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CNY Deval and Equity Valuation Theories

First, the arguments for a China deval are reasonable but not awesomely compelling to me. Second, as time goes by, the arguments for a relationship between US GDP and US stock prices become even less compelling.

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An Acute Shortage of Safe Assets

In a world of inflation fear and high bond market volatility, there are not many good safe havens to hedge a rapid collapse in equities.

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Oops, I Did It Again

In an MMT world where the Fed has truncated the policy distribution by promising no more rate hikes, inflation rebounds. There is zero possibility of tax hikes to deal with inflation so the primary cure for this inflationary reacceleration, if it gets worse, needs to be rate hikes.

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