Mastering monetary plumbing is very important to understand global macro.
And if you do, you also understand that the risk of a systemic/liquidity crisis will be materially increasing over the next 6-9 months.
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Let's start from the financial system.
Since its peak in Q1, the Federal Reserve balance sheet is down by roughly $200 billion.
The Fed told us they will shrink it by roughly $1 trillion per year, so we know the direction of travel.
But what matters the most...
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...is what (!) is exactly contributing to that drop.
On the asset side, the Fed will be letting both Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities mature without reinvesting them (''passive'' QT) month after month.
It seems like several Central Banks are going through a sudden ''change of heart''.
Recently many Central Banks and today the ECB came out pretty dovish.
Let's see what's going on, and whether the Fed is going to join the party too.
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Australia, Canada and now Europe are starting to weigh pros and cons of calibrating monetary policy with a single objective: bringing inflation down to 2%, as soon as possible.
Instead, they are beginning to consider a slowdownor a complete pause in rate hikes.
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...such a sudden ''change of heart''?
Because all these jurisdictions have something in common: inherent fragilities.
Be it private sector debt/domestic housing market (Canada) or a very suboptimal ‘‘monetary & fiscal union’’/recession fears (Europe)...
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For decades, Germany's business model has been largely structured around cheap energy and input costs used to produce good-quality manufactured goods to export around the world.
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