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In 2016, I argued that post-Volcker monetary policy increasingly employed the wealth effect. By this reckoning, higher-for-longer financing costs are a potential game changer. Today’s 28x multiple seems precarious, as the wealth effect cuts both ways.

Adventures of The OG Quant. Great article about my old pal, Dean LeBaron, who literally opened China to U.S. investors.

P&F roundup via 3% box size, my minimum increment for trend following. Upshot? Mixed message warrants caution pending further chart development.

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Note to self: Initial preponderance of AAII bears is not always constructive. Never a layup, is it? 🏀

ITB as well.

If you need an indicator to tell you sentiment is extreme, it’s not. –Walter Deemer

Buzzworthy.

That yields have broken their secular downtrend doesn’t preclude cyclical reversion. What makes reversion likely? 1) It happened during the inflationary 1970s. 2) Battleships don’t turn on a dime. Any deflationary whiff is likely to spark memories of ZIRP-style repression.

There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich. –Charles P. Kindleberger

Mid-week humor

TLT vaults resistance, targeting 95-ish.

Rut roh.

FXI global leadership: three down, one to go.

Got China?

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Breakout shakeout. Never a layup, is it?

Signing off early. Great weekend, everyone!

FXI is replicating its 2008/09 reversal pattern via 10% box size, suggesting a direct move to the low 40s.

P&F breakout eyes SPX 6600.

XHB change of character.

SPX high-level consolidation favors continuation. –KISS Dept.

Global trilemma, anyone? 🤔

GLD has reached a trend channel objective while testing multi-year resistance versus SPX. Caution is warranted despite ostensible tailwind from geopolitical uncertainty.

Great roundup from Jeff deGraaf, the one and only “fully invested bear.” renmac-media.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/02132025+-+J...

FXI is developing global leadership. A higher high versus VGK would support the case. A lower low versus SPX would derail it.

Signing off early. Great weekend, everyone!

TLT shakeout surrounding ostensibly hot CPI suggests last point of supply.

How undervalued is China? A hypothetical reversion to the HSI/SPX bottom of 1998 would require a near doubling in relative strength.

Impressive rebound in U.S. bonds given ostensibly hot CPI. 🤔

High-level consolidation so far.

CPI on deck.

China long-term perspective, basis Hang Seng Index.

Hugging the line at month twenty-nine.

Signing off early. Great weekend, everyone!

GLD big-picture trend channel. H/t @TechCharts

Jobs report dead ahead.

XHB is raising red flags.

Seven questions from the late great Alan Shaw. (Floating question can arise anywhere in sequence.)