Goldman Sachs Bets on a Frictionless Global Recovery
The Rearview Mirror FallacyJan Hatzius is selling a dream of frictionless growth. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Global Macro Conference…
The Rearview Mirror FallacyJan Hatzius is selling a dream of frictionless growth. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Global Macro Conference…
The bill is due Markets ignored the math for three years. They assumed the era of cheap money was a…
The Monetary Council Refuses to BlinkThe National Bank of Hungary (NBH) held its ground. It met for the first time…
The end of inert assetsGold is heavy. It is silent. It sits in vaults and does nothing. For five millennia,…
The Arithmetic of Survival The biosphere is not a balance sheet. Capital markets disagree. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)…
Beijing Mandates the Margin The bleeding stopped because the state took the scalpel. China reported a marginal uptick in industrial…
The Midwest is a pressure cooker Minneapolis is the valve. Today, that valve failed. The federal crackdown known as Operation…
The Gravy Train Hits the BuffersThe music stopped. Wall Street stood paralyzed this morning as the federal government finally pulled…
The Stagnation SignalBerlin is quiet. Too quiet. The Ifo Business Climate Index for January arrived today with a dull thud.…
The Sound of Boardroom Silence in the Twin CitiesFederal agents fired shots. The corporate suite stayed silent. Minnesota is the…