The impact is likely materially lower as well. Much of the interest income earnings is concentrated in high income/wealth cohorts who have a high propensity to save rather than spend.
Even a 50% spend rate (high) would have only added 50bps to nominal GDP over the last 9 qtrs.
We've been warning of an echo of last year's start-of-year price resets that made inflation in early 2023 look much worse than it really was. That's what today's CPI is. Every category is up, just like a year ago. These start-of-year effects are noise. The Fed should ignore them.
@EconstratPB
"Remember. The shape of the yield curve is a policy choice.
Powell is trying to thread a firehose through a needle and steepen the curve at a higher level without a recession.
Bonkers if he gets it done."
i swear i'm not a stalker, i just take notes when David talks
@netcapgirl
just wait until public markets realize technology that reduces the marginal cost of filling out administrative forms to almost zero isn't great for administrative positions
Apartment renters renewing their leases in 2024 are likely to see much smaller rent increases than they saw in any of the prior 3 years. Why? Because operators have a lot less runway on rents right now.
We measure this through what the industry calls "loss-to-lease" -- the…
2) might guess. More detailed productivity comments in this table.
I literally asked almost anyone I've talk to since last summer how much AI improved productivity, personally or at their employers, be it finance, tech or otherwise.
Some are v impressive Millennials or Gen Z's.
@Claudia_Sahm
now, a clever man would say cut because he would know that only a great fool would reach for pause. i am not a great fool so i can clearly not choose cut, but you must have known i was not a great fool; you would have counted on it, so i can clearly not choose pause
US population grew +3.8M in 2023 - the largest one-year increase in US history.
(We think a recent Census estimate of +1.6M growth underestimated immigration flows.)
The surge is likely short-lived as its almost all from immigration, which is conditional on policy,…
@robin_j_brooks
while i agree the g vs r math could use some improvement, i think the reverse repo chart probably gives some context for the short term issuance
if one zooms in on the pandemic period - its obvious reverse repo (RRP) operations filled the need for more safe cash-equivalent assets. Without the RRP, the US would've seen negative yields. The Bill issuance in 2023 is normalizing things - and not Yellen manipulating rates…
Last week, I wrote on why blocking is an essential part of any healthy social media site. That Elon wants to eliminate it proves my point: The people who most hate blocking are those who don't want to be disciplined for being anti-social on the internet.
@salolrac
@EconstratPB
@zerohedge
to a certain extent, social media amplifies extreme vibes and makes it harder to be optimistic long term as people just try to live and improve their lives
especially when moderate opinions are silent
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@wabuffo
I think wage growth = inflation rate is a misconception. Powell even talked about the level of wage growth consistent with 2% inflation at Brookings last year
Whether productivity growth is "real" is probably the most important question for 2024
The key to sustaining the deficit is productivity growth, which provides downward pressure on inflation while maintaining NGDP growth
H/T
@MarcGoldwein
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@NickTimiraos
and
@kylascan
Fintwit macros 2022: Lot of “people” will lose their 👔👔 this cycle.
Fintwit macros 2023: I post my thoughts weekly. Did you read it?
Susbtack circle jerk. 🤫🤐😂
@countdraghula
would add japan to the evidence list
think it's easier to think of NGDP as a function of productivity+population growth, Cobb-Douglas production function
long rates basically follow the Fisher equation of NGDP growth, or real + inflation = NGDP => long rates
H/T
@EconstratPB
@awealthofcs
i think people are overestimating the refi wave just like people overestimated the rate sensitivity of rate hikes
people that refi'ed <3 aren't going to automatically refi at 6%
@netcapgirl
@Citrini7
the internet made computation, communication, and data access cheaper. GPTs will compound on what the internet accomplished as the next "network api"
networking and HBM are going to be fun to watch in 2024 as people realize personal nodes are coming
H/T
@ResearchQf
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@karpathy
@BobEUnlimited
@pinebrookcap
Even ignoring real rates...the answer is supply
whether that's in the form of apartments/houses, refineries, green energy, data centers, robots, work force increase from employment (empowering disabled and healthier) remains to be seen
@NGDP_Advice
@EconstratPB
while i agree with the sentiment, don't think fed can "change" measures mid tightening cycle
also eu rate sensitivity is different than us due to 30yr option
Thoughts on productivity data & why it could be a game-changer (if it continues).
Wage growth = Productivity Growth + Inflation + Change in Labor Share
Productivity is a big deal, especially for policy 🧵
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@RyanDetrick
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There is no analog to the current regime. It has WW2 deficit spending, 70s Middle East conflict, 90s technology capex, and procyclical fiscal that drove up cash buffers and nonresidential jobs
What happens if productivity grows before NFP rolls over?
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@wabuffo
@davevermilion
You and
@pinebrookcap
have been in nonrecessionary slowdown and were basically the only macro accounts tweeting about productivity on Thursday.
David's statement below blew my mind a bit when I saw it
@conorsen
being able to account for the entire distribution of scenarios is probably going to be remembered well
the
@whstancil
for monetary policy trying to depolarize discussions
IMO the biggest mistake of many of MMT's famous proponents is to let this idea be captured politically. Kelton is very guilty of that and has done a great disservice with her book. Mosler is guilty of it, too.
The way I understand it, it's not at all a free money printing…
@SpaceForce623
@toiletkingcap
@EconstratPB
probably depends on how "full employment" turns out
there's ongoing redistribution of labor that's good for the real economy, which is affected by fiscal and demographics
@ResearchQf
probably the same reason thumbnails with flames get clicks
the first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don't know you're a member of the Dunning-Kruger club