February 2013 ~ Macro Man

It's How You Tell 'Em

TMM had another bout of road rage this morning. Fortunately the cause and target of the rage wasn't another road user, rather the qual...

There you go. Spain last time, Italy this time. When you are looking for a "something" to catalyse a positional shake down you rea...

After prompting from a reader and getting bored of guessing Italian election outcomes, we have adapted Messrs Gilbert and Sullivan's &qu...

The Fed might not have used the I-word but their discussions behind the scenes towards continued QE must have involved it. We would like to...

Fee Fi Fo FOMC. Do the Fed Smell the Blood of Inflation? First we must share a video produced by one of our readers under the name "B...

Team Macro Man translate the G20 Communiqué. The original is in italics. Communiqué Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Govern...

First some house keeping. EUR/GBP closed favourably but we weren't nimble enough when it dipped in eur/jpy and had to take a hit. And o...

Dr Aghi mentioned the F word yesterday and today Japan's Aso may or may not have used the F word depending on which news feed, associat...

A quicky pre Carney ECB day - TMM felt that the last ECB meeting was dominated by Dr Aghi's valedictory performance not unlike a retur...

Yesterday morning TMM were somewhat relieved to find Spain and Italy the focus of attention as Friday's rip higher had us feeling like ...

13) The UK will NOT adopt either a Nominal GDP level or growth target. Since George Osborne surprised the Establishment by appointing th...