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After decades of market liberalism and fiscal fundamentalism, policymakers are returning to Keynes.  Jeff Snider reacts to two recent articles: "Bond yields are not good predictors of inflation" (Peterson Institute for International Economics) and "Why economists kept getting the policies wrong" (Financial Times).----------WHERE----------Vurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPodchaser: https://bit.ly/3oFCrwNPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39XjrAlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3roy----------WHEN----------01:02 Two economists write that bond yields are not good predictors of inflation03:20 Bond yields have failed to predict inflation for 70 years in the US; three other countries 05:31 Why economists kept getting the policies wrong08:01 Was monetarism was derailed by poor philosophy? Or because measures of money failed?11:43 Monetarism ditched, so first came currency exchange targeting then inflation targeting.13:26 Positive Economics, econometrics promised wonderful, impossible things 16:11 Central Bankers use mathematics as a shield against criticism18:42 We are back where we started, time to dust off Keynes General Theory.----------WHAT----------Teenagers baffled by rotary phone: https://youtu.be/oHNEzndgiFIBond yields are not good predictors of inflation: https://bit.ly/2Zz7dwdWhy economists kept getting the policies wrong: https://on.ft.com/2ZwAgAwAlhambra Investments Blog: https://bit.ly/2VIC2wWRealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7----------WHO----------Jeff Snider, Head of Global Investment Research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski. Art by the King of the North, David Parkins.

Financial historian Daniel Oliver's essay on the systemic consequence of the 1907 short squeeze on United Copper Company and lessons for today.  A reading, by Emil Kalinowski.----------WHO----------Daniel Oliver of Myrmikan Capital, LLC. Read by Emil Kalinowski. Art by David Parkins. Intro/outro is "Alienated" by ELFL at Epidemic Sound.----------WHAT----------The Final Pop: https://bit.ly/37sfwOH----------WHERE----------Myrmikan's Writings: http://myrmikan.com/Myrmikan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MyrmikanEmil's Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmilKalinowskiArt: https://davidparkins.com/Vurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPodchaser: https://bit.ly/3oFCrwNPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39Xjr

Having studied monetary policy for several years it was only natural that your podcaster spent considerable time contemplating the essential elements of fiction. Some experts say there are five components to it; others put the tally at six, even eight! But at the core it has always been the three elements: plot, setting and character.  Plot was perfected, in the Western tradition at least, in the late 16th century by Shakespeare with the 5-act dramatic structure. Setting, given short-shrift for millennia, did not achieve co-equal status until the gothic novels of the mid-18th century. And character? Scholars point back 28 centuries to The Iliad: heroism, cowardice, pride, hubris - wrath. But the scholars are wrong. Character wasn't perfected first, but last. Not until the 1980s action drama The A-Team did this element of fiction reach its zenith.The American television masterpiece synthesized what the Great Books dared not imagine into the now classic quartet: Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith as the brains; Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck as the looks; Sergeant Bosco Baracus the muscle; Captain H.M. Murdock the wildcard. The casting blueprint can be observed most everywhere; in the arts, at the office; even family the dinner table. Central banking is no exception. In the role of the brains is Ben "Hannibal" Bernanke. The looks? Lady Lagarde. The muscle? Jay "Mad Dog" Powell. The wildcard? The audience will naturally point to Haruhiko Kuroda and, before January 28th, the audience would have been correct.On that day Isabel Schnabel, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, gave a speech extolling the virtues of the sovereign-bank-corporate nexus. That is technocrat-speak for the government-guaranteed private-bank loans to private enterprise. Schnabel endorsed these "crucial" national loan schemes and encouraged Europe's capitals to continue them, warning any premature end would be "destabilising". Put another way, the baton that represents the supervision of money creation, has been wrested away from Frankfurt and placed into the neatly manicured hands of politicians, seeking re-election.The new wildcard is not Isabel Schnabel but the Euro Area member state. All 19 of them.In this episode we touch upon 1980s television shows, like CHiPs and interbank clearing mechanisms, like CHIPS. Also, why are corporate elephants on the hunt for fast-moving gazelle enterprises? Why are these elephants being offered their own fiefdoms in Nevada? Lastly, a potpourri review of Jeff Snider's recent writing.----------WHY----------PART 01: Private banks fund global economic activity. But how do they move money among themselves? PART 02: Nevada Governor Sisolak is proposing to offer corporations to set up their own local government structures. PART 03: Cautionary sign posts that say this reflationary path may not be the road to recovery but a deflationary cul-de-sac.----------WHERE----------Vurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPodchaser: https://bit.ly/3oFCrwNPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39XjrAlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3roy----------WHAT----------There's Much More Going On Than You've Been Led to Believe: https://bit.ly/3qhFnAqThe Endangered Inflationary Species: Gazelles: https://bit.ly/3dbuIDqThe Cautionary Tale of Undocumented Insanity: https://bit.ly/3deHyRIPermanent Jobs, Permanent Job Losses: https://bit.ly/37fgD47Old Numbers Show Us Why There Will be New Checks: https://bit.ly/3b41FPM----------WHO----------Jeff Snider, Head of Global Investment Research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski, Tyrell Corporation full-time equivalent. Art by David Parkins. Podcast intro/outro is "City Lights, City Dreams" by Forever Sunset at Epidemic Sound.

