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Have Your Cake and Eat it Too

Mar 30, 2023

I guess the fruits of the Federal Reserve's labor is really coming to fruition. Because of this, they had to succumb to a 25 basis point rate hike to at least keep up the appearance of not completely falling on their sword. Additionally, SVB got bought by First Citizens on a sweetheart deal from the FDIC and the lack of...

Bank of Mattress

Mar 23, 2023

I guess the main takeaway from this whole bank fallout out is that the Fed ended up only raising by 25 bps rather than the projected 50 bps by the bond market earlier this month. That and UBS and Credit Suisse are now the same company; which really was a long time coming one way or another. However, the overhanging...

Better you than me

Mar 16, 2023

I guess the cat got out of the bag and became the elephant in the room. As far as how that happened, Silicon Valley Bank had a balance sheet so ugly that the Motion Pictures Association would have to create a might need to create a new rating class for it. Like seriously, how can you have a portfolio duration that is...

Vicious Doom Loop

Mar 9, 2023

Welcome back everyone, hope you had a chance to recover from your accumulative hangover; and what a week to come back to. So far, we've had a Fed presser, a Beige Book release, and a JOLTS report. As expected, we received astoundingly hawkish tone from JPow and the markets reacted accordingly. Additionally, the...