We seem to be nearing the end of the current debt supercycle where the marginal return on debt across society (individual, corporate and government) is no longer enough to produce growth, and so some form of deleveraging of the debt has to occur. This can be in the form of inflation or deflation, but either…Read More
The recent acceleration in technological change has brought a lot of talk of universal basic income (UBI) as the future for developed economies. While there are a lot of formal arguments that could be made against this, I thought it better to present a vision for a better world, if robotics and AI really are…Read More
Apologise for the break for June and July, we were in the process of moving and markets were relatively mixed over the summer months. A reminder that the two distinctive features of the 1332 Capital newsletter are that views are communicated over different time periods (immediate, cyclical and secular) as well as tracked between newsletter…Read More
Conventional economic theory states that during a recession interest rates should be lowered to spur lending. In practice, there is an argument to be made that this actually perpetuates the recession and leads to asset bubbles, debt supercycles and an increase in wealth inequality. 1. Clear bad debts faster giving room for the economy to…Read More
Inflation can mean very different things depending on what monetary system and part of the business cycle an economy is currently in.
Welcome to our inaugural monthly market newsletter. The newsletter will summarise our current analysis on the economy and markets from different macro time periods; immediate term, cyclical and secular. Immediate term reports what is happening in the present and recent history, the last trading day, week, and month. Cyclical tracks on a quarterly basis where…Read More
The past year has certainly seen more financial institutions adopt Bitcoin as a reserve asset, either for themselves or for their clients. Several news outlets have reported that BNY Mellon will hold, transfer, and issue Bitcoin on behalf of its clients. The use of the word issue raises the question as to whether they will…Read More
While the political left may have been the most critical voice of the wealth inequality, ironically it may have been a combination of the government and Federal reserve under a Democratic presidency that oversaw the creation of the so-called “1%”. Quantitative Easing inflates financial asset prices while causing stagnation and growing debt levels in the…Read More
In a recent talk, Portfolio Manager Steven Van Metre points out that contrary to public opinion, QE doesn’t “flood the system with liquidity”, but actually withdrawals liquidity from the Petro-Euro Dollar system. The irony of this is, that the Federal Reserve themselves published an article in 2014 confirming this to be the case:
It is maybe a sign of the times that Microstrategy is doing the same thing that retail investors do, leveraging up debt to speculate on an investment: We should learn the lessons of history that while beta might increase your gains as well as losses, leverage can loose you more than all your capital, as…Read More