Jeff Snider reacts LIVE! to an article from The Economist. The magazine offers three arguments why the US economy might overheat in 2021: evidence that the downturn is temporary; generous fiscal stimulus; and the Federal Reserve’s monetary-policy strategy.----------WHERE----------Vurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPodchaser: https://bit.ly/3oFCrwNPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39XjrAlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3roy----------WHEN----------00:55 Why won't a large fiscal stimulus (e.g. Biden's 9% of US GDP) save a post-2008 economy?03:39 Why won't a large fiscal stimulus overheat a post-2008 economy?06:46 Why aren't the positive employment gains of July-December 2020 positive?08:13 Why isn't a pool of excess savings indicative of potential activity in a post-2008 economy?11:38 Did the Federal Reserve learn the right lesson from the 2013 "taper tantrum"?14:19 Why won't the Fed's new "average inflation" strategy not make save a post-2008 economy?----------WHAT----------The Economist, Fire without Fury: https://econ.st/3qnkWSuAlhambra Investments Blog: https://bit.ly/2VIC2wWRealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7----------WHO----------Jeff Snider, Head of Global Investment Research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski, seeing what the tide brought in. Art by David Parkins. Podcast intro/outro is "Chasing Visions" by vvano at Epidemic Sound.

Sophocles won 24 of the 30 literary competitions he entered, placing second in the rest. Of his 120-plus plays, only seven survive. Eratosthenes, calculated the Earth's circumference with breathtaking accuracy. As Chief Librarian of the Library of Alexandria he oversaw the collation of hundreds of thousands of works. But not even his own "On the Measure of the Earth" survived the Library's progressive destruction by war, negligence and cultural revolution.Rashid-al-Din Hamadani created the first world history, taking advantage of his location at the crossroads of a Mongol empire with access to European, Arabic, Persian, Indian, Mongol and Chinese scholars. Hamadani, not wanting his masterpiece to be lost to time, arranged to have the work copied in Arabic and Persian every year and distributed. But his patron's death and royal intrigues cost him his station and us his work; no complete copy survives.Several scholars, dizzy by the thought of humanity's lost knowledge, tried their hand at wistful, melancholy catalogues of what might have been. Thomas Browne wrote Musaeum Clausum, "an imagined inventory of 'remarkable books, antiquities, pictures and rarities of several kinds, scarce or never seen by any man now living.'" Besides Seneca's epistles to St. Paul, this hidden library houses history's most famous box within which was the perfume of infection responsible for the 17th century Plague of Milan.Of course there's a difference between the tragedy of lost knowledge and the tomfoolery of what was willfully forgotten. It is the latter which financial market participants specialize in. John Kenneth Galbraith lamented that, "There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts so little as in the world of finance." James Grant concurs, laconically noting that, "Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance." And so, in Episode 45 the Rashid-al-Din of the Eurodollar will help us un-forget the three reflations since 2007 and how they compare to present-day. But first we review why US Treasury Bill Yields may be so low.----------WHY----------Part 01: There is a mainstream explanation for why US Treasury Bill rates are falling. There is also a Eurodollar / Shadow Money / Collateral System explanation. Jeff Snider reviews the two perspectives and looks ahead to where trouble may lay.Part 02: We look through the lenses of the dollar, Treasury yields, inflation breakevens, swap spreads to see how this Post-Covid reflation compares to the three economic recoveries of the past 13 years: Green Shoots (2009-10), Global Growth (2012-14) and Globally Synchronized Growth (2016-18).----------WHERE----------Vurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPodchaser: https://bit.ly/3oFCrwNPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39XjrAlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3roy----------WHAT----------Let’s Talk Bills (again): https://bit.ly/3q6tJs9Hey Bill, *What* Is It?: https://bit.ly/3rs3Ov3Hey Bill, *Why* Now?: https://bit.ly/2MGohxxReaching Half A Year, What’s The (Complete) Reflation Situation?: https://bit.ly/2OchADQAlhambra Investments Blog: https://bit.ly/2VIC2wWRealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7----------WHO----------Jeff Snider, Head of Global Investment Research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski, piling the bologna high and deep. Evolutionary sketches by David Parkins aboard the HMS Beagle. Podcast intro/outro is "Stand Divided" by Deskant at Epidemic Sound.

