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Among the difficulties of entering uncharted macroeconomic territory, where daily "transitory" changes cause wild volatility in all corners of the market, is documenting key themes as they emerge. One of the better analyses of the current market environment that we have read has come from Bloomberg Opinion writer John Authers. In a piece published on Friday, Authers lays out two key market themes heading into the end of Q2: The developing problem of inflation, especially as it relates to the cost of food, in emerging markets. How Elon Musk has, alongside of all of his devotees and disc...

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here. This entry was posted in Guest Post, Links on About Lambert Strether Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because t...

by Tyler Durden There was some good news for the ( transitorily hyper-)inflation-ravaged US economy today when copper, wheat and lumber futures all fell after days of surging - in the case of the latter, the first drop in 13 days... ... pushing the Bloomberg commodity index lower after six straight days of gains. Yet while today's boiling-off in commodities may have been a faint validation of the Fed's claim that this inflation is “transitory”, inflation pressures are unmistakably building, with Bloomberg's Vince Cignarella noting that the five-year/five-year inflation swap is above 2.5...

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