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Research

Warsh's 60% Hike Odds: Why Jackson Hole Repaired Fed Credibility Before It Changed Rates

Kevin Warsh lifted September hike odds without offering a rate path. The contrarian trade is a credibility repair, not a policy promise.

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ECB

Lagarde's Qualified Unanimity: Why the ECB Just Did Forward Guidance While Denying It Does Forward Guidance

The ECB held rates on Thursday but Christine Lagarde disclosed that some Governing Council members asked for a hike and called the milder inflation scenario 'quite unlikely.' Bundesbank's Joachim Nagel and Central Bank of Ireland's Gabriel Makhlouf then spent Friday lining up the September case

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Treasury

Bessent's Bet: Why the Treasury's $270 Billion July Bill Push Just Turned Front-End Refinancing Into a Position Trade

The U.S. Treasury is issuing roughly $270 billion in bills this month, has pushed the bill share of marketable debt to 22 percent from a Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee guideline of 15-20 percent, and is projected to sell $827 billion in bills across 2026 against $360 billion in 2025. Con

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Federal Reserve

The Dissent Warsh Won't Manage: Lorie Logan Just Reset the July FOMC From a Hold Into a Two-Sided Volatility Event

Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan on Thursday became the first FOMC voter to call publicly for a rate hike since Kevin Warsh took over the Fed chairmanship in May. The market read that as a fringe hawkish speech at the end of a slow week. It is not. It is the first live dissent facing a Fed chai

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Oil

The Risk Premium Is Back: Why the New Oil Shock Is a Rates Trade, Not an Energy Trade

Brent's 8 percent spike on Wednesday looks like an energy story. It is not. The relevant screen is the oil volatility index, which is now trading three times the S&P equivalent — a duration variable that will feed straight into the term premium and the central bank reaction functions the market spen

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Fed

The Payrolls Report Warsh Was Waiting For: Why the 720,000 Labor Force Exit Vindicates the Fed's Data-First Regime, Not the Market's Dovish Repricing

The June jobs report was weak on the headline and dovish on the trade. Underneath, 720,000 people left the labor force in a single month and the participation rate hit a five-year low. That is a supply-side print, not a demand-side one, and it is precisely the data profile Kevin Warsh's new communic

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ECB

Sintra's New Playbook: Why Lagarde Just Buried Forward Guidance and Why Markets Have Yet to Reprice It

Christine Lagarde opened the ECB's Sintra forum by declaring the end of forward guidance and replacing it with what she calls framework guidance. Within 24 hours, Nagel and Wunsch were already in open disagreement about whether another hike is needed. The post-pandemic central banking template is be

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Macro

The Repricing the Fed Didn't Get: Why a Three-Year-High PCE Print Pulled Hike Odds Down, Not Up

May PCE breached 4% for the first time in three years. The Fed's own dot plot expects hikes. Yet the 2-year Treasury yield fell on the print, July hike odds collapsed, and the rates market said the opposite of what the data said. The trade is in the divergence.

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Research

Warsh's One Proposal: Why the FOMC Just Retired the Powell Playbook in 130 Words

John Grey — Macro & cross-asset desk The Federal Reserve held its target range at 3.50 to 3.75 percent for the fourth consecutive meeting on Wednesday. The unanimous 12-0 vote was the headline. It was also the least important thing that happened in Washington this week. The

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Research

The 8-4 Vote: Why the Fed's Deepest Split Since 1992 Is a Communication Crisis, Not a Policy One

The market read the four April dissents as a hawkish tilt and repriced cuts out. The deeper read is a forward-guidance crisis that lifts the term premium floor.

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Research

The Hike That Entered the Conversation: Why 4.56% Tens Are a Regime Signal, Not a Panic

December hike odds doubled to 40% in a week. The story is not transient inflation. It is the duration premium being rebuilt in real time.

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Research

The Words That Survived: Treasury's Quiet Duration Decision

Treasury kept 'at least' in its forward guidance and bill issuance as the load-bearing tool. Q2 needs lifted to $189bn, Q3 to $671bn. We see a stealth duration