It's about the destination now
Forget the speed of rate hikes
Focus on the terminal rate and
how long the Fed must stay there
= how much cumulative pain is needed to crush #inflation
1/n Powell: 'If we were to overtighten, we could use our tools to support the economy later on.'
Or in other words, we are willing to risk a #recession to get the 'job done' and push #inflation to target.
1/n Interesting end to the presser with one journalist stating #equities were up after #FOMC - which was not true -
Powell repeated virtually all hawkish sentences he had made during the press conference. He cares about (tighter) financial conditions, not about equities.
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Equities and risky assets fell, but again there was no capitulation. Death by a thousand cuts.
Yet, we are now really close to a significant and broad-based decline in #inflation numbers, meaning another pivot dream is already in the making.
#Duration works both ways! #Austria's '100-year' bond, maturing in 2120, with a duration of 46 years, is down a whopping 72% since late 2020 when global yields bottomed.
short thread 1/9
This also answers the many questions about why the value of (UK) #liability-driven investment funds, used by pension funds to match the #duration of their #liabilities, has plummeted. 2/9
Theoretically, since pension fund #liabilities and #assets both drop when #yields rise - it is not called liability matching for nothing - there shouldn't be a problem, right? 3/9
An earlier note to our clients showed that since 1950 there were just two major moves in #inflation: one up from 1955 until 1980, and one down from 1980 until last year. Before that, inflation was all over the place and more often negative. The last 70 years may be the outlier.
It has always been a bit of a puzzle to me why everything in #bitcoin is so extreme. Perhaps it is partly because it’s characteristics as an asset class are pretty extreme. Yet, that does not mean it cannot add value to a well-diversified portfolio. 1/7
In fact, that is exactly what #bitcoin has done since it was created, but also during more recent periods. By allocating a modest portion of your #portfolio to bitcoin, you would have increased portfolio return, without adding #volatility. 2/7
Like for any asset class, it’s possible to derive future returns for #bitcoin. For example by using the market cap of investable #gold, or the value of the insurance policy against fiat currency debasement. You can look and mining costs, network effects, and so on. 3/7