“Without synthetic fertiliser billions of people would never have been born”
ADM is one of the world’s biggest food processing and commodities trading companies. Weirdly, it tends to receive a lot less attention than some of its competitors like Glencore and Cargill. Even less well known is the fact that ADM also has an investor services arm, which — among other things — offers commodity brokerage […]
Why “safe assets” may not exist anymore
An interesting point comes by way of veteran fixed income market watcher, Marc Ostwald, of ADM Investor Services, in his latest quarterly publication “Ghost in the Machine”. It caught my eye because of how it aligns with my own thesis about the end of dollar neutrality. As Ostwald notes: If everything can be weaponised, as […]
In the Blind Spot (Gosplan, Falklands, Chelsea)
Finance, Markets, economy etc… Vanity Fair deep dives into the Dan Loeb school of activist investing. Serena Williams, Lewis Hamilton join former Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton’s consortium to buy Chelsea football club. Israel adds China’s yuan for the first time ever while cutting its dollar holdings in biggest currency reshuffle in a decade. Rana Foroohar […]
Why the oil price is not what it seems
Just because oil prices are absorbing the prospect of an outright European ban on Russian imports well, doesn’t mean there won’t be a major breakout to $300 per barrel highs if and when such a ban is executed.
The end of dollar neutrality and what it means for funding markets
Why the current crisis represents the end of the neutral dollar era.
In the Blind Spot this Easter Sunday (Versailles, Elon, Precasting)
Finance, economics, markets etc… The illustrated Zoltan Pozsar. This week’s Blind Spot spotlight is on what I have termed “the end of dollar neutrality” and why this is an important historical marker for finance. It riffs on Zoltan but takes things in its own direction. After I wrote it, however, Zoltan popped up with a […]
Almost an energy mea culpa from Boris
I’ve been pretty up front about the fact that the precarious energy situation we find ourselves in today is mostly of our own making. Even so, it still hasn’t been stressed enough that so much of it is due to the UK’s and Europe’s specific insistence that removing natural gas from the energy mix to […]
Me and Bobby Malone
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
Nothin’, don’t mean nothin’, honey, if it ain’t free, no no*
In the Blind Spot on Friday (Yergin, Nukes, Democracy)
Housekeeping note: Still running a reduced service because of the Easter hols. But will be back with gusto soon. Finance, markets, etc.. The ECB did a CBDC survey, and it turns out people are keen on privacy. More on how Zoltan Pozsar sees the world. Energy crisis threatens to eclipse 1970s shocks, says Daniel Yergin. […]
In the Blind Spot on Tuesday (Elon, Oil futures, Off balance sheet affairs)
Some housekeeping: It’s the Easter holidays so posting will be intermittent and light for the next two weeks. But not totally absent! Finance, markets etc… Pippa Malmgren on the off-balance sheet world. A really interesting piece that essentially makes explicit what has been implicit for a long time. That globalism and open source practice has […]