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In the past few years the correlation between inflation and changes in currency levels has shifted many times from positive to negative. Unless there’s the expectation that Brazil [...]

This should have been posted weeks ago, but I’ll leave a quick note here while I find time to write something more structured. My macro optimism with Brazil has dwindled since 4Q19 and, [...]

When I see the chart below, some of what comes to mind is: – Pension funds’ promises wildly inadequate – Retirees are royally screwed, but don’t think about it on a daily [...]

Watch for banking rules that determine that banks MUST lend above a certain – above current! – level. In late 80s Japan the BOJ/MoF team had financial institutions shove credit out in [...]

So inflation is -5% and 10y USTs trade at -3.50% yield. That means it is a good deal to buy USTs for a real yield of +1.5%. A country with debt only in its own currency could just print its own [...]

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US Budget Deficit chart updated below. From an outside-recessions increase of ~0.6%/GDP per year to +9% increase due to COVID19 programs. A chart with global deficits could be useful now too. The [...]

Today decent NFP + Household Survey US employment numbers were released together with not-so-bad Unemployment Claims #s. Thoughts: 1/ CARES Act only works in full for those who hired workers [...]

BRL cheap or expensive? Below a little histogram of distribution of 2y nominal rates vs YoY realized headline CPI in Brazil x US. It is basically at an all time low. It’s has never been [...]

Below is a chart of: 1/ Brazil CPI Headline + CPI Services 2/ USDBRL 3/ Unemployment Rate (%) And then there is chart of: 1/ CPI Headline + longer-dated swap rates 2/ Longer-dated swap rates x [...]