The administration is telling you they want lower yields and will get them, yet people still want to fight it. Best of luck if you can’t understand the direction of policy.
All this hullabaloo over Bessent's buyback plans, and the source of funds to enact them, is moot...all that matters is the signal...Treasury are attentive to market developments, don't like what they see, and will adopt an activist approach to engineer their preferred outcome...
The last time gold broke its correlation with real yields was in late '23, & it kicked off a major bull run. It's starting to break that relationship again...
This could prove 100% accurate if he swaps ALL the Federal debt for T-Bills, then uses those T-Bills to back 0% yielding stablecoins, then cuts the rate on those T-Bills to 0.60% (b/c the banks don't deserve 3.5% on stablecoins).
You're gonna want to own more gold & BTC though.
Semis & AI “bottlenecks” are obviously where a lot of the excitement is right now, but it’s clear that over time, some of the biggest winners from AI will be medicine, whether it be through the impact AI has on drug discovery, diagnostics, treatment, or overall quality of care.
It's been entertaining watching the daily swings in single names & how emotional people become on both the upswings and downswings, with their opinion of the stock seemingly changing based on whichever direction it's moving that day; but it's going to be even more entertaining watching individuals and markets react to weekly Yipit data on Anthropic
The more the CNY collapses v. gold (USDCNY*gold, below), the LOWER Chinese govt bond yields fall.
At some point, western policymakers will figure out why the same would also hold true for their bonds.
You'll want to own gold before western policymakers finally figure this out.