As many listeners have long suspected, your podcast host did, as a child, run away and join the circus.  Not dissimilar from a traditional childhood, it was your classic Gypsy camp.  If children misbehaved, we would be "lock[ed]... into stocks, or throw[n]... into a cage and hoist[ed]... into the flytower... dangling precariously over the stage." Our ringmaster, Giuseppe Grimaldi "was horribly morbid, living in perpetual fear of death, and especially of being buried alive.  When he finally died... his will directed that his eldest daughter cut his head from his corpse just to be certain." Sure, perhaps quirky, but certainly not the oddest troupe - not Pandemonium Carnival. So, looking to make a career of it your podcaster tried his hand at clownship. But, by that time, famous clowns like Pagliacci, Pennywise and Pogo were, despite slaying their audience with their routines, giving a bad name to the profession. So then, this host turned to tarot card reading and hypnosis. Despite earning some minor acclaim in London as Madame Simza, your host simply didn't have the chops and was forced to turn to the only option left: a Masters in Business Administration. Surprisingly, it was an easy fit. Tarot cards - which "illuminate your past, clarify [the] present, show... the future" - had taught me everything I needed to know about finance. The card "Temperance, [when] inverted [is] indicative of volatility." If one draws "The Fool, someone has been led astray" - an investment fraud. "The Two of Cups?" It represents "a powerful bond" - a sovereign bond. Your podcaster learned about hypnosis too, except that the economics professors used different terms for it: expectations policy, forward guidance, moral suasion.----------WHY----------Part 01: Central banks cannot define, identify, measure or map modern money. And they haven't been able to since the 1970s. So instead they offer "moral suasion". That's a fancy word for threats, posturing and coercion. That's all fine and well until the global economy requires money.Part 02: How does one define an asset bubble? Might there be fundamental, non-speculative reasons why prices are persistently high? Also, why did money-financed fiscal expansion fail in Japan? What does that experience tell us about the present?----------SPONSOR----------But first, this from Eurodollar Enterprises! Friends, are you worried your monetary policies are causing lurid levels of inequality? Are you concerned civil war, its hour come round at last, slouches toward K Street? Do you worry how your supple neck will fare when the blood-dimmed tide is loosed? Then the new Eurodollar Enterprises Second Skin Neck Brace is for you! Yes, strut through The Waste Land knowing that marauding lynch mobs of War Boys pose no danger. The carbon-fibre nanoweave is comfortable, flexible and the ultimate luxury in an April dystopia you hastened. Barter aquacola for guzzoline at Thunderdome with no concern of the guillotine. Is that the Road Warrior with a chainsaw? Then save your skin... with your Second Skin Neck Brace. New! From Eurodollar Enterprises.----------WHERE----------Vurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPodchaser: https://bit.ly/3oFCrwNPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39XjrAlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3roy----------WHAT----------Suasion, Sure, But Is It Really Moral?: https://bit.ly/3bXMsBQIf the Fed’s Not In Consumer Prices, Then How About Producer Prices?: https://bit.ly/2NomiOd(Reinhart & Sbrancia) The Liquidation of Government Debt: https://bit.ly/363NUih(Van Metre & Ashton) Everything You Wanted to Know About Inflation: https://bit.ly/2LZ8OZ5The Fundamentals of the Bond ‘Bubble’: https://bit.ly/3qI1D6cWhen They Introduced An Even Longer Gov’t Bond: https://bit.ly/3qCYhBwThey Keep Assuring Us Japan Can't Happen Here: https://bit.ly/39UfwHPWhat is a Concentration Camp?: https://bit.ly/3iCN6G2Alhambra Investments Blog: https://bit.ly/2VIC2wWRealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7----------WHO----------Jeff Snider, Head of Global Investment Research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski, troubled by definitions. Artwork by David Parkins. Podcast intro/outro is "Whispering of the Stars" by Luella Gren at Epidemic Sound.

