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The Bill From 1982
Energy shocks transmit in weeks. Industrial capacity rebuilds in decades. The difference is the story.
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Return to Baseline
The resting rate of inflation has reset higher, and you can see it component by component in the basket. The near-term disinflation is real anyway — and…
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Goldberg’s Moment?
Bari Weiss is treating the mind virus Bernard Goldberg got exiled for naming. But the cure might be the wrong medicine.
Jun 24
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The Floor Is Right. The Obvious Trade Is Wrong.
A reader pushed back on last week’s inflation call. He was correct about the instrument — and in being correct, he confirmed the thesis.
Jun 21
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Two Hands on the Same Lever
A respected critique of “activist” Treasury issuance turns out to be one half of a larger story — and the other half is who’s left to buy the debt.
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The High Floor
Why the disinflation everyone is counting on was a borrowed glut — and how to trade the gap.
Jun 18
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Liberation Day
The afternoon a show of sovereign strength revealed the limit of sovereign strength.
Jun 11
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The Clearing Price
Balance-sheet utilization is the danger gauge of a financialized republic.
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The Gauges
History gives us patterns. Accounting gives us constraints. Neither gives us escape.
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The Second Reactor
France proved nuclear works. Then it forgot how to build a reactor. America never learned.
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Which Clock Breaks First
Two endurance contests, one war, and the inflation variable that decides the end state
May 28
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Long Live the King
The retirement schedule for coal was built for a system that no longer exists.
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