🔔 Return of The Memestonks...

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The inflation debate...

I dropped this article to premium subscribers earlier, giving an update to our expectations for inflation, growth and what's going to happen in yield-land.

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🤓 If you want some hard reading, then look no further than at one of the papers we checked out from the Fed.

Yes, this is the stuff that gets us going here at Macrodesiac.

In short, it describes how the Fed (and by extension, other central banks) signal to the market how to 'make up' for misses in inflation data from economic shocks.

It's important to read academic papers since they can provide much deeper data based interpretations of topics than you can just from a glance at them.

Give the below article a read on coming up with investing ideas - one of the takeaways is to be inquisitive and to look at academic papers for insight 👇

https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2019/04/08/how-i-generate-investment-ideas/

🔥 Hot or 🚫 Not

🔥 Kangaroo vs Gone Off Sushi: AUDJPY has had a stormer of a week so far, rising from a low of 82.93 to the current price of 83.81 after risk came back on the table yesterday.

Follow through: we are expecting tech to dust itself off and try again at an upside march as the 10 year yield comes off the highs at 1.6%-ish and retreats back to 1.5%.

A much more respectable number for the NASDAQ to flourish again, and for AUDJPY to follow.

🚫 No rule for Britannia: it seems like investors don't like the UK this lunchtime after 'The Interview'.

The FTSE is looking like its lacking its British charm this afternoon after the morning rally.

Again, this is likely linked to the rotation of the rotation away from value (of which the FTSE is an entirely value based index, since it has nothing exciting about it whatsoever) back to large cap tech.

Anaemic: we need more Deliveroos in the FTSE.

The 'FoodDeliverTech' firm announced its listing at a value of £7bn, hopefully paving the way for more up to date companies to choose London as their listing destination of choice.

#DisplaceTheBoomerFirms

For you crypto heads...

Equos, our crypto partner, is running a welcome campaign, as well as having recently introduced Ethereum perpetual contracts.

Check them out and let us know how you find them.

SPACtacular fail... or is it?

One SPAC has recently come under scrutiny from WolfPack Research.

The research house says...

Bad motives: On their Twitter, they reckon the intention was to dump on retail at the highest possible valuation.

But when I checked, there were zero insider sells AT ALL.

And the apparent 'non-deal' with the NFL...

Was in fact done and dusted.

Instead of bringing the SPAC into disrepute, they have brought themselves into disrepute, ironically by jumping too soon at the new craze of deriding SPACs.

No fan: I think SPACs are largely indicative of the market at the moment (i.e a bit crazy and unnecessary) but at the same time, so is jumping to critique something without having bothered to do the adequate research.

GameStop Won't... Stop

Everyone's favourite memestonk is rallying again, now up 5 days in a row, gaining ~15% in pre-market.

The price has already recovered to $223, could there be more to come...?

The price is being pushed higher by the new the e-commerce strategy, short squeezes and anticipation of the retail meme mania continuing when those stimmies hit the accounts...

The FT report on the rise of the retail army: amateur traders transforming markets 

Charlie Munger doesn't approve...

No idea what he's on about... 😇