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| Last | Change | |
| S&P futures | 4,452 | -31.2 |
| Oil (WTI) | 94.55 | -3.69 |
| 10 year government bond yield | 2.76% | |
| 30 year fixed rate mortgage | 5.13% |
Stocks are lower this morning as COVID cases ramp up on China. Bonds and MBS are down.
The upcoming week has some inflation data with CPI and PPI on Tuesday and Wednesday. These readings will reflect the impact of the Russian invasion on food and energy prices, and the Street is looking for 8.4% inflation on the headline number and 6.6% ex-food and energy. The Producer Price Index, which measures wholesale inflation is expected to come in at 10% on the headline number and 8.4% ex-food and energy.
My guess is that the Fed is going to hike by 50 basis points at the May meeting regardless of how the numbers come in, so it shouldn’t be market-moving. That said, bond investors are in a “shoot first and ask questions later” mood, so we could see a sell-off regardless.
Mortgage backed security spreads (which are basically the yield on a mortgage backed security minus the yield on the corresponding treasury) are at 1.15%, which is well over long-term averages. Historically, it has been around 0.9%, so perhaps mortgage rates will stabilize around these levels. One can only hope.
The big fear in the markets right now is that the Fed is going to cause a recession in 2023 as increasing interest rates sap economic growth. Investors are watching the spread between the 10 year bond and the 2 year bond as an indicator. If the economy is heading into a recession, you would expect to see corporate bond yields creeping up, and that is most certainly not the case.
Amazon.com just issued a 40 year bond at Treasuries + 1.55%. This means you can tie up your money at 40 years an earn a whopping 4.3% per year. In retailing, 40 years is eons. Who were the top retailers in the early 1980s? Federated Department stores, Sears, K Mart, F.W. Woolworth, and Dayton-Hudson (Wal Mart was still in the early growth stage). Federated became known as Macy’s, and Dayton-Hudson is know known as Target.
What do the top 4 have in common? They all have declared bankruptcy at some point, and their debt traded down to distressed levels.
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All Things in Moderation 
RePet from the 6th Day is here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/11/clone-pets-cat-science/
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_6th_Day
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My stolen election is real while it’s criminal to even discuss yours
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wonder what bernie thinks of that.
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He’s so beholden to the Party that there’s nothing he can say. He’s completely impotent.
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FYI, I’ve been on a road trip and have been listening to Bill Barr’s new book , One Damn Thing After Another. I’m not quite done yet, but I definitely recommend it. Very interesting.
One surprising thing….at one point Barr approvingly quotes Matt Taibbi.
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What was the context of the quote?
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jnc:
What was the context of the quote?
It was in the chapter discussing the on-going progressive assault on religious liberty, and the attempt to use public education systems to undermine traditional Judeo-Christian morality and impose progressive moral notions. He says that, among the “hodgepodge” of postmodern ideas that progressives are pushing in public schools, there are the 2 overarching ideas that permeate the movement and make it subversive of religion in general. When speaking about the first of these, which he describes as being defined by its opposition to, and program for dismantling, society’s traditions and norms, he quotes Taibbi’s characterization of it as “a united front of negation composed of a melange of oppositional ideologies.”
Since I have it on audio rather than the printed book, I can’t tell whether Taibbi’s quote is just the first part, ie “united front of negation”, or the entire line.
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Looks like he was referencing this:
“Conversely, a wide variety of oppositional theologies, of varying degrees of eccentricity, have become allied in a unified front of negation:”
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/is-critical-race-theory-the-wrong?s=r
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Last week I flew to SLC and spent 3 days in Park City. Aside from the airport and airplane, I did not see a mask. I was startled that liberal playground/enclave like Park City was utterly devoid of masks.
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