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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 months
Unintentional endorsement of running a budget deficit
@Geiger_Capital
Geiger Capital
3 months
When people say that the economy is super strong, please understand… We are running a HISTORIC deficit. 6.2% of GDP. Never seen before outside of WW2, the GFC or Covid. If we weren’t running this deficit and balanced the budget, or even got close, GDP would collapse.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
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Since Q4 2022, corporate profits have risen every quarter. At some point this will be understood as a case of rate hikes supporting the private sector, not the private sector overcoming rate hikes.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
1 month
2020-24 was a validation of MMT's claims: - The government had no issues spending trillions of dollars in a month - That spending was able to get inflation up to target (unlike the 2010s) - That spending helped Real GDP print higher than the IMF's 5yr forecast from 2019 for the
@MarcGoldwein
Marc Goldwein
1 month
People who believe in the infinite money tree fascinate me. If I had such a heterodox and counterintuitive view of the world and just witnessed a major case study counter to my view, I might be a bit less condescending to those with a more mainstream view.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Those million simulations also all forecasted a recession in 2023.
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@business
Bloomberg
2 months
The US debt outlook is fragile. Bloomberg Economics ran a million forecast simulations. Results for 88% of them show borrowing on an unsustainable path
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
4 months
Deficits never need to be "plugged". The spending itself "plugs" the deficit.
@Mayhem4Markets
Markets & Mayhem
4 months
Should be a blast
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
18 days
Bob is just making stuff up. Inflation falls when money creation falls. Money creation falls when gov spending or bank lending falls. The Fed has little ability to constrain these flows (and often unintentionally accelerates them). And the bond market is an indicator, not a
@BobEUnlimited
Bob Elliott
19 days
If the Fed won't do what is necessary to bring inflation back to target, the bond market will just do it on its own.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Previewing a tool I built for visualizing balance sheet operations. Should have utility in working through questions like this. @JackFarley96 @maggielake
@crossbordercap
CrossBorder Capital
2 months
@BickerinBrattle need to ask how the fiscal spend is being funded? Latest data reveal growing monetisation... I think we can agree that fiscal policy is directing flows towards real economy. No surprise there
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
15 days
Here is the problem with "QT destroys money, deficit spending adds money, so they're offsetting". One person’s debt is another’s asset. In deficit spending, new assets are created for the private sector. In QT, old assets (cash) are replaced with new assets (Treasuries). It’s
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@dlacalle_IA
Daniel Lacalle
15 days
@rpgoyal_ Deficit spending -new money- offsets the reduction in the quantity of money that the Fed does through QT. Money is not an asset or a liability. All fiat money is debt.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Bloomberg asking this question is an existential threat for the Fed. Without a supportive media apparatus, there is no Fed
@lisaabramowicz1
Lisa Abramowicz
3 months
What if Fed policy didn’t matter that much to markets? It seems like that’s where we are at the moment. Instead, traders are focused on fiscal stimulus still pumping into the economy and the potential deficit issues that will likely emerge down the line.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
5 months
Inflation was always transitory UNTIL the Fed started hiking. There's never been a self-reinforcing/spiraling inflation in history that wasn't also accompanied by rising rates. Rates are just a price. Raise that price, and you raise the income of every seller
@wbmosler
Warren B. Mosler
5 months
If the Fed had left the fed funds rate at 0, the COVID thing would have been largely transitory. But it didn't and now CPI growth will gravitate towards the current fed funds rate that's supporting deficit spending/agg demand/employment/costs/forward prices/etc.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Had a great time discussing monetary and balance sheet operations with Nik Bhatia ( @timevalueofbtc ) at The Bitcoin Layer. Check it out!
@TheBitcoinLayer
The Bitcoin Layer
2 months
🚨NEW VIDEO🚨 How The US Treasury Creates Money Monetary researcher Ritik Goyal ( @rpgoyal_ ) gives a masterclass on monetary mechanics, including how the Treasury creates money when it spends instead of borrows.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 months
Not just spurious, there is no correlation between stocks and bank reserves. Liquidity isn't a useful concept @BickerinBrattle
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@InvictusMacro
Mike Singleton, CFA
3 months
Correlation between bank reserves and stock prices has been *very high* for several years now... What do we think? Spurious correlation? Or a reflection of important policy/liquidity dynamics?
