April 2015 ~ Macro Man

The euro breaks higher

What can we say? The GDP data was terrible and the Fed clearly acknowledged the slowdown in US economic momentum. The euro clearly broke ...

So it's Fed day today, though Macro Man struggles to get excited about a meeting that even Janet Yellen conceded last month isn't re...

Readers who frequent the comments section have been treated to a spirited discussion over the past couple days surrounding the arrest of Nav...

* The PBOC dropped the hammer with a 100 bp RRR cut, predictably sending the AUD into raptures (well, relatively speaking) as of the time of...

1) German citizen realizes that she paid 100.20 for a bond and that she'll only get 100 back in 5 years 2) Constancio tells her i...

So the big news at the time of writing (9 pm NY time) is an FT story wherein a Greek official says that this time, they are serious about de...

Macro Man isn't quite sure what to make of things these days. Since the poor, illiquid payroll data, the USD has surged back, with pun...

Sometimes, being left to ones own devices isn't such a bad thing, as Macro Man found yesterday. He started with a nice 55 mile bike ri...

Although the passage of month/quarter end should once again open up the taps for risk-taking, Macro Man (and he imagines a number of others)...

The number of words that Ben Bernanke has written explaining why market interest rates are so low in his new blog : 2,560 Mentions of ...