ET Pro Regulation Monitor

Send Lawyers, Guns and Money

By Ben Hunt | June 7, 2019 | 3 Comments

Nancy Pelosi’s chief of staff is now Facebook’s chief lobbyist. Big Tech just gave the Internet Freedom Award to Ivanka Trump. The head of the antitrust division of the Justice Dept. is a former Google lobbyist.

They’re. Not. Even. Pretending. Anymore.

truth and Truth

By Rusty Guinn | June 7, 2019 | 4 Comments

Great Truths can be important engines for social unity and shared identity. In the hands of some, however, they can become tools for obscuring actual truth – facts – in service of cynical use of the emotional memes attached to those Truths.

Superstorm Powell

By Ben Hunt | June 6, 2019 | 2 Comments

The narratives of Central Bank Omnipotence and Trade & Tariffs have merged into a superstorm.

We are tracking its movement across the map of Narrative-world, and as you might expect … it packs a punch.

The ET Election Index – May 2019

By Rusty Guinn | June 6, 2019 | 3 Comments

This is the second installment of Epsilon Theory’s new monthly feature – the ET Election Index. Our aim with the feature is to lay as bare as possible the popular narratives governing the US elections in 2020. That includes narratives concerning policy proposals and candidates found in the news, opinion and feature content produced by national, local and smaller outlets.

Credit Cycle Monitor – 5.31.2019

By Rusty Guinn | June 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Credit Cycle Monitor – 5.31.2019

Access the Powerpoint slides of this month’s ET Pro monitors here. Access the PDF version of the ET Pro monitor slides here. Access the underlying Excel data here.…

US Fiscal Policy Monitor – 5.31.2019

By Rusty Guinn | June 5, 2019 | Comments Off on US Fiscal Policy Monitor – 5.31.2019

Access the Powerpoint slides of this month’s ET Pro monitors here. Access the PDF version of the ET Pro monitor slides here. Access the underlying Excel data here.…

Trade and Tariffs Monitor – 5.31.2019

By Rusty Guinn | June 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Trade and Tariffs Monitor – 5.31.2019

Access the Powerpoint slides of this month’s ET Pro monitors here. Access the PDF version of the ET Pro monitor slides here. Access the underlying Excel data here.…

Central Bank Omnipotence Monitor – 5.31.2019

By Rusty Guinn | June 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Central Bank Omnipotence Monitor – 5.31.2019

Access the Powerpoint slides of this month’s ET Pro monitors here. Access the PDF version of the ET Pro monitor slides here. Access the underlying Excel data here.…

Inflation Monitor – 5.31.2019

By Rusty Guinn | June 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Inflation Monitor – 5.31.2019

Access the Powerpoint slides of this month’s ET Pro monitors here. Access the PDF version of the ET Pro monitor slides here. Access the underlying Excel data here.…

Whatever It Takes

By Ben Hunt | June 4, 2019 | 15 Comments

It’s the truest thing I know about the State: what begins as emergency government action ALWAYS becomes permanent government policy.

So now here we are, where “whatever it takes” has morphed from saving the entire European project to … [checks notes] … preventing a garden-variety recession.