One thing that absolutely is in the textbooks -- a big investment boom both pulls in imports and changes the savings v investment balance. The current data center/ AI investment boom is in fact unusually import intensive 2/3 https://t.co/lILe9wv7wx
One thing that is not in the textbooks: the wild gyrations in gold (imports, then exports) and pharmaceuticals, triggered by anticipation of possible tariffs that never materialized 1/2 https://t.co/OCCIYUYLXh 引用 @mattyglesias:Trade deficit is a function of savings dynamics and capital flows, not
In today's post, the authors explore how investment responsiveness to monetary policy changes across firms and over time. Their findings underscore the importance of considering the entire distribution of investment responses rather than focusing on the average effect.
NB: Recently learned that blowing a raspberry is Cockney rhyming slang. Raspberry is condensation Raspberry Tart, and tart rhymes with fart, which is what blowing a raspberry sounds like. 引用 @talmonsmith:Earl at BMO said a while ago we'll be hitting 6 on the 30yr sooner than later and i remember
The tariff that had the biggest impact on the US bilateral deficit with China? The no longer in effect fentanyl tariff, which didn't exclude electronics -- if even 30% of current computer imports came from China that would add $100b to the bilateral balance! https://t.co/Qb51fUvgyE 引用 @tradewart
The last thing an advisor needs is to explain to a client that they are facing a retroactive tax clawback in some product when the admin has already made it clear that it's in the cards for the most abusive versions of these products.
Recent rise in advisors asking me how to think about the various tax avoidance strategies that they are getting bombarded with every day. My answer is pretty simple - if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
One of the funniest consequences of AI is exposing the fact that mathematicians consider math to be an aesthetic pursuit and a source of permanent unvetted sinecures rather than a set of problems to be solved 引用 @mathandcobb:The scale of this is staggering. But... Why? Why is OpenAI trying to so
question for econ/finance: 1. what's the strongest case that AI is behind the increase in treasury rates? 2. what's the strongest case that AI is behind the rise in inflation?
I don't think Mr. Balding quite understands how the game is played -- the effort to negotiate a voluntary export restraint wasn't really aimed at China, but rather at maintaining unity in Europe. Šefčovič had to try ... 1/2 引用 @BaldingsWorld:I can't believe I am seeing so much shock that China e
I really think everyone over-complicates this. There’s a lot of spending right now, a decent chunk of which is related to AI. (all) Spending puts upward pressure on prices. To counteract upward price pressure, the Fed keeps rates high. Treasuries reflect Fed policy. 引用 @DKThomp:question for
Unfortunately, we are being blocked by certain oligarchs in order to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people. You can guess who they are … This is a crime against the people of India! 引用 @cb_doge:India needs @Starlink 🇮🇳 • 11,256 of India’s listed villages still lacked 4G cov
Failures happen. But resilience at cloud scale is designed for the assumption that hardware will fail. The question isn't whether components fail. It's whether your architecture assumed they wouldn't. Read the blog by Mark Russinovich to learn more: https://t.co/s4IVVb1Rm4 https://t.co/BQXx83qoqk
Whatever it take for @Bot to deliver the best product experience for users 引用 @farzyness:Grok @bot will be insanely powerful if it’s completely model agnostic and the @SpaceXAI simply hyper-focuses on creating the greatest orchestrator AI of all time. That orchestrator AI will know what model is b
Starlink in India would enable high-speed, affordable Internet connectivity for those who can’t afford current prices or who don’t have a connection at all! 引用 @cb_doge:ELON MUSK: “We’d love to be operating Starlink in India. That would be great.” It’s been nearly four years since Starlink applied
Increasingly getting more model diversity over time in terms of share of spend across incumbent lab models (e.g., OAI + Ant) + new competitors, while spend aggregates mostly to closed models. Tokens increasingly weighting towards open. As a reminder, Openrouter, Ramp, etc. are https://t.co/NztSFl
Guess we’ll see how open GPU financing markets remain with how this deal does PIMCO apparently interested 引用 @business:The AI arms race is running on debt. SpaceX is looking to borrow $40 billion for Nvidia chips, while Ray Dalio warns the boom is a “classic bubble” near its breaking point: Evenin
And everyone keeps saying someone else should hold the backstop risk 引用 @johnarnold:There's hope that the data center boom can help jumpstart nuclear, and it has with restarts and uprates of existing plants. The challenge for new builds, both for current and next-gen tech, is that no one can promis
Also, this is extremely notable because Google has arguably taken one of the most flexible and 'all the above' options approach (they literally acquired a BTM developer that blends renewables + simple cycle gas for firming) and he is straight up telling you GRID PREFERENCE + BTM https://t.co/FVD36y0
Is Brent becoming my latest ally on fiscal dominance? 引用 @SantiagoAuFund:Higher rates inject more money into the economy, that money gets allocated to equities, and the effects of passive management drive valuations higher.
Further to yesterday's chart of the US yield curve, this one from The Wall Street Journal details the one-month round trip in market expectations for an October Fed rate hike. Is a "hall of mirrors" feedback loop at play here, or is this simply correlation? #economy #markets https://t.co/CyGMp09vjn
A big "thank you" to Wilfred Frost for the interesting conversation on the UK economy. #economy #uk #markets @WilfredFrost @SkyNews https://t.co/Owlm6Byc3X
Context to the escalating selloff in French bonds: more policy uncertainty lowers the actual debt threshold at which defaults become a more likely occurrence, according to this paper. 引用 @GonHuertas:When public debt grows, default risk can jump suddenly. Our new paper with @ojblanchard1 and @pmbru
Taiwan Op-Ed: Elon Musk would not be a good partner for TSMC because he is pro-China for business reasons and “extremely unfriendly to Taiwan”, one media says, adding that if TSMC worked on TeraFab, other clients would likely be unhappy because they don’t have joint venture fabs
Vitol CEO said the oil market has gone through three distinctive phases, at this overlapping each other: 1) a crude crisis; 2) followed by a refined product crisis; and now 3) a shipping crisis. On the later, my @Opinion column from September 🚢⤵️https://t.co/F71hgrvkBg
Kevin Warsh wants investors to watch the economy, not the Fed. But two of his deputies stepped in last week and the probability of an October rate hike fell to around 25% from 70% ahead of any major new data. Why weaning the markets off Fed signals is harder than it sounds https://t.co/nnaySWiPHC
Far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon accuses the head of France's central bank of an “act of treason” a day after the central banker, Emmanuel Moulin, warned that the country risked being "strangled by interest rates" if it didn't address its public finances. 引用 @JLMelenchon:Le banqui
To repeat an old line, in the battle between Trump's tariffs and conventional macroeconomics, conventional macroeconomics is currently winning. The August goods and services deficit was bigger than any deficit apart from those deficits associated with tariff front running 1/ https://t.co/MPrPSGOSh