Credit Market Overview
3rd September 2025
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America’s Next Nixon/Burns
21st August 2025
A sitting President leaning on a compliant Fed Chair is not unprecedented in UShistory. One of the most infamous examples involved Nixon pressuring Fed ChairArthur Burns to cut interest rates ahead of the 1972 election. It would be fair tosay that did not end well. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE For more information […] more
The Cycle That Won’t Die
8th August 2025
The US economy is in the longest period of expansion post yield curve inversion(38 months) on record. While the weight of higher interest rates has been a majorburden for certain cohorts, aggregate growth has continued owing to theunprecedented levels of government spending, immigration and combined fiscaland monetary support. The dichotomy that has emerged between the […] more
Credit Market Overview
6th August 2025
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Markets Reaching Peak Detachment
14th July 2025
Nvidia has become the world’s first $4trln company, the S&P 500 has reclaimedits all-time high and credit spreads have (almost) never been tighter. Meanwhiletrade policy uncertainty (tariffs), geopolitics (Cold War 2.0?) and global economicgrowth are at best unsupportive at worst deeply concerning. With the additional kicker of (US) real rates at near 20-year highs, one […] more
Credit Market Overview
1st July 2025
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Breaking Down the Bond Market
27th June 2025
The bond market at present is facing competing narratives – on the one hand theprospect of higher inflation from tariffs, yet more debt issuance from the BigBeautiful Bill, and general negativity towards the US Dollar (and broader USassets).On the other, there is the growing sense that the economy is on the cuspof a material slowdown, […] more
Credit Market Overview
4th June 2025
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Sins Of The Past
16th May 2025
Today’s political landscape bears striking similarities to the turbulent politics of the1930s, while economic challenges echo those of the 1970s. However, the root causes ofthese issues did not originate in the ’30s and ’70s but rather in the preceding decades —the 1920s and 1960s. History has shown us that the only way to avoid repeating […] more
End of the Great Moderation
13th May 2025
The structural fall in macro economic volatility (inflation and interest rates) which beganin the early 1980s, and whose decline set in post 2008, finally came to end with thePandemic in 2020. The most profound implication of this change can be seen in the areaof policy making, where Central Banks who for decades have been fighting […] more
