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   Investment Thoughts - Macro Observations

 

 

Macro Observations

Analysis, Ideas and Reflections on Macroeconomic Topics

 

 

 

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The eurozone’s Japanification - more to come
With the eurozone economy stuck in a low growth, low inflation and low rates environment, it's really hard not to make 'Japanification' comparisons. If we're honest, the eurozone is probably already in the thick of it, which means rates are likely to remain lower for longer and every new crisis or recession will bring the bloc closer to more Japanification.
ING, 24th June 2019 , Carsten Brzeski, Chief Economist ING Germany; Inga Fechner, Economist, Germany, Austria

The Federal Reserve Has an Inflation Problem
The Federal Reserve (Fed) has an inflation problem. The central bank is not generating enough of it. As a result, market and consumer inflation expectations are plumbing new lows.
Brandywine Global, Around the Curve, May 6 2019 , Alberto J. Boquin, CFA

Payrolls Like GDP: Headlines Good, Underneath Really, Really Not
If the unemployment rate reaches zero and wages still don’t explode higher, the economy falls off, will Economists, central bankers, and the media stop relying on this one statistic for overall economic interpretation?
Alhambra Investment Partners, May 3rd, 2019 , Jeffrey P. Snider

Central Banks Are Messing with Your Head
By directly influencing peoples' valuation scales through the manipulation of market interest rates, central banks affect every aspect of peoples' lives. It amounts to a "Revaluation of all Values", to use a term coined by the German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche.
Mises Institute, 03/21/2019 , Thorsten Polleit

Of wine, wine gums and debt
Fathom Consulting, Thank Fathom it's Friday, 18 April 2019 , Brian Davidson

Part 2: Our Evaluation of the Global Economic Cycle
The Bearish View of the Global Economic Cycle
Brandywine Global, Around the Curve, April 10 2019 , Anujeet Sareen, CFA, Portfolio Manager

Part 1: Our Evaluation of the Global Economic Cycle
The Bullish View of the Global Economic Cycle
Brandywine Global, Around the Curve, April 3 2019 , Anujeet Sareen, CFA, Portfolio Manager

Clash of Empires: Currencies and Power in a Multipolar World
Empires usually start off as road-building exercises. Which explains why, in Europe, everyone says that “all roads lead to Rome”. And when they don’t build roads, empires build canals: the French built the Suez Canal (only to see the British buy Egypt’s stake once the hard work had been done), the Americans built the Panama Canal and, less happily, the Soviets built the Aral Sea Canals (which ended up triggering one of the greatest ecological disasters of all time).
Gavekal, March 2019 , by Charles Gave & Louis-Vincent Gave

China’s Gangbusters Loan Growth
China likes doing things on a grand scale; its recent stimulus is no exception.
Fisher Investments MarketMinder, 03/04/2019 , Editorial Staff

The Broken Window Fallacy
"In 1850, the French economist Frederic Bastiat introduces the concept of opportunity cost with a fallacy in Chapter I of his book “Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas” (What we see and what we don’t see). In Bastiat’s tale, a man’s son breaks a pane of glass, which ultimately stimulates the economy."
Gavekal Intelligence Software, The Quant Corner, February 2019 , Didier Darcet


 

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Asia

Bonds

Bubbles and Crashes

Business Cycles
Central Banks

China

Commodities
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Corporates

Creative Destruction
Credit Crunch

Currencies

Current Account

Deflation
Depression 

Equity
Europe
Financial Crisis
Fiscal Policy

Germany

Gloom and Doom
Gold

Government Debt

Historical Patterns

Household Debt
Inflation

Interest Rates

Japan

Market Timing

Misperceptions

Monetary Policy
Oil
Panics
Permabears
PIIGS
Predictions

Productivity
Real Estate

Seasonality

Sovereign Bonds
Systemic Risk

Switzerland

Tail Risk

Technology

Tipping Point
Trade Balance

U.S.A.
Uncertainty

Valuations

Yield