US CPI Thoughts, Jul'25
3 months into the TACO Trade War inflationary pressures into those CPI macro-categories in principle more impacted by tariffs appear limited.
On a YoY, HoH basis Food, Commodities ex Food&Energy and New Vehicles do show reverberations of the trade war 1/
but on a scale not comparable to what feared.
Odds are that courtesy of ever looser Financial Conditions US and massive pre-emptive imports 2/
US Large Corporations are footing some of the initial impact on prices. 3/
Wages dynamics (blue) continue to remain healthy and stronger by a 2% Margin vs 10y ago in the context of a cooler Job Market (Stayers Wage Growth steadily outpaces Switchers'). These two factors 4/
coupled w/ renewed fears US COs will *not* want to foot in more of the increased Tariffs burden and will pass it onto Consumers are contributing to reignite near-term (5y) increased inflationary expectations (red, LHS), especially vs longer-dated ones (blue, RHS).
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I feel generous today: I'll explain how to make sense of today's monstre #Natgas 360bcf draw.
Look at the chart below.
It plots: 1. U.S. HH continuous first 23 contracts (15-23 are hidden) on selected dates (lhs, $/mmBTU) 2. EOS spread (in X/V % format for consistency, rhs) 1/
3. a grey box on the RHS of the chart, where I put my Storage model's levels for the last 3 EIA Reporting weeks and its EOD scenarios based on different assumptions of how the rest of the Draw Season may behave
Into the grey box I circled in red this year's EOD storage level 2/
and its trajectory over the past three EIA reporting weeks based on the conventional 10y normal weather assumption for the remainder of the Draw season from each EIA Reporting Week on.
How to make sense of this whole complex mechanism?
Declining EOD levels based on the 3/
XV26 (gray) remains small contangoed, from ~+2% early Dec.'25 to ~0% as of COB Jan.14th.
On a same-day basis, XV25 (orange) was deeply bkwrded (~-2%), signalling high risk we'd enter Winter '25/'26 w/ (too) low Stocks, which 1/
we actually did.
MoM rally in CAL26 for TTF is ~2x JKM's, with CAL26 TTF now flat to JKM's @ 9.5$/mmBTU.
Market's signalling the fast rally towards a still relatively cheap CAL26 absolute level (<10$/mmBTU) could be enough to induce and allow aggressive replenishment of what /2
will certainly be heavily and close-to-record low depleted EU (and chiefly DE's, NL's) Natural Gas stocks during the 2026 refill season (Apr-Oct).
(Ill-placed?) Optimism on splurging LNG (over?) supply was never more apparent than now. /end
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Lies, damned lies and numbers ignorance.
MAGA people are over-hyping the Venezuela Oil thing, displaying a massive ignorance of the big-picture.
On paper, VE and CA share certain similarities in their Oil.
Fact is the U.S. imports ~6.5mmbpd from abroad ("Energy Independence" 1/
anyone?), 60% of which (~4mmbpd) from Canada.
Ramping up Venezuelan production is feasible, but very much impossible in the near term to push it to a level where from current <1mmbpd it can reach the level to match internal needs (~1mmbpd) the ~3mmbpd of like-for-like grades 2/
Canada supplies to the US.
Also, the lady forgets massive infrastructures that would need to be retooled/reshaped to send oil to U.S. Midwest, where Canadian grades are de-facto irreplaceable due to logistics.
We had a piece out ealier last year on the /3 equilibrimagazine.it/politiche/2025…
The post-1945 order rests on a noble lie: all states are sovereign equals. Reality says no: Norway and Iran (just to name two) are not equals in power, values, or behavior. Pretending otherwise is the root of the rot.
Multilateral regimes like the UN Charter and NPT assume 1/
comparable ethics and rule-following across signatories. They don’t exist. Fundamentalist theocracies don’t play by liberal rules—yet we treat them as if they do.
Take Iran. Its doctrine since 1979 is explicit: destroy Israel. Institutionalized via IRGC, Quds Force, proxy 2/
axis, Quds Day chants, school curricula. This isn’t rhetoric; it’s state policy with missiles attached.
The NPT’s fatal flaw: no cap on enrichment for “peaceful” programs. Iran exploits the gray zone legally, reaches 60%+, builds latent breakout capacity while we debate 3/
The recent silver rally on CME/COMEX—roughly 25% in the prompt contract over ten days—has been widely attributed to “unprecedented” depletion of exchange stocks and forced conversion of futures into physical metal. A close examination of the actual data does not support this 1/
First, CME inventory figures show that total silver stocks remained broadly stable through the critical December delivery window. Registered stocks—the metal available for delivery—did not decline, while Eligible stocks fell modestly and orderly. This indicates 2/
routine physical withdrawals and inventory management, not stress on the deliverable pool. Coverage ratios remained ample.
Second, delivery volumes in December () were elevated but not historically extreme, and they were absorbed without end-of-month 3/cmegroup.com/delivery_repor…
A chorus of economists and pundits—some of whom I actually respect—is currently up in arms over the fallout from the December 18th European Council marathon.
The original plan, pushed by the Commission and Merz’s Germany, was a 1/
masterpiece of "creative accounting": pillaging frozen Russian assets held by Euroclear to keep Ukraine’s economy (and military) on life support through 2026/27. That plan died on the vine. Instead, as the sun rose on December 19th, we found out the choice had fallen on a 2/
€90 billion loan () funded by the "EU24" (the coalition of the willing, minus the holdouts) through the issuance of common debt.
This is the exact same playbook used to bankroll that bureaucratic vanity project known as the Green Deal, whose financing 3/consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…