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This makes me realize that if america was attacked by aliens, our first response would be to lower interest rates
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Yikes. Exclude the big 5 (Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Google) and U.S. earnings were down 7.5% in the 4th quarter. H/t @AndrewLapthorne of SocGen
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Here's the link to @RayDalio 's post on @LinkedIn : "The World Has Gone Mad and the System Is Broken." It is (rightly) attracting a lot of attention.
linkedin.com/pulse/world-has…
#economy #markets
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The IMF examined funds representing 60% of $10.6 trillion in debt assets globally to see if they’d be able to meet the most severe outflows they’d had since 2000. It found that almost 17% of all debt fund assets would face a “liquidity shortfall.”
ft.com/content/e5edad9a-4bf4…
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#FederalReserve assets approach $4T again, up from $3.76T at the start of September. Did I miss an announcement of QE4? Oh, no, it is just Fed adding liquidity in response to #repo crisis; aka Quantitative Easing By Stealth 😜
"Quantum supremacy" arrives as a Google machine cracks a problem impossible for standard computers. Real deal seminal moment. h/t News Items from @41jellis, story @FT on.ft.com/2kVguxW
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I have read this, and read this, and read this. I’m not sure that I ever need to read anything else.
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called my parents yesterday extremely concerned about the hurricane & asked them to take the cats & go up north for the weekend. they assured me they were fine and that no matter what they’d take care of my cats. I got this txt today(yes that’s hose water and no im not amused😂) – at Louisiana, USA
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A key question hanging over the market today: how much of the global slowdown is due to trade tensions, versus cracks in an aging economic cycle that were there even before the recent escalation in the U.S.-China spat? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Un-reality check: Greek government 5 year bond yields are now lower than US government 5 year bond yields.
Owning a Car Will Soon Be as Quaint as Owning a Horse nyti.ms/2HO09nC. Probably right and certainly not priced in.
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The pool of negative yielding debt has risen to a new post-2017 high of $9.2 trillion. Mind boggling at a time when the global economy is supposedly still recovering. This is the market value of Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Negative Yielding Debt index.
JPMorgan is creating its own cryptocurrency @CNN cnn.it/2UVXUSH. But the big one will be Facebook's. My explainer here: ricepartners.com/library/