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
20 days
High bond yields don't cause recessions, it's recessions that cause bond yields to stop being high.
@BobEUnlimited
Bob Elliott
20 days
The biggest challenge for asset holders right now is bond yields are high and rising enough to create a drag on asset prices but not yet high enough to create the economic slowdown required for the Fed to ease.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
1 month
@StephanieKelton
Stephanie Kelton
1 month
Highly recommend this (high-level) conversation on where ⁦ @rpgoyal_ ⁩ thinks markets and the economy are headed and why. ⁦
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 months
Ah yes QE, the “free” money that you only get if you give up an asset of equivalent worth first
@BlacklionCTA
Brent aka Blacklion
3 months
Bloomberg US Financial Conditions trending quickly toward the July 2021 summer of free money (ZIRP, QE, Stimmie, etc.) high.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 months
2020-21: Massive QE, ZIRP, and massive fiscal, stocks/crypto break to new ATHs 2023-24: QT, 5IRP, and massive fiscal, stocks/crypto break to new ATHs (or close) Process of elimination
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 days
A very Howell-ian treatment of liquidity. Which is to say, wrong imo. Thread.
@prometheusmacro
Prometheus Research
6 days
On Liquidity Dynamics🧵 1. Liquidity is the flow of cash-like assets that potentiate spending in the real and financial economy. Liquidity potentiates returns across assets, while the nominal growth environment determines the distribution of returns within assets.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
There’s no evidence that this is true. Rates reflect conditions, they don’t cause conditions.
@BobEUnlimited
Bob Elliott
2 months
Much higher long-end rates are pretty much the only thing that has a chance to slow down the income driven economic momentum in the US.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
7 days
R2K being -16% from its 2021 high is the bull case, not the bear case. Most US companies are still deeply undervalued relative to current corp profitability and nominal growth. The mid-2000s style boom in cyclical risk (banks, commods, industrials) is still ahead of us.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Fiscal deficits without QE is just as powerful as with, perhaps even more. QE isn’t creating new purchasing power like fjscal is. Equites and crypto at ATHs amidst anti-QE…
@MacroAlf
Alf
2 months
Fiscal Deficits + QE is one of the most powerful monetary combinations in the world. You are going to see it more often over the next decade. Here is how it impacts markets and the economy: 1/
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
15 days
So many unrelated concepts being conflated here. Have to think of money as dual-sided asset and liability. Deficit spending does not "offset" anything the Fed does. QT only converts money from one form to another; deficit spending creates new money. Categorically different.
@dlacalle_IA
Daniel Lacalle
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Persistent inflation is not a coincidence. The money supply (M2) has bounced above March 2023 levels, while deficit spending offsets any Fed balance sheet reduction. Table via Federal Reserve
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 months
ZIRP fueling an “everything bubble” is one of the biggest myths in macro
@McClellanOsc
Tom McClellan
3 months
One can follow the Taylor Rule, which is mathematically complex with several inputs. Or one can just listen to the 2-year T-Note yield, which knows better than the Fed's 400 PhDs do about what the FOMC is going to do.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
26 days
The privately held supply of Treasury debt.
@Dcpcooks
DCP
26 days
Question for the masses What is the best measure of liquidity in the markets?
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
1 month
To steal from @wbmosler , the CB policy error discussion is like worrying that the kid in the back seat is going to crash the car
@crossbordercap
CrossBorder Capital
1 month
Michael Howell: Central Banks Are About To Make A Major Error
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
4 months
Except rate cuts are anti-labor
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@FedGuy12
Joseph Wang
4 months
@BobEUnlimited You can easily get cuts without any political motivation. Fed officials have already spent time explaining they view the world through real rates, so cuts can come from slowing inflation. It's also easy to see that new Fed leadership tends to be more pro labor.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 months
Inflation and rates are one and the same. Set rates somewhere, and that's where inflation will eventually go. Pulling on each other like a pair of black holes.
