We bears all want to see that epic crash.

There are so many things working against that happening.

A quick 🧵 Image
How did this go from 1T to 8T?
Its nearly the size of the feds balance sheet.

Its not a coincidence - corps took on debt and bought back stonk, executives paid in options got rich.

Even in stagflation, corps will do well - they are sitting on mountains of debt - those that globalized will benefit from incredible triage in labor rates around the world.

Habeeb in india is now nearly 20% cheaper to employ... Image
Stagflation makes US employees even MORE expensive - corps cant (or wont) afford; so more work will be shipped overseas, more ppl in america will fall behind.

US becomes more of an empty shell, 2 societies - one at the top making all the important decisions where labor will be employed and factories will be built and the other barely holding on

What is the counter argument?
And as you consider all this - consider this as well - thats 7T in injected capital.

Where will it go?

Say there is a crash - will ppl pull all their equity out of the market?

Will they buy commodities? Bonds? or just hoard cash?

Really think this one thru...
Here is Druk talking about the dollar.

US has a mountain of debt and its nearly impossible to impose new taxes without bringing the entire house of cards down.

So the fed will have to monetize.

This would weaken the dollar, stonks moon.
Anti-milkshake?

Nearly every corporation is doing same thing - taking on debt, buying back stonk- here is $UNH Image
$LOW Image
$AAPL Image
$GE is an interesting study - they are paying DOWN debt AND retiring shares....this might be set to explode higher next earnings.... ImageImage
$WMT is doing it Image
$TGT is doing it Image
But heres the problem - Trump had the best intentions when he cut corporate taxes; He then imposed HI import tarrifs on china - the idea - coerce corporations to invest domestically.

Make imports EXPENSIVE

Instead?

Corporations took the money and ran... Image
So now re-consider the "dollar will weaken" - ok - all these corps took on trillions in debt combined to buy back stonk.

They have to pay that back.

With what......rubles? yen? yuan?

#milkshake

@SantiagoAuFund
@SantiagoAuFund And when u rich the LAST thing you want is a tax event - aka selling shares.

Its MUCH better to just borrow against them.

Stonk buybacks make what you hold "more marginable" - aka - you can write ++loan against them.

This works so long as stonk goes up.
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Jul 3
Story time...
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put on a tin foil hat for this one, tho when im done, you will find you dont need it....
Lets say you are the global hegemon and you want to maintain your global dominance....

You realize that the global dominance you once had is under threat

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lets build.

This is the svix.
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this is usdjpy vs svix Image
This is oil producers currencies vs svix Image
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A quick thread about reserve currency status.

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Please take a minute and commit this to memory - its going to be important to you in later life.

And im gun explain right here why and how US is losing its grip.

🧵👇 investopedia.com/terms/r/reserv…
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Digested and simplified - there are 2 critical components of reserve currency:

1) most trade is done in that reserve currency
2) most money is stored in that reserve currency

Right now, its the dollar.
And the store is US treasuries.
Any country thats wanted a seat at the international trade table must store foreign exchange reserves in dollars. But they want some return for their investment so they buy US treasuries.

If you look at trading economics, look at FX reserves for any given country.


Because most trade is done in dollars its easier to just store dollars in US treasuries. You sell treasuries for dollars when you need them.tradingeconomics.com/country-list/f…Image
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Jun 28
Pre-market commentary
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yesterday was a revelation.

so many things....its all starting to click.

I get it now.

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Who is the #1 holder of US debt?
ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-cente…
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Who has top motive to make sure US economy doesnt blow up with higher yields?

see higher yields crush the stonk - so offset that with lower vix.

and they have. Image
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This is the formula vs svix.

SVIX is a tool to crush commodities.
It has a happy side effect of lifting the stonk.

The lime line is "the formula" - the vix is an INCREDIBLY important part of the formula.

Its why i focus on the vix.

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The @federalreserve seized control of the vix on 3/2022.

They could no longer "contain" oil thru interest rate hikes. And russia pulled a russia which would make the situation worse.

This also helped the fed attack the russian ruble.

Svix and uvix act as kryptonite to oil market futures pricing.
Because russia's number 1 export is oil, it also damaged the russian currency - a happy coincidence. Image
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This is the russian ruble and their long 20y bond.

It is now paying 16% for 20y.

Russia is doing this to defend its currency (make it stronger).

The west does not want the russian ruble to get stronger because it can impact the price of oil.
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key to this currency war is the euro - in orange.
Euro f's with their currency value vs the ruble to weaken the ruble. Image
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