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Credit Cycle Monitor – 2.28.2019

By Rusty Guinn | March 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Credit Cycle Monitor – 2.28.2019

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US Fiscal Policy Monitor – 2.28.2019

By Rusty Guinn | March 5, 2019 | Comments Off on US Fiscal Policy Monitor – 2.28.2019

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Trade and Tariffs Monitor – 2.28.2019

By Rusty Guinn | March 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Trade and Tariffs Monitor – 2.28.2019

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Central Bank Omnipotence Monitor – 2.28.2019

By Rusty Guinn | March 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Central Bank Omnipotence Monitor – 2.28.2019

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Inflation Monitor – 2.28.2019

By Rusty Guinn | March 5, 2019 | Comments Off on Inflation Monitor – 2.28.2019

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The Zeitgeist | 3.5.2019

By Ben Hunt | March 5, 2019 | 5 Comments

Fiat News and Narrative construction galore in today’s set of the most on-narrative financial media articles.

What links them all? Dopamine is a helluva drug.

In the Flow – Why Your Long-Vol Allocation Isn’t Working

By Ben Hunt | March 4, 2019 | Comments Off on In the Flow – Why Your Long-Vol Allocation Isn’t Working

It’s not impossible for market volatility to spike massively through some deflationary shock to the financial system like a China-driven credit crisis or an Italy-driven euro crisis. What’s impossible is TO GET PAID for taking out an insurance policy against the last war.

The Zeitgeist | 3.4.2019

By Ben Hunt | March 4, 2019 | 1 Comment

The new Zeitgeist is here! Now with all the snippets and twice the snark.

Every morning, we run The Narrative Machine on the past 24 hours worth of financial media to find the articles that are representative of some sort of chord that has been struck in Narrative-world. They’re not the best articles – often far from it – but they will arm you for the Narrative wars of the day ahead.

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

By Ben Hunt | March 3, 2019 | 12 Comments

Why are institutional investors in trouble with the new Zeitgeist of capital markets transformed into a political utility?

Because everything you think you know about portfolio diversification will fail. Because emerging markets are going to be crushed before this is over. Because everyone’s inflation-investing muscles have atrophied to the point of helplessness. Because you think long-vol and crisis-alpha are things.

The Zeitgeist | 3.1.2019

By Rusty Guinn | March 1, 2019 | 0 Comments

BATs vs. FAANGs, trading against institutions, trading with institutions, why Americans buy cars and a shocking J.C. Penney news bulletin.