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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US NFPs 06/'25
"You can't force a horse to drink"
The overall benign tone of the US Job Market masks two key aspects:
a. There is no Manufacturing renessaince whatsoever at an employment-level. However dearly paid for or subsidized, no new jobs there have emerged so far /1
Jobs creation continues to be in L&H, where additions clock north of 80k/month new jobs.
Given this backdrop, no wonder the lingering feeling about inflation remains a bad one as however fast-increasing, salaries paid in this "poor-jobs" bucket leave the worker a "poor" one. /2
If we take the Jan-to-June accumulated actual (i.e. net of revisions) jobs created and the accumulated Jan-to-June NFPs revisions we do note a "weakening" trend for the former and a strenghtening trend for the latter. Both things being a "net negative" to the overall picture /3
Let's compare&contrast MAG7-led SP500 perf. vs RUT:
a. from Jan 1st, 2023 (ie from when the post Annus Horribilis 2022 rebound started);
b. from Nov. 9th, 2023, when UST10y yield peaked;
through Nov.4th, 2024 (Trump Election Day).
We see the AI-powered SP500 overperf. vs RUT 1/
really materialized during the Jan-Nov. 2023 timespan as from Nov.2023 into Nov.2024 *both* indices actually rallied in synch supported by impressive US Economy resilience and several dovish false-steps of the US FED (Sep. 2024 anyone?).
In other words: the colossal reduction 2/
in the Cost of Capital (US10y) coupled with ever looser US Financial Conditions () made the US Risk Investable Space unmissable across all of its niches.
If we fast forward to Nov. 5th 2024 through "Liberation Day" we note the following 3/
US NFPs 04/'25
It does take a great deal of intellectual paucity and dishonesty to claim the root of US Federal Budget Spending Profligacy is rooted in the ballooning Payrolls at Governmental Level.
Over the last 25yrs Government Payrolls as % of Total US NFPs red line) moved 1/
from a max of 17.60% in May '10 to a min. of 14.49% in Oct. '22, and up ever since to today's (Apr. '22) 14.8%.
Ballooning Federal Budget is verily rooted in the ill-conceived and distaster-only yielding narrative of *Manufacturing Reshoring" (). 2/
It was verbally initiated by the 1st Trump admin () when the withdrawal from TPP, the demolition of the NAFTA and an early attempt to implement what would later (i.e. today) become the largest Trade Tariffs Shock from the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Act 3/reshoringinstitute.org/wp-content/upl…
Winter 2024-'25 saw EU Member States forced to deplete ~ to record amounts of stored Natural Gas (see ↓) not only because Dunkelflaute repeatedly hit DE, NL (see: x.com/degiorgiod/sta…) but also because EU27 imported 111bcm btwn Nov.'24-Jan.'25 vs 120 in same-period '23-'24 1/ x.com/degiorgiod/sta…
As per previous chart, declines were spread across the board in both pipeline and LNG segments of supplies.
Ironically, as EU Member states imports from the US fell by 1.3bcm over that timeframe, the very price of those fewer molecules actually ROSE 2/
thus adding to spiralling high Energy and Power Prices that murdered European Industrial Production /end
Non si sconfigge un Male alleandosi con uno ancora peggiore.
I funerali di Papa Francesco mi offrono nuova occasione per una amara riflessione.
Ho decine e decine di post su X proprio su questo punto, da molti anni.
che troppi commettono: la loro opposizione (e mia come testimonio tra gli altri con questo: ) all'ipocrisia viscida di molta parte delle istituzioni occidentali - che è un fatto - non può e non deve essere "controbilanciata" da un sotterraneo od 2/
esplicito (come purtroppo nel caso di papa Francesco nel caso dell'invasione russa dell'Ucraina) supporto ad altre ed ancor più tremende e sanguinarie istituzioni (Russia di Putin, Hamas, Iran, Cina). Ciò perchè tali "alternative" () sono deplorevoli 3/