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@wbmosler
Warren B. Mosler
6 months
@Econ_Parker What do you think his counterfactual is? If they had left rates at 0 (like Japan) where do their models say GDP/unemployment/inflation would be today? ;)
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 months
For a guy with a phd in economics you’d think he’d understand calling things cults and conspiracies is Step 1 in evading the scientific method. MMT isn’t even prescriptive it’s descriptive
@stevehouf
Steve Hou (“LEASE MORE”)
6 months
Oh another nice byproduct of the pandemic inflation episode: MMT as a radical cultish (at one point potentially virulent) political ideology has been pretty thoroughly debunked and rejected. 😊
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
19 days
Treasuries are more money-like than reserves.
@mark_dow
Dow
19 days
Remember, QE adds liquidity to the system and QT also adds liquidity to the system. Thank you for coming to my Fed talk.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
4 months
@TaviCosta What is this ethical framework that makes you avoid Chinese companies but be okay with any other country's equity market?
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Ritik Goyal
4 months
After 550bps of “tightening”…
@StockMKTNewz
Evan
4 months
The Atlanta Fed's 🇺🇸 Q1 GDPNow forecast is now at +4.2% up from +3%
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
16 days
This is like asking how NGDP growth can keep expanding when the supply of physical paper cash is falling. Everyone knows it's not literal paper money that matters, it's total purchasing power, and converting paper money to a bank deposit doesn't change that. But Bob has to fall
@BobEUnlimited
Bob Elliott
20 days
How can nominal growth keep expanding when major DW central banks keep contracting the money supply? The answer is simple - rising velocity facilitated by strong nominal income growth.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
4 days
The notion that the "ultra-easy monpol" of the 2010s (ZIRP, QE) is now finally spilling over into higher inflation is peak Fed-apologism. Much more likely is that the Fed was mostly irrelevant then, is mostly irrelevant now, and what's changed is that the private sector holds
@SemperVigilant1
Semper Vigilantes
4 days
This is why I say the old theory that 12-18 month lag on monetary policy effects is no more. 15 years of Zirp and Balance Sheet Expansion. They locked it up though by paying out interest on excess reserves, and now on just reserves. The effects of the earliest QE measures are
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 years
@CNN Just a few more years and they'll all realize Kamala is part of the same pro-corporate establishment as all the old white dudes :)
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
5 days
The weird thing about "we're repeating the 1970s stagflation" is that the 1970s actually had some of the best real GDP growth of any decade in recent history.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
MMT is a lot like monetarism, except “base money” is the supply of government debt, not the supply of bank reserves.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 months
Moved to Tuesday. Talking Fed and the business cycle with @BickerinBrattle
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
4 months
Everybody realized rate hikes are inflationary
@Dr_Gingerballs
Dr_Gingerballs
4 months
Anyone want to take a stab at explaining why Fed Funds Futures show an increase in probability for a March cut today after a hot CPI print?
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
1 month
Fiscal spending on interest payments is what QE wishes it was
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
@JackFarley96 Bond yields can also be quoted on a discount basis, which uses the bonds face value as denominator to calculate interest rates, whereas the investment basis used the current bond price. FRED also has discount basis quotes for some of the Treasury yields
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 years
@ajlidbeck @FoxNews @newsmax Lol newsmax literally had to provide a 3 minute disclaimer video that all the claims they made were false in order to avoid getting sued. You're running out of places to get your propaganda :(
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
1 month
Quarterly Refunding Astrology
@steve_donze
Steve Donzé
1 month
Evaluate QRAs, make sure @dampedspring concurs, and trade accordingly
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 days
That’s why the 2010s had no inflation despite the massive expansion in liquidity. Every attempt at measuring any sort of “total assets” shows the same picture: steady growth and then a dramatic, permanent, plateau.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Great discussion of business cycle dynamics by the folks at @AppliedMMT It's the combination of fiscal and bank money growth that dictates the cycle, and the Fed's rate policy only matters insofar as it affects those things
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Ritik Goyal
5 months
Big Fiscal + Rate Cuts is how you keep inflation transitory while spending. As long as the fiscal itself isn’t continuous, the funds just shift the price level higher. Big Fiscal + High Rates is how you entrench inflation; it means the money that’s spent is paying its own money.
