- Senior Fed official signals doubts over pause in US rate rises – FT
- The Fed’s job gets harder – FT Unhedged
- Yellen Says ‘We Have to Default’ on Something If Congress Fails – Bloomberg
- Markets Are Not Sweating the Debt Ceiling – Bloomberg Opinion
- Regional Bank Volatility Persists – Barron’s
- The 14th Amendment and the Debt Ceiling Stand-Off – Barron’s
- Is Chinese power about to peak? – Economist
Month: May 2023
Thursday’s links
- Inflation inflection – FT Unhedged
- Wall Street Loads Up on Hedges Against Market Selloff – Bloomberg
- Swedish real estate sector rattled as refinancing worries surface – FT
- Americans May Be Getting Used to High Inflation; That’s Bad News – WSJ
- SEC’s Hedge Fund Rule Fails to Solve Two Main Problems – Bloomberg Opinion
- Bond Selloff Adds to the Pressure on Regional Banks – WSJ
- China’s Consumer Inflation Slows to 2-Year Low; Recovery Is Stalling – Barron’s
- Oil futures fall, with recession worries pulling prices down – MarketWatch
Wednesday’s links
- The Coin, the Constitution, Premium Bonds: Debt Limit Workarounds – NYT
- US inflation eases to 4.9% in April as Fed tightening takes effect – FT
- What the Fed Missed in Its Bank Crisis Confessional – Bloomberg Opinion
- Druckenmiller Says US on Brink of a Recession, Sees Hard Landing – Bloomberg
- CPI Report Shows Inflation Eased in April but Remains Stubbornly High – WSJ
Tuesday’s links
- Fed could be on the verge of repeating its 1970s mistake – CNN Business
- US lenders warned that commercial property is ‘next shoe to drop’ – FT
- Banking Is Stable? It’s an Illusion – Bloomberg Opinion
- Federal Reserve warns of credit crunch risk after US bank turmoil – FT
- Congress must act to protect smaller banks from investor nerves – FT Opinion
- Home Prices Fell in Much of the U.S. During First Quarter – WSJ
- What a U.S. Default Would Mean for Money-Market Funds – Barron’s
- Calls for short-sale ban increase as regional-bank stocks wobble – MarketWatch
Monday’s links
- Local stress: The US regional banks under pressure – FT
- Utter Chaos at the Short End of the Treasury Market – Wolf Street
- Preferreds Get Burned in Historic Rout Spreading From Banks – Bloomberg
- Factory Boom in US Drives Sales Surge for Excavators, Steel, & Trucks – WSJ
- Yellen warns of ‘constitutional crisis’ over US debt ceiling impasse – FT
- The problem with concentrated power – FT Opinion
- Pozsar’s Writing Is Dense, Esoteric— And a Hit – WSJ *
- What’s Happening to the Banking System? – Cullen Roche *
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Friday’s links
- Jobs up by 253,000 jobs, unemployment fell to 3.4% amid banking turmoil, rising interest rates and still-high inflation – WSJ
- Investors are waking up to America’s debt dysfunction – FT
- JPMorgan Sees Investors Moving to Gold, Tech Amid Recession Risk – Bloomberg
- The rate raising cycle is moving into its final stages – FT Opinion
- Powell Thinks the Fed Can Tame Inflation Without Recession – Barron’s
- Gold retreats as U.S. jobs report casts doubt on Fed pause – MarketWatch
- What the Market Is Saying About the Fed’s Next Move – Barron’s
Thursday’s links
- A Debt Deal Could Help Solve the Country’s Inflation Problem – Greg Ip via WSJ
- ECB raises rates as Lagarde warns of ‘more ground to cover’ – FT
- Powell’s “Word Soup” Confuses Fed Watchers – Bloomberg Opinion
- Shipper Maersk warns of ‘radically changed’ world as profits tumble – FT
- China Takes the Yuan Global in Bid to Repel a Weaponized Dollar – Bloomberg
- We have gone back to bailing out the banks – FT Opinion
- Pushback Against Powell’s Prognosis Comes Almost Immediately – Bloomberg
- The Fed: no secrets, no promises – FT Unhedged
- Treasury Yields May Fall to 2% as Gundlach, Banks Eye Recession – Bloomberg
- Schrödinger’s insolvency: Unrealized losses on global USD portfolios – Daniel Neilson *
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Wednesday’s links
- Federal Reserve poised to implement another quarter-point rate rise – FT
- Avoiding Stagflation Will Take Brave Central Banks – Bloomberg Opinion
- Chile’s move to control lithium alarms industry – FT
- Bank runs are different now – FT Unhedged
- Treasury’s 2024 regular buyback plan faces ‘extreme skepticism’ at Jefferies – MarketWatch
- US Treasury to Launch First Buyback Program Since 2000 – WSJ
- Risk of Fed fissures grows as inflation fight tests resolve – FT Opinion
- Federal Reserve Raises Rates, Signals Potential Pause – WSJ
Tuesday’s links
- Investors warn of First Republic aftershocks – FT
- Russia Nears Economic Milestone of Buying Yuan – Bloomberg
- Analysts expect smaller ECB rate rises despite uptick in inflation – FT
- To Control Inflation, the Fed Needs to Relearn Monetarism – Barron’s Opinion
- Bank failures put pressure on Federal Reserve’s inflation fighters – FT
- Half of America’s banks are already insolvent – how a credit crunch begins – Telegraph
- The Banking Crisis Might Not Be Over Yet – NYT Opinion
Monday’s links
- Stock Market Calm Rekindles Debate Over Fed Tightening – WSJ
- BOE Warns Taxpayer Faces £100 Billion Net Losses on UK QE Program – Bloomberg
- ECB’s inflation dilemma: can Lagarde silence her critics again? – FT
- Equity Bulls Count on Fed-Cycle Math That Worked For Decades – Bloomberg
- Berkshire’s Munger: US banks are ‘full of’ bad commercial property loans – FT
- Fed and ECB to set rates as banking turmoil mounts – FT
- Fed Set to Raise Interest Rates to 16-Year High and Debate a Pause – WSJ
- Hedge Funds Bet Dollar to Erase Hike-Cycle Gains as Fed Peaks – Bloomberg
- Slow Dance Between Markets and Central Banks – John Authers via Bloomberg