The market has loosened financial conditions


The market has loosened financial conditions in the last week by bidding up stocks, while tightening them by raising bond yields. 

There are any number of ways to measure exactly how tight conditions are, and the current bout of speculative exuberance makes it hard to believe that they’re very restrictive.

John Authers Bloomberg 14 november 2024

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-14/inflation-stops-falling-and-needs-subtlety-it-s-getting-trump





Many economists  warned  plans to enact sweeping tariffs and deport millions of immigrants risk reigniting inflationary pressures when the worst bout for a generation has yet to be fully tamed.

The economists who support Trump’s economic agenda — figures such as Stephen Moore, Arthur Laffer and Larry Kudlow — believe his tax cuts will boost demand. Their impact on growth will raise tax revenues, shrinking the country’s gargantuan deficit in the process

Financial Times 14 November 2024



Larry Kudlow is, of course, the chairman of the National Economic Council, in effect Trump’s chief economist. 

He’s also famous among those who follow such things for his remarkable track record of being wrong about everything

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2020/07/larry-kudlow-krugman-about.html









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