@SteveMiran
Stephen Miran
5 months
The problem with letting the transitorist victory-lappers off the hook is that they are already calling for renewed Big Fiscal and sharp Fed cuts (when output is not significantly below potential) and seem to want to entrench significantly higher long-term inflation
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
5 months
Thanks for having me on! Talking Fed, interest rates, the economy, and why everything isn’t as it seems
@AppliedMMT
AppliedMMT
5 months
🎙 NEW EPISODE with special guest @rpgoyal_ is live! 🦉 The value of the MMT framework 🏦 Ritik's "The Fed Does Not Exist" 💸Monetary policy & inflation 📈Our outlook going forward 🎧Listen here:
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
8 days
In other words, the demand for safe US assets exploded (via China), and at the same time, the supply of those safe assets fell. The only solution was for private safe assets to make up that shortfall. The lesson is to never let true safe assets ever become too scarce.
@wabuffo
Bill
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Disagree. The fiscal surpluses of 1998-2001 + the entry of China into the WTO in 2001 that exploded the US trade deficit. Both factors forced US domestic households into debt to maintain consumption. Caused an inevitable debt crisis.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
7 months
@stevehouf @wabuffo In aggregate, the dollars that the Tsy spent into the private sector bought the new Treasuries
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Ritik Goyal
20 days
Yellen has no control over the size of the deficit. Need to be able to distinguish between Powell Liquidity, Yellen Liquidity, and Biden Liquidity to accurately describe the economy.
@SteveMiran
Stephen Miran
20 days
*YELLEN: CONCERNED ABOUT 'WHERE WE'RE GOING' WITH US DEFICIT You're the one driving! Pull the damn car over.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Wrong monetary base. QE’s increase in supply of reserves can’t stop a recession because a recession is a private sector BS contraction and QE isn’t a private sector BS expansion
@TaviCosta
Otavio (Tavi) Costa
2 months
If the monetary base is increasing despite one of the most restrictive monetary policies in history, what should one expect in a recession? We probably all know the answer for that. It’s imperative to own hard assets in my view.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
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@timpierotti1 Disagree. High interest rates are associated with high velocity and high private credit creation. Empirically that's the case, and logically, existing money must change hands faster when rates are high in order to satisfy larger obligations (velocity) and the incentive and
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Government spending crowds in private activity.
@Claudia_Sahm
Claudia Sahm
2 months
Truly remarkable, especially that it's continuing. h/t @SamRo , who connects it with higher productivity.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 years
Duke is an awfully coached basketball team. 75% of their points come from offensive boards/transition or big mistakes by the other team which is why every game still feels like a toss-up. Almost no offensive design, screens, pnr, whatsoever.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
5 months
Great pod. “The economy has 3 months to prove to the fed it deserves higher rates.” It’s like having to prove you’re not high-risk to be able to buy insurance, even though it’s those who are high risk who need it. Completely backwards, but it’s the world we live in
@AppliedMMT
AppliedMMT
5 months
🎙 NEW EPISODE is live! Our 2023 wrap-up covers: ✅ What we got right ❌ What we got wrong 🏦 Where does the Fed go from here? 🔮 Predictions for 2024 🎧Listen here:
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Ritik Goyal
6 months
Higher for shorter is much more deflationary than higher for longer. With higher for longer, you give the system time to adapt to the new rate paradigm and iron out any balance sheet frictions. Once everyone is earning more on their assets and paying more on their liabilities,
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
5 months
Risks to our 2024 outlook piece coming soon. Spoiler: the biggest risk is the Fed tries to “preemptively” cut to get a soft landing, which sows the seeds of a hard landing. Can’t have a recession without rate cuts…
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Ritik Goyal
2 months
No it wasn't
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Ritik Goyal
5 months
Re: all the talk of "easing financial conditions". The real concern with yields falling enough is not a reignition of inflation, it's recession. I.e. why every time the Fed "pivoted" we got a recession. Discussed this with @AppliedMMT around 30-45:00
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Ritik Goyal
3 months
Rate hikes + big fiscal = economic outperformance
@GregDaco
Gregory Daco
3 months
🇺🇸The US #economy is in a league of its own
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Ritik Goyal
2 months
After 550bps of rate hikes, Solana #SOL is up from $176 to $206 a coin.
