Articles tagged: dollar

Jack Mallers on Europe: Where the Case Breaks (Part 3 of 3)

The final part of our examination of Jack Mallers and Europe is where the case meets its limits. We name the three omissions inside his mechanism — an unused central bank backstop, France's excessive deficit procedure, and a central bank that has itself been tightening — and we test his timing against the central bank's own data, where the August calm sits in the middle of a range that held for forty-four months and the fracture arrives in October alongside a budget and a collapsed government. We correct the figure that cuts broadest, give him the yen, the direction and the dating, name the claim that cannot fail, and leave eight dated markers by which the argument settles itself in public.

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Jack Mallers on Europe: The Record So Far (Part 2 of 3)

Part two of three turns the earlier verdict on Jack Mallers' debt-and-dollar thesis into a comparison. Where a working operator reading real-time markets and a series triangulating documents reach the same conclusion by independent routes, both readings get stronger — and on the roll, the interest bill, the fading foreign buyer and the direction of the debasement trade, they do. Then the record beside his older claims: yields, the mortgage rate, the deficit level and the size of the debt aged well; the eight point three trillion refinancing figure, the Asian surplus flow and the demographic share never confirmed; and the claim that no country survives debt above one hundred and thirty per cent of output is contradicted by Japan and Singapore.

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Jack Mallers on Europe: The Case Examined (Part 1 of 3)

Jack Mallers, the founder of Strike, hosts a show arguing that the euro system breaks before the American one. This first pass states his case at full strength: a central bank that hiked into forty trillion dollars of debt, a refinancing bill that grows on its own arithmetic, an intervention that sold euros rather than dollars, and a France he calls the first crack. His numbers largely hold, and two pieces of evidence, the euro's fall of nearly five per cent against the yen and Japanese holdings of French bonds, are real. His motive for it all remains, in his own words, speculation.

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Princes of the Dollar: Why QE Is Over, Tested Against Our Own Thesis

A piece that ran on The Mesh Point, then on Bombthrower, then on ZeroHedge under the house byline Tyler Durden argues that quantitative easing is over and that the state must now direct credit rather than let the bond market allocate it. This examination tests it against our own published debasement thesis and is candid where the argument cuts against us: directed credit is the one form of money creation that could plausibly raise output enough to meet an existing debt stock, and if it works, our debasement arithmetic loses its middle term. What it cannot do is tell the reader how to know: its headline arrives with no measure, no date and no mechanism, and its theory of credit sits awkwardly beside a claim about the central bank's balance sheet. The verdict, the three tensions, and the markers that would confirm the article or falsify us.

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Joel Litman on Debt, the Dollar and Gold, Compared With Our Own Reading

Joel Litman, chief investment strategist at Altimetry and president and chief executive of Valens Research, told Miles Franklin Media that the data says no to a coming crash and a dying dollar — corporate credit is the canary, and it is not singing. This examination states his system at full strength, including the instrument on which he genuinely improves this series: the corporate swap market as a live leading indicator, and a supply explanation for a heavy long end. Then it holds the claim against our own published numbers and finds the load-bearing step failing. The average borrower is priced as though nothing can go wrong, at two hundred and seventy-six basis points; the weakest is priced as though something already has, at one thousand and eighty-five. The average is calm and the tail is not, and the argument is settled on dated markers either way.

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