At #NABE2026, @kylascan discusses the factors behind the vibecession: 1️⃣ Later achievement of life milestones 2️⃣ Media and social negative bias 3️⃣ Labor market frozen and slow wage growth 4️⃣ Price volatility and cumulative inflation @nabe_econ https://t.co/F7miIHID5P
Good morning. Where do G-7 sovereign yields stand entering the new week? Here’s the 10-year government debt lineup from the WSJ. #economy #markets #bonds #yields https://t.co/JSRcursLeG
"The word fear doesn't exist in the Saudi dictionary" -- Saudi oil minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman at the opening of the World Petroleum Congress in Riyadh today.
While Chinese exports of machinery, electronics and cars are set to almost double over the last 6 years ... No wonder container traffic is so unbalanced ... 3/3 https://t.co/m9a1k3xnww
A different way of looking at trade -- trade in kilos Europe now imports (by weight) more machinery, electronics and cars from China than from the rest of the world combined 1/3 https://t.co/K8umSBNnvj
US economic data have increasingly been disappointing analyst expectations, with the Bloomberg US economic surprise index turning negative in the past few weeks. This is edifying concerns that consumers will soon run out of steam to keep spending as much as prices keep rising. https://t.co/Ehiz8hI2f
Lol Trump’s deal wasn’t even an energy ceasefire proper, it was a “refinery-for-refinery” proposal. Only problem: Ukraine only has one damaged refinery that matters little Russia has upward of 36 oil refineries constituting the world’s third largest refinery fleet by capacity https://t.co/GpODaZ
Regarding Hormuz transit figures and directional certainty: We have up to date numbers/estimates for, say, yesterday; we just know that they are likely understated. Dark transits are typically identified with a lag, so the count revisions drift higher over time. As of right
As this chart (h/t @Mike_Weilandt) shows, periods of CNY depreciation/ weakness have consistently been associated with Chinese export outperformance. (the IMF China team ignored this from 22-24, and as a result missed the jump up in China's surplus) Time to get back to BoP https://t.co/ow8GUgbld2
BREAKING: US President Donald Trump claims that both Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an "energy truce" (note this is the 2nd time Trump has made a similar announcement, although this time it comes after a Russia-US diesel on diesel) https://t.co/WMF4kA7e6P
What does a Fed hawk listen for on a factory floor? At industrial-hardware maker Jergens in Cleveland, Beth Hammack heard that price has fallen to third in importance on customers' lists, behind quality and speed.
Hey, NABE Annual Meeting attendees! We’re talking all things BEA data at our booth. Swing by for the latest GDP stats and lots more. @nabe_econ https://t.co/QBhDvr0Iyo
A month ago (Sept 14), Trump did the same thing, randomly announcing a ceasefire that neither side knew anything about. Hours later, energy facilities were hit. https://t.co/HReERokTwE 引用 @DeItaone:ZELENSKIY SAYS TRUMP'S CEASEFIRE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS NEWS FOR HIM -AXIOS ZELENSKIY SAYS IF RUSSIANS AG
Barry Eichengreen sees 2 different scenarios 1️⃣ Favorable: gradual erosion of US Dollar along with creation of a diverse global multipolar monetary ecosystem 2️⃣ Worrisome: sudden collapse of USD before other systems are mature and robust: global liquidity shortage @nabe_econ https://t.co/OlUuV5
Moscow’s pledge to stop hitting Ukrainian energy assets carried the same weight as its boosted diesel exports commitment. 引用 @FirstSquawk:RUSSIA HIT KHARKIV’S MAIN POWER PLANT HOURS AFTER TRUMP ANNOUNCED AN ‘ENERGY CEASEFIRE’, WITH ZELENSKY CONFIRMING THE HIT ON CHP-5 — A MAJOR HEAT-AND-POWER FACIL
Remember two weeks ago when risk premium sceptics were looking at ACM and saying risk premiums were falling not rising. Where are the sceptics today. Using one model is stupid but thinking risk premiums were falling back then was even stupiderer https://t.co/KnWYUsuzHk
And its standard fiscal advice would more or less result in a much bigger current account surplus -- i.e. it wants China to rely more on exports (think the advice used to be a 7 pp consolidation over 10ys, though that good downplayed for s-term cyclical reasons in the last A4)
But key points in the essay were asserted not demonstrated -- this one for example "As cheap imports undercut traditional producers and provide low-cost inputs, labour and capital have shifted towards more productive industries" what industries are expanding on a scale able to
But as policy advice and an honest assessment of the China challenge I found it a bit thin -- suck it up and move into higher value added niches doesn't cut it when China wants all those niches too, and has been quite successful in capturing many of them /end
Well, so much for the notion that the "deal" that the Trump administration did with the UK after "Liberation day" would give the US a leg up over China in the UK market ... 引用 @johnarnold:The UK is a relatively open auto market, with just 10% import tariffs and no quotas on both US and Chinese impo
folks on here argued that following Moscow’s diesel pledge yesterday that Ukraine would be forced to stop its attacks on Russian refineries because it would somehow more explicitly tie them to US energy security. not sure Kyiv really cares or is receptive to this type of whining 引用 @DeItaone:TRUMP
"global" safeguard is easy to finessa -- the safeguard can be applied on all trade in hybrids but with exclusions for all the countries that actually export cars to the EU (or generous tariff rate quotas) other than China. Conceptually allow the limits to be applied to future
Worth remembering that to capture trade in gold you need to look at bars (metal shapes technically ...) as well as the gold line item. The US imported a ton of bars in q1 2025 ... https://t.co/mPVM1mm5r6 引用 @jasonfurman:The United States is having an extraordinary record year for exports. Exports
Electricity production is the best metric for the true strength of any large-scale economy imo 引用 @a16z:Energy capacity = economic capacity, in one chart There are no low electricity, rich countries https://t.co/DTCmjh3kwv