The 10y/2y curve is now less than 7 basis points away from inverting
71% probability of a 50 bps hike in May
21% probability of a 75 bps hike in June (red bolded)
10 rate hikes in 2022
The Fed hiked 75 the Nov 14, 1994, FOMC meeting. It has precedent.

This cycle has worked in the following manner:

* The market first begins to price in a hike, but the odds remain below 50% – everyone laughs

* The odds of a hike rise to 50% – everyone forecasts it won’t happen
* The odds rise to somewhere around 66% – everyone starts to wonder

* The odds rise to 75% to 80% – Goldman forecasts it and everyone else on Wall Street follows suit

Are we at the “everyone laughs” phase of a 75-basis point hike? Will the rest of the cycle follow by June?

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Mar 28
1/9

🧵 on the yield curve and how to read it.

Bottom line

* Curves with no longer than 2-years (i.e, 3M/2Y) are steepening A LOT. They are signaling many rate hikes are coming.

See the table, 12 hikes are now priced in for the next year. Yes ... 12!

@lisaabramowicz1
2/9

* Curves no shorter then 2-years (i.e., 2Yr/10Yr) are flattening a lot and many are inverting.

So, we believe they are signaling the huge number of rate hikes will break something in markets, the economy, and/or the financial plumbing (repo).

Details below.
3/9

2018 Engstrom & Sharpe argued an inverted 10y2y curve did not mean recession. The FOMC was so impressed (or wanted this to be the case) that they invited them to an FOMC meeting to explain it.

The curve inverted in 2019 and a year later, recession.

federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/…
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Mar 27
1/7

Earlier I put out this thread about why the move to WFH is causing persistent inflation, our consumption basket has changed.

This thread is about how this same WFH shift is totally changed the RE mkt, homes and office.

I prefer to call RE “broken” rather than a “bubble.”
2/7

First some metrics from Redfin.

The average time to sell is down to 17 days, from 90 ten years ago

Over half of all homes sell ABOVE their list price!

Incredible!
3/7

And this unbelievable stat from Zillow

This is the first time in the history of this data series, which includes the housing bubble…

The yearly increase in home value has eclipsed median yearly salary.

Your home went up more than you made!

wsj.com/articles/homes…
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Mar 27
1/21

Why do we have inflation?

Why is it persistent?

And why the Fed has no choice but to address this problem?

And if it means hiking and hiking risking lower asset prices and/or a recession, so be it. Not dealing with inflation would be worse

A thread to explain.
2/21

The pandemic was arguably the most important economic event of our lifetime.

It sped up the trend of remote work/work-from-home by at least a decade.

The result is what is now known as the “Great Resignation.”
3/21

Simply put, the number of people working in an office is still well below pre-pandemic levels.

We have our doubts the percentages in the charts below will return to 100% anytime soon, if ever.
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Mar 22
1/6

A political🧵 with some very interesting charts.

Let's start with a new poll out today.

BIDEN APPROVAL RATING DROPS TO NEW LOW OF 40%, ACCORDING TO REUTERS/IPSOS POLL CONDUCTED ON MARCH 21-22

So, no "rally around the flag" for Biden (yet?)

graphics.reuters.com/USA-BIDEN/POLL…
2/6

In fact, Biden is getting no bounce at all from being a "War-Time President" Image
3/6

Biden (blue) is in day 422 of Presidency. He is behind Trump (red) when he was at day 422. Image
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Mar 22
1/8

Here is a more complete 🧵on market reactions to world wars.

While @dailydirtnap is suggesting that the market rally is surprising, the same thing happened at the beginning of WW2 (after Sept 1, 1939)

2/8

But hope was soon dashed. Stocks fell 40% by April 1942. The victory at Midway turned around the war, and the markets.

Note one of the darkest periods was May 1940, Dunkirk, and the fear the Nazis would win. One of the worst months for stocks in the 20th century.
3/8

While stocks look like they did well during WW2, up about 40% during the war, inflation was such a big problem that they underperformed the CPI for a decade.

The "real," or inflation-adjusted SPX lost.
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Mar 21
Powell

If we conclude that it is approp to move more aggressively by raising the funds rate by more than 25 bps at a meeting or meetings, we will do so

if we determine that we need to tighten beyond measures of neutral into a more restrictive stance, we will do that as well.”
Post Powell speech release:

50bps hike in May 4 now 55%
42% of another 50 in June 15.
Now nine hikes priced in for 2022.
2-year spiking big. Now at 2.10% to up 17bps

10y/2y curve now 17 bps
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