Some red meat for @friedberg in Cembalest's latest (cc: @Jason @theallinpod) >"By 2030-2031, 100% of Federal tax revenues are projected by the CBO to be needed just to pay entitlements and interest on the Federal debt. Something may have to give by then, possibly after a riot in https://t.co/rCamOH
Korea is heading for a current account surplus of close to $500 billion this year -- That of course raises the question of how is the surplus being recycled. Korean purchases of US equities is definitely a big part of the answer, but no longer the entire answer 1/many https://t.co/R6Pq60XPjJ
Bottom -- very little has so far flowed into the US bond market (to fund either the borrowing to build the data centers that use the chips or the US fiscal deficit) ... but it isn't clear that the old equity outflows offsetting the surplus equilibrium will persist going forward
Equity outflows were almost the entire answer in the first half of the year (foreigners selling Korean stocks because of concentration limits/ Koreans buying foreign stocks) but not in July and August 2/ https://t.co/V1iKtMdXzi
Druck now. Bloomberg Bro Asymetric information The House. Arrogant prick in despair @SecScottBessent https://t.co/Ps8Vtz5VVA 引用 @RealNickMugalli:Treasury secretary Bessent confirms that Stan Druckenmiller lost a bunch of money like citadel securities shorting bonds… He also acknowledged his old s
As French yields continue to climb and pull other European yields higher, there's a question on many people's minds: What is the circuit breaker, and when does it kick in? Is it endogenous? If so, we are likely still a ways away from its trigger point, especially given how
Year-ahead expectations for commodity price changes rose across the board in September according @NewYorkFed Survey of Consumer Expectations https://t.co/x4IjCDsvB8
Financing costs rose in August … average interest rate on credit cards with assessed interest reached 22.36%; average interest rate on a 5-year new car loan rose to 7.54% https://t.co/rZQamsF40o
On October 6, 2026, Vice Chair for Supervision Bowman gave remarks on modernizing regulation and supervision @stlouisfed: https://t.co/TdHpdx4GjV https://t.co/ubwQHalP7D
There are clearly some Fed policymakers who favor an unconditional higher policy path, but the center of the Committee remains focused on incoming data rather than pre-committing to further tightening. https://t.co/eq6vcf4ZRE
Initial jobless claims down to 197k vs. 200k est. & 199k prior; continuing claims at 1.716M vs. 1.700M est. & 1.699M prior … greatest increases in CA (+4.6k), IL (+1.2k), & NY (+1.0k); greatest decreases in HI (-0.3k), MI (-0.2k), & MD (-0.1k) https://t.co/sW75FYCuOk
We’re in the middle of the most acute refined products market crisis in history and China is… … cutting cuts to fresh recent seasonal lows. https://t.co/E7vpk6vNJn 引用 @VKMacro:China refinery run rates are trending lower again for SOE. Where are we on imports? https://t.co/fUREB6DGS8
PODCAST: Great to talk with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer about the oil market, Iran, President Trump, and China. Spotify 🔉: https://t.co/PiC6w5OV5n Apple Podcast 🔉: https://t.co/Mao4AlL8XE Youtube 📺: https://t.co/CsZTFBsrp9 Substack 📄: https://t.co/AOQ3kFzqt3
The Trump administration said Thursday that it would suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft, alleging widespread abuse of a worker visa system https://t.co/9uAsxGpVLZ
Bullish sentiment jumped to 40.3% vs. 34.6% in latest @AAIISentiment (week ending 10/7/26) while bearish sentiment declined sharply to 39.0% from 46.5% the prior week ... this week’s special question polls AAII members on allocating new cash https://t.co/VvsNHORes1
Let's hope that the use of gasoline / diesel online price-disclosure works better in the UK than it did in Chile, where it pushed prices higher (rather than undercut rivals, many gas stations matched their rivals' higher prices instead): https://t.co/69zTGrEYtF
Latest 3Q2026 real GDP estimate (a “nowcast,” not a forecast) from @AtlantaFed GDPNow model is +3.6% , down from October 6 prior read of +3.7% https://t.co/Q9OgM6Ykg2
Oil is up over 5% today courtesy of heightened tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and the looming threat of Hurricane Isaias [Past performance is no guarantee of future results] https://t.co/m9GpyVH9SS
The @DallasFed tries to answer what’s behind high diesel prices? “Global refinery capacity has declined by as much as 10 percent amid mounting transportation challenges and geopolitical tensions.” https://t.co/6krbOSco3t
I so so so badly want this war to end, but imho it feels strategically unwise to broadcast in writing that you won’t attack the country with which you’ve been stuck in a months-long tit-for-tat