Sitemap - 2021 - The Credit Writedowns Newsletter

Goodbye to Credit Writedowns

Risks to growth and inflation helping keep long rates down

What's your model on how real GDP grows durably?

Do inflation expectations even matter anymore?

The Death of the US Treasury Bond Vigilante

US jobs report fails to reinforce tapering narrative; bad news is good news

ADP and claims data show US employment progress

The macro crystal ball: macro framing and historical antecedents

Where were claims at this point in the last cycle?

How transitory is transitory, housing edition?

How Transitory is Transitory?

Chinese regulation, the top of the market and investing in the future

Europe: Don't call it a comeback

Buy the rumour and sell the news aka sell in May and go away

European tech is about to explode

Will the Fed(s) stay the course?

Americans paid not to work

Ugly

The full-on pandemic, the full re-opening, and the Exponential Age

European vaccination, Manchin, and Republican infrastructure spell European outperformance

Tax and spend, crony capitalism and the peasant revolt

Winning the footrace against the variants and approaching the new normal

The Crypto land grab concept and technological displacement

A quick word on bond vigilantism and market mania

Crypto: a sea change in how we gain trust

The 'interregnum' of risks to the upside as yields turn down

More on inflation, the mutant wave in Canada, the stall in rates and the new normal

The inflation bogeyman and the Fed reaction function

Context for my bullish outlook in the US

Bullish news on the US jobs front

Some reasonably bullish thoughts on the fourth US wave

Jobless claims under pre-pandemic peak for first time

European coronavirus update and its implications

Covid-19 waves, EM canaries, and large cap tech optionality

On the Fed's playing chicken with the bond vigilantes

Short-covering in Treasuries and a third wave in Europe

Three Market Narratives

The return of the reverse radical recovery

The US economy firing on all cylinders? Hardly

Some forward-looking views on the economy and bonds

When will central banks lose control of bond markets?

Explaining my shift in tone briefly

Thinking about the blowoff top

Vaccine hopium or light at the end of the tunnel?

A reckoning in the EU and more on US yield curve steepening

Shades of 2018 as steepening yield curve great for banks, not tech

Bullish economic thoughts and the three yield curve outcomes

Weak jobs data highlight the economic impact of pandemic

Jobless claims show US coast is clear except for mutations

Epidemiological tail risk in an era of missing price signals

How to think about the GameStop saga

The pandemic, gamma squeezes and intergenerational conflict

Three yield curve outcomes and grey swans

The reflation trade and three yield curve outcomes

Jump in initial claims to 965,000

Some thoughts on this latest wave of coronavirus

Job losses may be the norm for a few months

Hope and Risk

ADP data point to downside economic risk in US

Happy new year 2021