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Ritik Goyal
1 month
Had a great discussion with Daniel on the interplay of business cycles and monetary/fiscal policy!
@dbaeza13
Daniel Baeza
1 month
Thought provoking convo with @rpgoyal_ , we discussed: 1. Fed lags (not leads) business cycle 2. High rates = high inflation and growth, all good 3. Risk free yield curve isn't inverted 4. ZIRP shrinks bank credit creation 5. QE portfolio rebalance = myth
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Ritik Goyal
3 months
Fiscal spending is only a redistribution through inflation. Making money less scarce makes assets less scarce which hurts those with assets. But no one directly gets their money taken when the government spends.
@FedGuy12
Joseph Wang
3 months
Fiscal spending redistributes income from those who spend less to those who spend more. The effect may be particularly strong when spending is financed by debt than taxes. This suggests continued strong growth in nominal GDP and is supportive of credit.
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Ritik Goyal
5 months
After 550bps of rate hikes, the levered and rate sensitive homebuilders are at an all time high.
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Ritik Goyal
4 months
Rising prices pulls consumption forward to avoid future higher prices. Rising rates pulls borrowing forward to avoid future higher rates?
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Ritik Goyal
3 months
Bagehot would've hated QE. As FOMC member Fisher said in 2011: Most of these variations that have been suggested are very un-Bagehot-like. And what I mean by that is, twisting entails purchasing assets that investors are fleeing toward, not assets that they are fleeing from.
@BickerinBrattle
George Robertson
3 months
should not confuse a Bagehot emergency response from the central bank - lend freely against sound collateral - with QE. They are not the same and QE is in reality a move to raise reserves, to fund an increase of reserves, the Bagehot action doesnt change reserves.
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Ritik Goyal
3 years
Nothing ruins your confidence like trying to sign an online document with your mouse
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Ritik Goyal
6 days
Focusing on cash-like assets as drivers of nominal growth or asset returns is a fallacy of composition. It’s not the supply of cash-like assets, but the total supply of all assets, that determines outcomes. Net worth drives decisions, not how much of that net worth is held in
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Ritik Goyal
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Markets would be so much more efficient if they prioritized the amount of assets in existence, not whether assets exist in the form of a reserve or a Treasury security. Until then the Fed's placebo tactics will continue to play a big role.
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@BobEUnlimited
Bob Elliott
19 days
The Fed acknowledges the "lack of further progress toward the Committee's 2 percent inflation objective" and also slows the pace of treasury QT by more than half. Easing policy at the same time inflation is a greater concern is at best inconsistent and at worst imprudent.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 months
Rate cuts create a shortage of safe assets. A shortage of safe assets causes risk-taking to be less insured. Less insured risk-taking makes that risk-taking occur in a safer manner. Safer risk-taking is equivalent to less risk-taking. Less risk-taking means less growth.
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Ritik Goyal
7 months
@dampedspring @JeffSnider_AIP Jeff is making a structural argument about the system's ability to produce cyclicality, which he thinks has been kneecapped since 2008, with swap spreads and other prices indicative of that. In such a state there are no "sudden catastrophes" because to get such an event there has
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Ritik Goyal
3 months
Those dang rate hikes
@MikeZaccardi
Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT 🍖
3 months
Underlying inflation momentum is rising again. @soberlook
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Ritik Goyal
5 months
It's the stimulative effects of rate hikes in action*. One person's loss is someone else's gain. Doomers gonna doom
@RealEJAntoni
E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.
5 months
This isn't a meme stock, some third world country's currency, or the balance sheet of a failed regional bank - it's the losses at the Fed, and it just exceeded $130 billion:
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Ritik Goyal
3 months
He did not just associate the RRP drawdown with the price of bitcoin
@steve_donze
Steve Donzé
3 months
Yet another year of central bank-spurred market fireworks!
