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.
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
And here it was explained, three and a half years earlier, why inflation remains unfixed, fiscal dominance is more in the news, and ultimately, nothing stops this train. 引用 @LynAldenContact:Most of the hawks don't take into account the fiscal-driven inflation situation or sovereign bond liquidity.
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
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
Speech by Vice Chair for Supervision Bowman on modernizing regulation and supervision @stlouisfed: https://t.co/TdHpdx4GjV Watch live: https://t.co/3uONmVD82z Learn more about Vice Chair for Supervision Bowman: https://t.co/tWe5lT3FDv
The 2025-26 U.S. tariffs have renewed the question of how much of a tariff reaches consumers, and how quickly. In today's post, the authors trace tariffs through import, domestic producer, and retail prices for U.S. consumer goods. https://t.co/qKgJSPqQKq
IS THE BOND MARKET PRICING IN A NEW GLOBAL HEGEMON? In the newsletter (inspired by our conversation with @CarolinPflueger) I wrote about the huge spread between US and Chinese sovereign borrowing costs, and what it might imply about a shifting balance of geopolitical power. https://t.co/koH2ow8LCn
Again if you start from the premise that having the most advanced AI is a matter of national security — clearly a view that’s held by many in DC and SF — then the right policy to tame inflation is not to raise rates, but to raise taxes on everything except datacenters. 引用 @colbyLsmith:NEW w/ @benca
1/3 Here's the chart back to 1793, courtesy of Ed McQuarrie at Santa Clara. The past 10 years have been the worst since 1803. Read that carefully. Bonds WERE the worst investment in American history. It says nothing about what they do next. https://t.co/9kif9Ryayo 引用 @dampedspring:This chart is
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Axios's @mikeallen he thinks Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh is "doing well." "If I look at my call sheet every day, I probably have a hundred calls to make. I think if you're Fed chair, you probably have three. So part of my job is to make sure https://t.co/JK3V5uxD
Last week was mainly about bond market volatility, with evidence of spillover, and continued equity market resilience due to data and Fedspeak. This week, we get the Fed minutes and lots of interesting data. For more details, please see one of the links below for my weekly note
Bessent: "I can't control the bond market. What I can do is try to get people to slow down and think." "What I meant by 'I am the house' is that I have superior information." https://t.co/gWNMqc6992
S&P 500 Technology stocks have been main beneficiaries of this year’s AI trade, up 30% YTD; Communication Services, buoyed by Meta, has more recently joined rally (S&P 500’s best performers in September); yet, credit markets are signalling greater caution; option-adjusted spreads https://t.co/NjNtKd
The unemployment rate tells a similar picture of relative stability. It was 4.19% in June, 4.09% in July, 4.14% in August, and 4.18% in September. Since June 2024, the unemployment rate has not fallen below 4.0% or risen higher than 4.5%. https://t.co/x6ByfSnZ9P
Great to join @NYSE with @KristenScholer to discuss the latest #jobsreport, #diesel prices, economic trends and what this all means for the #Fed's next rate decision via @EYnews @EY_Parthenon https://t.co/cJQZJ88htZ 引用 @NYSE:Today on NYSE Live: @parisingh, @flowenghq @keithirizarry, @MLBNetwork+@E
This ho-hum labor market report doesn't really change the story for the Fed, whose senior officials had gone out of their way this week to signal that an October rate hike probably wasn't their base-case. The biggest development was what it didn't show: few signs from wages or https://t.co/6GY9Ud2Q
Blanche tells Bloomberg News he isn't reopening a criminal investigation into former Fed Chair Jerome Powell for cost overruns on its buildings But he said that if the Fed's own internal audit of the project finds evidence of wrongdoing, the DOJ could investigate
Notes on the Data have been added for the following as-of-date: July 1, 2026, and revised for the following as-of-dates: April 2, 2025; July 2, 2025; October 1, 2025; December 31, 2025; and April 1, 2026. Data on this H.8 release have been benchmarked through the June 2026 Call
Trump says he’s not satisfied with media coverage that relied on the statements of his own attorney general that suggested the DOJ is done investigating the Fed building renovations. He restates his unhappiness with former Fed chair Powell. https://t.co/LH8IxiUnoW 引用 @NickTimiraos:Blanche tells Blo
7/7 Since the Fed didn't listen and kept cutting rates, yields🚀. If the Fed continues to defy the market by refraining from hiking later this month, could we see more🚀? - "Bond traders will stop panicking when the Fed starts panicking." Start panicking Fed/Williams!
6/7 The 2024 to 2026 CUTTING cycle (orange) saw HIGHER bond yields (blue). This is the first time in 50+ years CUTS saw HIGHER yields. I've argued this was the market sending the Fed a message that they were too easy. Short rates (funds/repo/bills) needed to be higher. https://t.co/jlKJCFXDWH
1/7 tl:dr - This week, Fedspeak said "no urgency" to hike in October. Payrolls helped this narrative. The bond market is signaling unhappiness with this potential outcome. "Bond Traders can stop panicking when the Fed starts panicking." 🧵
8/8 Why push back on debt levels as a driver of interest rates? Because way too many think debt is the MAIN driver of higher yields, interest costs are the burden, and the solution is financial repression such as yield curve control. This would be disastrous. If yields are 引用 @biancoresearch:1