As we come to the end of 2012 we find that, like a movie, the stresses and strains, the thrills and spills and loose ends are all being tidi...
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THE CLIFF - A Pantomime
A friend of Team Macro Man has offered us his script for a seasonal dramatic romp. Though you may think it is remarkably familiar, we now p...
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Cliff Up. The Broker Call
It's a quiet Friday afternoon and as we know when there is nothing else to yell about "The Cliff" takes center stage. So TMM a...
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A Thanksgiving Quiz
1. Thanksgiving is a) A time to remember and give thanks for coming through dark times. b) A time for family. c) A time to make wide pr...
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Bingo Calls
We have felt like involuntary bungee jumpers over the last week, praying for the cord to tighten before we hit the concrete. This week sees ...
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Business Bicycle.
Our last post saw this as part of an anonymous comment - "I am commenting for the first time to just point out that it feels like the ...
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Decoding the Soundbites
Decoding the soundbites... GREECE - EU-IMF FEUD ERUPTS OVER GREEK DEBT Market response: If even the EU and IMF cant agree on a package what...
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Moral Petards
A US partial holiday today is being used as an excuse for quiet markets so micro-numbers are of little interest today. But the past week has...
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Holiday Poem. Phone frustrations.
Phone Frustrations I just wrote A poem for you. Took some time. A good one too. Clever words Describing dealing. Lilts that jangled, ...
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Policy Uncertainty Falls.
This afternoon's dramatic moves lower in equities and oil have been pinned on Romney trades being unwound, but we do get the feeling th...
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Hollande's Regrets
Today is box-ticking day in the US, but we really haven't got anything to add to the debate. Instead we are more interested in the data...
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Investors and the Fiscal Cliff
Team Macro Man can't believe that the US administration will take the economy over the fiscal cliff. However we can see some investors g...
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I'm a CTA... Get Me Out of Here!
One of the elephants in TMM's room has been the behaviour of the markets in the US morning. Strange things have been afoot that have ha...
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Calculated Stupidity
Yesterday TMM were tripped into thinking about the complexity of algorithms and their place in this world against old fashioned humanness. ...
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Introspection Day
Today the financial blogosphere has lit itself up with some introspective self-illumination as to what is happening within the structure of ...
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All Talk and Missing the Action
We should do that more often. When we want markets to move we should write about them being dead because it's all a bit interesting agai...
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Tax the Car to Save the Cart
The China data is on the face of it a bit of something for everyone. The headline's were a surprise to some, but not to all ( see our la...
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Taking the Plunge.
Plan a) was to buy at last night's close. And we have, filling up on the small "just in case" purchases on Monday with more ri...
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Golf Balls
Ball-into-hole-knocking reached a new crescendo last night when some European ball hitters put their balls into some holes having hit them l...
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A Not Too Cunning Plan (or Three)
It's all going a bit Europe again, even to the extent that China has borrowed a leaf from the European lesson book and pushed back sched...
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Current Currents and Meanderings.
It's sort of going according to plan. "Sort of" in as much as plans never really go as planned but are a weaving together of ...
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Comforting Antequities
We are sure that the poem IF has been done to death by us before, but are in half a mind to rewrite it with "being long dollars" a...
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The New Colossus
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by Emma Lazarus, written in 1883 and, in 1903, engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the l...
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Bits and Bobs
Hamlet Act III - Basically they will or they won't or they may do a bit or they may not or they.... Oh take your pick and trade on it i...
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