TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the January Jobs Report
Friday, February 3, 2012
Donald Luskin
A big surprise -- merely average jobs growth! But where are the FOMC's
"significant risks"?
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On Q4 2011 GDP
Friday, January 27, 2012
Donald Luskin
Four years after the last business cycle peak, real output has grown
less than 1%.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the January FOMC
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Donald Luskin
Today's real news: the Fed implicitly confesses it will not pay
attention to inflation anymore.
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MACROCOSM
Risk Reappraisal
Friday, January 20, 2012
Donald Luskin
Stocks rise as earnings disappoint, while investors rethink how risky
the world really isn't.
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MACROCOSM
S&P Reprise Reprieve
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Europe's downgrade was an already discounted non-event -- but all the
old issues remain.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the January ECB Rate
Decision
Wednesday, January 12, 2012
Lorcan Roche Kelly
The ECB has done enough for the moment -- and maybe enough for the
banks. MORE>>
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MACROCOSM
Cash for Gold!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Donald Luskin
Gold should rally as the market realizes the ECB has embarked on major
QE.
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MACROCOSM
Le Collateral
Friday, January 6, 2012
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Altruism or desperation? French banks just listed 8,067 new instruments
with the ECB.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the December Jobs Report
Friday, January 6, 2012
Donald Luskin
This supposedly big upside surprise in jobs was neither big nor
surprising.
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MACROCOSM
2011: A Lost Year
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Donald Luskin
So much risk -- yet nothing
happened. Sadly, the key risks of 2011 are still in place for 2012.
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MACROCOSM
Europe's Wall of
Liquidity
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly and
Donald Luskin
The risk of a Lehman-like banking crisis for Europe is essentially off the table now.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the December FOMC
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Donald Luskin
A more optimistic Fed isn't likely to ease, but there are new sources of
global liquidity.MORE>>
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MACROCOSM
E Pluribus 26
Monday, December 12, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
It could only happen in Europe -- a summit that strengthens integration
loses the UK.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the ECB Monetary
Policy Decisions
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly and
Donald Luskin
The ECB met expectations, but dashed hopes. But spillovers may mean
de facto Fed QE3.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the November Jobs Report
Friday, December 2, 2011
Donald Luskin
It's an illusion. If the economy were sharply improving, unemployment
would go up.
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MACROCOSM
It Only Feels Like Blood in the
Streets
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Donald Luskin
Stocks are still very cheap, with little risk of recession, and a bet
that Europe will survive.
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MACROCOSM
Saved by an Acronym
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Europe's alphabet soup is getting cold. But there's a new recipe
cooking.
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MACROCOSM
Europe's New Lenders of
Last Resort
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Three more national central banks now engage in Emergency Liquidity
Assistance. MORE>>
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MACROCOSM
QE Nein
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Europe's long-term vision needs a short-term ECB lifeline -- but
prejudice and politics block it.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the Super-Committee Failure
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Donald Luskin
We're shocked... shocked! ...to find failure going on in this congress. MORE>>
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THOUGHT CONTAGIONS
Europe Gets MAD
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Donald Luskin
G-Pap opened Pandora's Box -- stocks are amazingly strong facing new
risk of euro dissolution. MORE>>
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MACROCOSM
Rome Makes Athens Look
Good
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Greece moves along the road to political stability, and Italy grudgingly
steps onto it.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the October Jobs Report
Friday, November 4, 2011
Donald Luskin
The numbers were good. No recession here. But the numbers were small. No
growth, either. MORE>>
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the November ECB Rate
Decision
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Draghi starts to unwind Trichet's errors, and keeps Europe's debt safety
net in place.
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MACROCOSM
Papandemonium!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
The Euro area calls Papandreou's referendum bluff. There are limits to
debtor's leverage.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the November FOMC
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Donald Luskin
A darker forecast now
explains "operation twist" -- and the Fed stands ready to do more.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the Greek Referendum Surprise,
Volume 2
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Markets will flail until Europe passes the biggest test yet of its
muddle through crisis strategy.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the Greek Referendum
Surprise
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Deja vu for world markets -- Greece ups the ante of panic once again.
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MACROCOSM
Not Crazy, Still Cheap
Monday, October 31, 2011
Donald Luskin
Stocks have soared as the
equity risk premium has mean-reverted. Where to from here?
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the Europe Summit
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
A 50% Greek default -- and
the only contagion is a celebration in global stock markets.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On Q3 2011 GDP
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Donald Luskin
How can 2.5% growth be at consensus, when the consensus expects a
recession?
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MACROCOSM
Agree to Agree... on
Wednesday
Monday, October 24, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Europe fired blanks at the weekend's summit. One more chance for a real
shootout.
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MACROCOSM
It's This Simple
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Donald Luskin
Either Europe blows up, or not. When it doesn't, we'll learn how much
damage we've taken.
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MACROCOSM
Six Days to What?
Monday, October 17, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
A resolution to the Greek crisis is a key coming catalyst, but Europe's
woes will remain.
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MACROCOSM
Stress Test for Europe's
Banks, and Its Politics
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Dexia's failure clarifies Europe's mind on banks -- now we wait for
Slovakia's EFSF vote. MORE>>
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the September Jobs Report
Friday, October 7, 2011
Donald Luskin
An upside headline surprise -- still weak, but encouraging when you look
deeper inside. MORE>>
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On ECB and BOE October
Rate Decisions
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Massive QE for the UK, and continued growth-killing rates for the Euro
area. MORE>>
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MACROCOSM
Europe Fails, US Stocks Flail
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Donald Luskin and
Lorcan Roche Kelly
The stench of systemic risk from Europe drives stocks to generational
value levels. MORE>>
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MACROCOSM
Infectious Fear
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Donald Luskin
Recession creeps closer -- but absent a systemic hard-stop, stocks are
amazingly cheap.
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TRENDMACRO LIVE!
On the September FOMC
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Donald Luskin
Another minimalist "do something" move, with three dissents -- against
"significant" risks.
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MACROCOSM
Greece: Down to the Wire
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Lorcan Roche Kelly
It's hard bargaining as usual, but default will be deferred until the
new EFSF is ready to go. MORE>>
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MACROCOSM
Too Few Good Men
Friday, September 9, 2011
Donald Luskin and
Lorcan Roche Kelly
Trichet almost admits his mistake, Obama repeats his, and Bernanke
maintains course.
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