wonkmonk @wonkmonk_

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently." - David Graeber bit.ly/3kxa1EN Joined July 2010

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3 days ago

Why You Should Own (Some) Gold: @greg_ip wsj.com/finance/invest… archive.is/2lv0A Gold acts as insurance when bad things happen, from inflation and runaway government debt to war and political instability

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6 days ago

Top 10% of Earners Drive a Growing Share of US Consumer Spending bloomberg.com/news/articles/… "High-income Americans contribute roughly half of all US consumer spending, up from about a third in the early 1990s" linkedin.com/posts/mark-zan…

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2 weeks ago

What if the AI stockmarket blows up? economist.com/finance-and-ec… archive.is/Y7Dzm "For society at large, the consequences of tech crashes vary enormously. a number of factors matter most: what kick-starts the boom, the nature of the capital invested and who bears the losses."

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2 weeks ago

Do central banks really have more gold than US Treasury bonds? ft.com/content/0dbc43… archive.is/GZkyu "Is there a reserve manager move out of Treasuries and into gold? For sure. But the underlying reality isn’t quite as dramatic as it might seem on a chart."

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2 weeks ago

Barry Eichengreen: Could the U.S. Dollar Lose Its Dominance? It Did Once Before wsj.com/finance/curren… archive.is/zdDCX The U.S. currency’s rise and fall from prominence in the early 20th century offers lessons for today’s political leaders

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4 weeks ago

The illegal gold rush sweeping the world ft.com/content/cc4f62… archive.is/fNr8d Historic price rally lures criminals and paramilitaries into illicit mining from the Amazon to Sudan

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a month ago

The Iranian connection: how China is importing oil from Russia ft.com/content/19cebb… Networks of brokers and shipowners from Panama to Switzerland are becoming expert at circumventing international sanctions

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a month ago

Can China cope with a deindustrialised future? economist.com/finance-and-ec…

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2 months ago

Central Bank Liquidity Swaps: A Primer moneyandbanking.com/commentary/202…

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2 months ago

Fluctuations in the Treasury General Account and their effect on the Fed's balance sheet federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/…

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2 months ago

Christopher Waller: Demystifying the Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet (July 10, 2025) federalreserve.gov/newsevents/spe…

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2 months ago

"In reality, Treasury yields are only 20% correlated with fiscal policy and bond supply, but have strong correlations with Fed policy at 90%, core inflation at 80%, and wages at 75%." @EconguyRosie themarket.ch/english/david-…

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2 months ago

The bond market maths does not add up for governments ft.com/content/220909… "The OECD figures show that foreign investors owned 34 per cent of bonds in 2024, up from 29 per cent in 2021; foreigners are now the biggest single group of investors."

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2 months ago

The volatility paradox: why markets stay calm despite the noise ft.com/content/70305b… America has quietly become one of the world’s most shock‑resistant economies