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Ritik Goyal
2 months
Since 2022, we’ve been living in the first case study of the Fed raising rates following a contraction instead of cutting them.
@fallacyalarm
Fallacy Alarm
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The recession you are still waiting for happened in 1H22.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Like any impressionist painting, meant to convey a feeling or emotion rather than the pursuit of realism
@crossbordercap
CrossBorder Capital
2 months
Impressionist 'Sunrise'?? Central Bank heatmap with red hues showing maximum tightness of #liquidity From our latest GLI data release
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Ritik Goyal
5 months
A Fed pivot has never once translated to a sustained equity bull market, because a Fed pivot has never once translated to stronger earnings. Economies usually survive hiking cycles; it's pauses and pivots they don't survive. Writing a piece on this soon @ The Monetary Frontier
@TimmerFidelity
Jurrien Timmer
5 months
Outlook for 2024: I expect a broadening bull market as the Fed pivots (at least initially) and the bond market finds a new range, while earnings advance and the economy survives the great hiking cycle of 2022-23. Two caveats: 1. The Fed might pivot prematurely, forcing it to
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
4 months
Each day that we don't get a recession, the "economy holding up despite rate hikes" case becomes worse compared to "because of rate hikes".
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Ritik Goyal
5 months
Phenomenal interview on the costs of low rates and the importance of the bank loan as the primary engine for economic growth
@JackFarley96
Jack Farley
5 months
Out now- @FedGuy12 & @csissoko on: - Fed Pivot - CLOs & Private Equity - The Rise of "Too Big to Fail" - ZIRP & misallocation of capital - Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) - Line b/w lending & money markets has been "obliterated" Merry Christmas and happy holidays
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
4 months
After 550 bps of hikes, long-duration assets Bitcoin and Ethereum are unchanged vs their Jan 2022 levels. Rate hikes are income.
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Ritik Goyal
1 month
Just have to bring back Fisher, and things become a bit clearer. High rates = high nominal growth Low rates = low nominal growth At turning points, both change direction together.
@cullenroche
Cullen Roche
1 month
Remember, higher inflation means higher rates for longer which means higher economic risk for longer which means higher risk of lower rates. See, investing is easy.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 days
In fact, more of “liquid assets” has been a reliable indicator that the supply of “total assets” is falling, not rising. Liquidity tends to rise in deflation, because liquidity is a placebo tactic designed by CBs to obfuscate the real problem, a shortage of total assets.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
15 days
@dlacalle_IA All deficit spending is new money. Full stop. The government prints money, and it prints Treasuries.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 months
Inflation was always transitory; a one-shot injection of fiscal cannot produce spiraling prices. Then the Fed started hiking…
@deerpointmacro
Deer Point Macro
6 months
Disinflation has been rapid throughout the past year as supply chain bottlenecks have largely faded. Demand inflation has started to come down on the back of a falling output gap (demand following relative to domestic output). With current trend we could see core PCE below 3%
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 days
The narrow focus on liquidity is like weighing a car’s engine to try to understand the car’s weight. Sure, a heavier engine means the car could be heavier, but it doesn’t have to be. More of “liquid assets” doesn’t mean there are necessarily more assets in total.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Will have a piece on this on the monetary frontier soon. It’s my life mission to dispel of the Fed-brain and tech-bro-brain and ignorance towards the data that leads folks to think ZIRP is anything but disastrous for innovation
@stevehouf
Steve Hou (“LEASE MORE”)
2 months
There was no “grit, originality, and innovation” during the ZIRP era? That’s news to me. I think we’ve seen numerous amazing innovative start-ups over the past decade, each of which took tremendous grit, originality and innovation. I’ve never heard of start-ups being easy,
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Ritik Goyal
4 months
The RRP rundown moves reserves around while QE creates reserves
@GordonJohnson19
Gordon Johnson
5 months
But the RRP rundown isn’t QE, right… right @Stimpyz1 ? Ha. You literally have them confirming it here. The @federalreserve is reckless and wants to literally destroy the poor via inflation to pay for a fake economy where govt spending is EVEYTHING.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 months
@gctradingES @BickerinBrattle The flow of new bank and fiscal money into the economy. That's it. "Liquidity" just describes the nature of money, not the amount of money.
