Alf is coming!

A shoutout thread for the best FinTwit people out there - those are all nice, and highly valuable accounts to follow.

No pr*cks allowed on this list.

I will miss many for sure, feel free to shoutout for your preferred global macro accounts!

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First mention to my friend @AndreasSteno. A truly awesome guy, who is well versed at global macro and can change his mind as facts change (very rare!).

We all miss him, but a bird told me we won’t have to wait long!

1/11
A smaller but fantastic account is @dampedspring. I recently had a chat with him on @RealVision and it confirmed what I already knew: he has a solid framework, he can elaborate very well and he is honest with his P&L as he managed real money and knows the game.

2/11
Back to a big account that you must follow: @LynAldenContact.

Her success is absolutely deserved: the prototype of global macro analyst, always factual and very open to discussions with people having opposite views. Keen learner, true gem.

3/11
Fighting for the title of most underrated macro account on FinTwit…@MrBlonde_macro!

A wealth of cross asset knowledge and insights, backed by fantastic charts and a person who is always open for a honest macro debate.

4/11
@kevinmuir is just what you would expect from a Canadian macro guy: great macro, and well…Canadian. That means he is such a gentleman.
His newsletter The Macro Tourist is absolutely value for money.

5/11
@NickGiva managed proper money, and you would realize it after 5 minutes following his Twitter feed.

I learn from him, you should too.

6/11
@42macroDDale is a macro pro: his brain goes quick in connecting the dots, so sharpen out when you listen to him.
Valuable insights, and a true gentlemen too!

7/11
@DoombergT is one of my favorite new follows: his Substack is really solid and his insights are always thought provoking. Give the green little chicken a follow!

8/11
@donnelly_brent also managed true P&L in the FX world, and it’s crystal clear he did that.
Plenty of great FX tips and juicy charts on his feed.

9/11
Last but not least: @cullenroche. He played a big role in helping me understand how the monetary system truly works. @pragcap is a fantastic book everybody should read.
He is a talented, Knowledgeable and great guy.

10/11
Of course there are other amazing people out there - just look in the list of accounts I follow, it’s pretty short.

Any valuable accounts I am missing here? Shoutout at your preferred global macro FinTwit accounts!

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More from @MacroAlf

24 Dec
Our grandmas would be proud of us tonight.

Proper Southern Italian dishes, which also means f**k the look, it must taste good and portions big enough to feed an army.

All religiously handmade - no cheating.

Enjoy!

1/10
This is how you start: enough salami, ham and cheese to make you feel full…but you just started.

2/10
Ok grandma, we deviated a bit here.

Muffins with pancetta and melted cheese.

Smells amazing, tastes better.

3/10
Read 10 tweets
21 Dec
I see people often freaking out about the US NIIP, which signals the US is a large net debtor nation vis-à-vis the rest of the world.

Breaking news: nothing to see here, this is just the design of our current monetary system!

1/4
Our monetary system foresees a fully elastic fiat money supply.

Credit expansion is not immediately tied to any hard assets (e.g. gold), and the US sits at the epicenter of this system as it owns the global reserve currency.

As the system feeds on continuous leverage...

2/4
...the nation producing the global reserve currency is in charge of exporting it abroad.

The Eurodollar system compounds this problem, making the system even more dependent on continuous $ supply.

The world asks for $, and needs $ relentlessly!

3/4
Read 4 tweets
20 Dec
What's going on in USD/TRY?

Erdogan just promised to refund all mark-to-market losses in xxx/TRY if those losses would exceed the interest rate you can gain by owning deposits denominated in TRY.

If you believe him, you now have free carry in TRY/xxx without P&L risks.

1/4
FX carry trades (once upon a time, TRY was considered as an FX-carry candidate) work well if the interest rate differential is more than enough to offset the MtM and volatility across FX pairs throughout the lifetime of the trade.

Recently, that didn't work well...

2/4
A 10%+ yearly interest rate differential between TRY and any other ''funding'' currency like EUR or JPY was not enough to compensate even for a week of MtM losses and volatility.

Erdogan now promises to fund all your MtM losses and let you eat the pie (the carry).
How?

3/4
Read 4 tweets
19 Dec
Tapering and quantitative tightening will be prominent topics in 2022, so I feel we need a reminder here

Central banks DON'T print money

QE simply forces the private sector to swap away duration intensive, coupon bearing bonds for 0 duration, 0 yielding deposits/reserves

1/9
Central Banks expand their balance sheet by creating reserves and buy bonds from the private sector.

The private sector now has less bonds and more reserves.
That's it, just a swap.

No ''money'' has been created.
Yeh, but what if the CB buys from another entity?

2/9
Same story, one difference

Pension funds and asset managers can't hold reserves, so they now have new bank deposits

Those are still inert, 0 duration, likely 0 yielding assets that don't find their way to the real economy

They find their way in M2 though, be careful...

3/9
Read 9 tweets
17 Dec
The support I've received here on FinTwit since I came back has been huge: thank you!

I also got quite a lot of requests to share tips that helped my career to progress quickly.

Here you go!

0/7
#1: Use mentors.

Select them carefully.
They've been there before you.
They know the game, listen to them.
#2: Be curious.

If your job is just your job, it will be hard to excel.
If you are curious and eager to learn every day, you are already 10 steps ahead.
Read 8 tweets
15 Dec
As promised, here is the bond market 101 thread!

Answering the top 10 questions I received in a previous tweet, here we go!

1/10
Question #1: ''Why is 10yr not going up with Fed about to finish QE/star hiking/inflation printing high?''
A: 10y yields are roughly the sum of 10y real rates, 10y CPI expectations and term premium. When the Fed tightens, the medium/long-end of the bond market extrapolates lower nominal growth going forward (= lower rates) and more certainty about this outcome (= lower term premium) Image
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