“The interest burden of the debt is at what I would call normal historical levels.” Janet Yellen. June 2024. US Treasury Secretary Yellen (Professor Yellen, as we know her) gives a masterclass in o…| Convex Strategies
Nassim Taleb introduced the concept of Wittgenstein’s ruler in the first book of his Incerto series, “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in Markets”. He elaborated on the c…| Convex Strategies
“At the Monetary Policy Meeting held today, the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan assessed the virtuous cycle between wages and prices, and judged it came in sight that the price stability target o…| Convex Strategies
“I have been working in or around central banks for over fifty years. To my regret, as I look back on my career, I can now see that I was often guided by an evolving set of false beliefs about how …| Convex Strategies
Last month we titled our Update “Recession. Yay!” in which we said this: “As we have stated over recent months, the ‘good outcome’ would be to get to the recession, and we see people willingly buy …| Convex Strategies
“Those whose job it is to manage risk today tend to focus on the things to which probabilities can be attached and shrug their shoulders about everything else.” Niall Feguson, Oct. 2023. Decent not…| Convex Strategies