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Ritik Goyal
6 months
The Fed and money are in a perpetual game of cat and mouse. Tom and Jerry style
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Ritik Goyal
6 months
@dbaeza13 @crossbordercap Yep and crafty bank accounting to get around the watchful eye of regulation. In the first pic, a US bank circumvents reserve requirements by sending deposits to its London subsidiary and then borrowing them back, shifting its liability from deposits (part of M2) to "borrowings"
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
5 months
Today is an example of policy-market reflexivity. Market thinks one thing, policy confirms it and makes the market think more of that thing. If that feedback loop gains traction, next thing you know we'll be back in a low rate, low NGDP environment.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
4 months
Neither M2 nor velocity are particularly relevant to understanding the US economy.
@countdraghula
Count Draghula
4 months
M2 was only ever a proxy to measure private credit growth, a shortcut way to summarise the risk appetite of the private economy which a lack of is what ultimately defines recessionary periods. It isn't a very good measure, so they made up a term "velocity" to make up for it's
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 months
The Fed didn't come close to monetizing the debt. The debt was issued at the short end, the Fed bought the long end. If the Fed bought the short end, the Covid panic would've been 10x worse - the system needs bills, not reserves. (Why is why the Fed stopped buying bills in 2020)
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@ForwardGuidance
Forward Guidance
11 months
@LynAldenContact We're so glad you noticed that. Here is Robert Kaplan (former President of the Dallas Fed) saying that the Fed "monetized the debt" in March 2020 to fund the U.S. government's vast fiscal support: (1/2) @JackFarley96 's follow-up question in part 2/2
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
5 months
QE works when the Fed buys assets the market is running away from. When the Fed buys assets the market is running towards, you get the opposite effect -> QE of Treasuries becomes a tightening
@Stimpyz1
Stimpyz
5 months
@dbaeza13 @BartsQuandry @dampedspring @countdraghula @DiMartinoBooth QE worked because the Fed bought MBS. It was the only stimulus injection Wall Street couldn't absorb whole. Because you couldn't fail to the Fed, VERY low coupons got created that needed to be loaned up, so homeowners got rich FAST. Then rest is noise.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 months
@DzambhalaHODL @BickerinBrattle He’s doing a level to level comparison, which is basically useless. Have to look at the change in one thing versus the change in the other.
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Ritik Goyal
4 months
"It would have been better to get the recession, then use deficit spending to boost growth"... That's exactly what's happened since 2022.
@Derek19603617
DerekV
4 months
@EconguyRosie ~25% of jobs created last year were government. Deficit spending is delaying the inevitable, meanwhile the lower class has been crushed by inflation. it would have been better to get the recession, then use deficit spending to boost economic growth. Instead, they used
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
6 days
Whether an asset has 0 duration or some duration is insignificant vs. the fact that the net worth exists. If the Treasury decided to hand every American a 30-year Treasury bond certificate worth $1000, liquidity would be unchanged, but net worth would be radically different. And
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
3 months
The government spending funds the government spending.
@crossbordercap
CrossBorder Capital
3 months
Remember the government has already spent money... We are discussing how it is funded
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
2 months
Would hardly call RRP depletion “Fed counter-injections” and would really hardly attribute equity returns to either RRP depletion more a function of availability of T-bills, and equity returns more a function of creation of new A-L pairs, not composition of existing pairs
@steve_donze
Steve Donzé
2 months
Fed counter-injections (via RRP depletion) to keep equities afloat for the remainder of 1Q24 before reversing in 2Q24.
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@rpgoyal_
Ritik Goyal
1 month
A couple months ago, @BickerinBrattle and I put out some materials comparing our framework to the liquidity-based approach. Tldr: what matters is how many new asset-liability pairs are being produced every day, not how many of those pairs are cash assets. Links below
@JackFarley96
Jack Farley
1 month
What is the impact of "Central Bank Liquidity" on markets? Today I'm interviewing @crossbordercap & @BickerinBrattle , who have very different views on the subject Let me know if there's anything in particular you think I should ask them... 👇
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