A recent Hidden Forces podcast with Demetri Kofinas featured professor Kevin Vallier and his new book "Trust in a Polarized Age". Vallier notes that Americans are less trusting than at any point since at least the 1960s. The timing is no surprise to any that read William Strauss and Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning. The "American High" - a period of confidence during which the society felt it could accomplish anything - ended with President Kennedy's assassination. That phenomenon - that lack of trust, that lack of confidence - can be observed even in the University of Michigan survey of consumers. During the 1950s expectations about the future always ran ahead of the contemporary condition; an optimism, whether the present was good or bad, that it would be even better soon.  But, by the end of the 1960s, and ever since, expectations are always worse than the present. If we use confidence in democracy as a proxy for trust, that phenomenon is not solely American. A University of Cambridge project that includes 4 million people, covering 154 countries and combines over 25 international surveys showed 2019 to have been "the highest level of democratic discontent on record". Surely 2020 will rank even worse when results are finally published.A more granular survey by Gallup has been conducted in the United States since the early 1970s and focuses on public and private institutions. Citizens are asked how much confidence they have in: organized religion, the Supreme Court, Congress, organized labor, big business, public schools, newspapers, the military, etc. Almost at the very bottom are news organizations. The only institution in which the public consistently has less confidence in is Congress, which they recently attempted to burn down.The financial media is no exception, as Jeff Snider often makes clear in his writings. But just as Vallier expressed hope with Kofinas that trust can be rebuilt and just as Strauss and Howe conveyed confidence that institutional strength is cyclical and will return, so here, in Episode 42, does Snider note that the minority of financial press attempting to be bring truth to power is growing.----------WHY----------Part 01: Wall Street Journal columnist Andy Kessler recently spoke with Jeff Snider about central banks and monetary policy. He ended a recent column with, "The least the Fed can do is get out of the way. End QE now".Part 02: Real yields recently hit RECORD lows. Yes, inflation is rising but is that due to the real economy expanding?  Real yields say, "No!". Real yields say, 'The real economy is AWFUL!' So what is driving inflation expectations higher? Fuel. Oil prices are up - but the economy isn't.----------WHERE----------Vurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBOvercast: https://bit.ly/2YyDsLaPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPodchaser: https://bit.ly/3oFCrwNPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39XjrAlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3roy----------WHAT----------How the Fed Stifles Lending: https://on.wsj.com/3bBrqc7RealVision Caitlin Long Interviews Manmohan Singh: https://bit.ly/2XEx6JWInflation, Reflation, Or Something Else?: https://bit.ly/2Lu2PeyAlhambra Investments Blog: https://bit.ly/2VIC2wWRealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7----------WHO----------Jeff Snider, Head of Global Investment Research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski, anonymous. Artwork by David Parkins. Podcast intro/outro is "Autumn Haze" by West & Zander at Epidemic Sound.

