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October 21, 2016
The 5 Cs—Could Congress Create Consecutive Crises?
Click here to view as PDF. “Most investors are not well-equipped for an analysis of that kind (political risk). They built their careers crunching numbers, not pondering social science.” -The Financial Times’ GILLIAN TETT “The roughly $275 billion in legal costs for global banks since 2008 translates into more than $5 trillion of reduced lending capacity […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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October 14, 2016
ULTRA-EASY MONEY: DIGGING THE HOLE DEEPER?
Click here to view as PDF. “To combat the depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about.” -Economist FREDERICH HAYEK, as relayed by William White in his Adam Smith prize acceptance speech last month. INTRODUCTION No BS from the BIS. Few non-professional […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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October 7, 2016
DEBATE: A TRUMP WIN AND THE DOLLAR
Click here to view as PDF. “Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.” -CHINESE PROVERB “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” -GENERAL GEORGE PATTON INTRODUCTION This month’s Gavekal-authored version of the Evergreen Virtual Advisor addresses what seems to be on everyone’s mind these days—you guessed it:  The US presidential […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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September 30, 2016
How much does the stock market have left in the tank?
Click here to view as PDF. “But we are restricted from investing in that wider range of assets…it could be useful (at a later date) to be able to intervene directly in assets where the prices have a more direct link to spending.” -JANET YELLEN, responding earlier this week as to whether the Fed had […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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September 23, 2016
When the spread isn’t the thing.
Click here to view as PDF. “Central banks are the largest blind buyers in the world, accumulating trillions of dollars worth of assets with no thought of price, valuation, or exit strategy.” -Jones Trading’s MIKE O'ROURKE INTRODUCTION This week’s EVA brings the second edition of our new Random Thoughts format. The goal with this approach […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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September 16, 2016
FROM THE NEW NORMAL TO THE NEW CRAZY
Click to view as PDF. “Monetary policy is not a panacea…Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.” -Former Fed chairman, BEN BERNANKE (in the days before he went all-in on Quantitative Easing—QE) INTRODUCTION This month’s Guest EVA is, in my opinion, […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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September 9, 2016
THE RETURN OF US FISCAL POLICY, THE OTHER PROPERTY INVENTORY PROBLEM IS EVEN BIGGER, AND I MUST ADMIT THAT I’M CONFUSED
Click to view as PDF. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” -ALBERT EINSTEIN INTRODUCTION In this month’s edition of our Gavekal-authored EVA, we are giving readers a sample of three different views from our partner firm. It’s fair to say that Gavekal’s deep team […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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September 2, 2016
Thermonuclear blast from the past.
Click here to view as PDF. “One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.” -RONALD REAGAN SUMMARY -This Labor Day is bringing back haunting memories of the same holiday weekend eight years ago. -Back then, former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson made the decision to place Fannie Mae […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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August 26, 2016
IS THE OIL CORRECTION OVER?
Click here to view as PDF. “He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.” -Hedge-fund titan, Ray Dalio “The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merit, the investment is invariably too dear and therefore unattractive.” -JOHN MAYNARD […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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August 19, 2016
How Wall Street stole $100 Billion from investors and no one noticed
Click here to view as PDF. INTRODUCTION This week’s edition of the Evergreen Virtual Advisor (EVA) is a return to one of our most popular formats, the Evergreen Exchange. This structure gives three of our team members the chance to agree, disagree, or simply comment on a topic of interest (with the constant hope that […]
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