Mary Toft had delivered a litter of rabbits - that was the news that reached the court of King George I in 1726. Obstetrician John Howard arrived at Toft's bedside in September where he was presented with several animal parts, ostensibly from the supernatural womb. In October, she delivered nine dead baby rabbits, prompting Howard to write a letter to England's greatest doctors and scientists, as well as the King's secretary. Nathaniel St. André, the King's Swiss surgeon-anatomist, was sent to investigate. Toft greeted his arrival in November by delivering her 15th dead rabbit in his presence. St. André bought the story and "took some of the rabbit specimens back to London to show the King."Despite a chorus of doubt from other physicians and indisputable physical evidence from dissection of the rabbits, both Howard and St. André continued to support Toft's story. It seems Howard, taken in by the scam at first, was doubling-down as the stakes were raised hoping his bluff would be saved by a real miracle. St. André on the other hand seems to have made his stand on, "'maternal impression', an idea popular at the time. The theory proposed that an emotional stimulus experienced by a pregnant woman" - Toft had dreamt of rabbits - "could influence the development of the foetus."Howard and St. André damaged the reputation of physicians. But there have been worse, Dr. Pepper for example - disgusting. Plenty of good docs of course, and not necessarily physicians: Dr. Manhattan, the smurfy-blue god; Dr. Disrespect, the gaming personality; "The Dock of the Bay", by Otis Redding. So, where on the spectrum lies copper with its doctorate of philosophy in economics?In part 2 of Episode 41, Jeff Snider weighs the calm supply-and-demand fundamentals, versus the Howard and St. André-like narrative that the good ship #Copper-Pop - fueled by Fed #QE-finity inflation - has achieved escape velocity, entered the #Tesla-osphere, and is on its way to the #Bitcoin-star!  But first, the late-1990s Japanese government bond rout and its lessons for today.----------WHY----------Part 01: The benchmark US Treasury 10-year bond has seen its yield BLAST through 1.00% in the young year, from 0.91% on January 4 to 1.11% on January 8. Will an inflationary conflagration transform Treasuries into smoking husks of charcoal? Jeff Snider tells us what a REAL bond rout looked like.Part 02: Is the nine-month copper price blastoff due to monetary reasons (central bank printing, government budget deficits) or fundamental reasons (supply and demand)? Jeff Snider explains the fundamental backdrop (along with speculative fever) but dismisses monetary motives.----------SPONSOR----------But first, this from Eurodollar Enterprises!  Friends, are you confused by the financial press?  Are the pretty people on Bloomberg speaking in paradox?  Are the esteemed pages of The Economist written in contradiction?  Then The New Eurodollar Enterprises Dictionary of Echo-Nomics is for you!  Yes, from AbeMoronics to ZIRP (Zero Interesting, Reasonable Policies) confidently leaf through your folio to define Yellenism, Powellution and Greenspam.  "Money", a noun, is defined as "a blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it."  What is a synonym for "Wealth"?  Impunity.  What is the compound word for making economics erotic?  "Bernanke-panky".  The New Eurodollar Enterprises Dictionary of Echo-Nomics!  New!  From Eurodollar Enterprises.----------WHERE----------Vurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBOvercast: https://bit.ly/2YyDsLaPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPodchaser: https://bit.ly/3oFCrwNPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39XjrAlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3roy----------WHAT----------They’ve Gone Too Far (or have they?): https://bit.ly/2LCqA3yEp. 32, Pt. 2 Milton Friedman's Plucking Model: https://youtu.be/66W9oU0iUswThe Doctor Is In?: https://alhambrapartners.com/2020/12/30/the-doctor-is-in/Alhambra Investments Blog: https://bit.ly/2VIC2wWRealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7----------WHO----------Jeff Snider, Head of Global Investment Research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski, says "fable" means "moral". Artwork by the Asimov of copper robots, David Parkins. Podcast intro/outro is "Occurrence" by Martin Gauffin at Epidemic Sound.

In the middle of the 17th century, Athanasius Kircher -- "one of Europe’s most successful scholars" -- published "Egyptian Oedipus", a magisterial three-volume folio on Egyptology that "presented Latin translations of hieroglyphic inscriptions". The three-tome folio of ornate illustrations and diagrams was the product of "more than two decades of toil"; it sourced Arabic, Aramaic, Coptic, Ethiopian, Greek, Latin, Oriental and Samaritan texts. Kircher had illustrated "mummies, sarcophagi, Canopic jars, sphinxes" as well as "almost every hieroglyphic inscription known to Europeans" and translated them "character by character, into Latin prose." It was wholly and "utterly mistaken".In the late 19th century, William F. Warren was "one of the outstanding figures" of education, noted his 1929 New York Times obituary. He was a charter member of both the New England Conservatory of Music and Wellesley College. He spent 45 years at Boston University, including three decades as president during which a number of progressive firsts occurred, such as America's very first female PhD. He authored eight books, including "Paradise Found" in which, drawing on his knowledge of "the great epic folklore of the Hindus, the Celts, the Chinese, the Persians", and footnoting in French, German and Greek, "he arrived at the inevitable conclusion: the Garden of Eden is at the North Pole."Are we, in the early 21st century, free of such erroneous scholarship? Was then a superstitious past and now a scientific present? If our scholarly leaders were presented with evidence, if they had inside information, if they were imbued with power to compel actors to share data would they goal-seek a result, like Kircher and Warren? In Part 1 of Episode 40 Jeff Snider reads through official Federal Reserve emails covering the final 90-some days of Lehman Brothers' existence. It turns out our scholars are human too.----------SPONSOR----------But first, this from Eurodollar Enterprises!  Friends, are you a central banker?  Have you been invited into the home of a member of the financial press to celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah or Ramadan or Pancha Ganapati or Kwanzaa or Saturnalia or Yalda or Koliada or Festivus but have nothing to wear?  Then the new line premium quality bathrobes from Eurodollar Enterprises is for you!  Yes, arrive adorned in 800-thread count, plush Egyptian cotton emanating entitlement and overconfidence with devil-may-care flair. Each robe comes with your initials hand-stitched on the sleeves, and for that added touch of superiority, the logo of a regulated institution and your prospective employer, will be emblazoned over the breast pocket. Premium quality bathrobes!  New!  From Eurodollar Enterprises.----------WHY----------Part 01: Ben Bernanke was informed that Lehman Bros. was believed finished, on June 13, 2008 - 94 days before the bankruptcy. JPMorgan, with its seat at the heart of the repurchase agreement market, was acting on this belief. Internal Fed emails suggest the Fed thought JPMorgan was nuts.Part 02: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan -- America's most important bank, "wouldn’t touch" America's Treasury securities with a "10-foot pole". But JP Morgan itself is likely buying the same Treasuries hand-over-fist! Why the disconnect? Politics? Malice? Or just bad economics?Part 03: Inflation. Social media denizens claim it’s bad, that it’s ugly and that I’m a jerk. Does a professional survey of American citizens confirm that claim? On the latter point certainly – but what about inflation acceleration? Americans say, 'Meh'.----------WHERE----------AlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3royVurbl: https://bit.ly/3rq4dPnApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBOvercast: https://bit.ly/2YyDsLaPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39Xjr----------WHAT----------Vaccine Euphoria and Inflation Hysteria Obscure Dollar Problem: https://bit.ly/37tfO8pInflation HyZ1teria #2: https://bit.ly/3r41Gu2(CNBC) Jamie Dimon says he wouldn’t touch Treasuries: https://cnb.cx/37t1mNMAct II: The Lie Unwinds: https://bit.ly/38g78l8----------WHO----------Jeff Snider, Head of Global Investment Research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski, cootie-free. Artwork by David Parkins. Podcast intro/outro is "Chasing Visions" by Vano at Epidemic Sound.

Your podcaster has long been impressed by cinema that presents what is outside the human sensory process; art that conceives and presents what we literally cannot perceive. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrik shows us what transcendence is, by sending Keir Dullea through an astral rainbowfall. Christopher Nolan's Interstellar presents Matthew McConaughey in a tesseract, the three-dimensional shadow of four-dimensional space. In Annihilation, Alex Garland samples evolution, by introducing a sentient, prismatic cancer that refracts and reflects the DNA of its surroundings, including that of Natalie Portman.The audience is placed in an environment that doesn't reconcile with daily life and leaves them holding on to reality - at least as they understand it - by their fingernails. The eurodollar system is like that. Consider this legal wordfall from the Financial Stability Board: "regulatory arbitrage in the presence of non-harmonised re-hypothecation regimes."  Or this two-dimensional shadow of extra-dimensional money by Jeff Snider: "Nobody buys securities; they borrow and claim to 'own' [them]... [then] the client will agree to allow the dealer to re-pledge... the very security the client is claiming to own...  [T]he already re-pledged security... can be re-pledged again... In many if not most cases, there needn’t be the original client [desire] for this chain of re-pledging."If you want to know what it's like to travel through a wormhole for 18 hours in a hundredth of a second like Jodie Foster did in Robert Zemeckis' Contact then part one of Episode 39 is for you. Parts two and three aren't the worst things in the world either. Well, this world at least...----------SPONSOR----------But first, this from Eurodollar Enterprises!  Friends, are you a central banker?  Do you celebrate monetary accomplishments before they occur?  Do you struggle in credibly promising to be irrational?  Then the new Clench 5000 from Eurodollar Enterprises is for you!  Yes, simply place this refashioned, stainless-steel mousetrap in your trousers or pencil skirt for your next press conference.  Nary a hair will move on your head nor an eyebrow raise in confidence.  Nary a smile will cross your face before the policy transmits successfully through the economy.  Rest easy that your days of premature celebration are over with the knowledge that the Clench 5000 is hair-trigger sensitive.  The Clench 5000!  New!  From Eurodollar Enterprises.----------WHY----------Part 01: To understand the 2008 crisis one must understand Lehman Brothers. But NOT Lehman Brothers, Inc. - the American subsidiary. No, the REAL STORY was Lehman Brothers International (Europe), the United Kingdom subsidiary. Part 02: Inflation Hysteria II is the latest blockbuster advertised in the financial media. Is the sequel better, or worse than the original (2017-18)? Let's ask the critics: TIPS, interest rate swaps, the yield curve and oil prices.Part 03: In the end, these polar opposites in consumer credit are saying something important about the state of the economy. The same thing. Jobs. ----------WHERE----------AlhambraTube: https://bit.ly/2Xp3royApple: https://apple.co/3czMcWNDeezer: https://bit.ly/3ndoVPEiHeart: https://ihr.fm/31jq7cITuneIn: http://tun.in/pjT2ZCastro: https://bit.ly/30DMYzaGoogle: https://bit.ly/3e2Z48MSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3arP8mYPandora: https://pdora.co/2GQL3QgBreaker: https://bit.ly/2CpHAFOCastbox: https://bit.ly/3fJR5xQPodbean: https://bit.ly/2QpaDghStitcher: https://bit.ly/2C1M1GBOvercast: https://bit.ly/2YyDsLaPlayerFM: https://bit.ly/3piLtjVPocketCast: https://pca.st/encarkdtSoundCloud: https://bit.ly/3l0yFfKListenNotes: https://bit.ly/38xY7pbAmazonMusic: https://amzn.to/2UpEk2PPodcastAddict: https://bit.ly/2V39Xjr----------WHAT----------A Nonsensical Jumble of Misused Words Requires Discussion: https://bit.ly/3oPaJ0d(I. Schnabel Speech) Shifting tides in euro area money markets: https://bit.ly/3oLBz9wInflation Hysteria #2 (TIPS, Swaps): https://bit.ly/3gE6SjHInflation Hysteria #2 (Nominal UST): https://bit.ly/37TV492Inflation Hysteria #2 (WTI): https://bit.ly/2W7GvcfPolar Opposite Sides of Consumer Credit End Up in the Same Place - Jobs: https://bit.ly/37RVlJuAlhambra Investments Blog: https://bit.ly/2VIC2wWRealClear Markets Essays: https://bit.ly/38tL5a7----------WHO----------Jeff Snider, Head of Global Investment Research for Alhambra Investments with Emil Kalinowski, quantum mechanic. Artwork by David Parkins. Podcast intro/outro is "Otherworld" by Lama House at Epidemic Sound.