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NFIB small business index, household spending expectations, restaurant performance index, Trump news

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Trumped up expectations coming off only slowly. Actual business conditions havenot yet responded: Not much optimism here: Trumped up expectations reversed more quickly here: Indicates active selling of US equities and buying of euro equities. This could be part of the process of portfolio managers selling $US to buy euro, reversing shifting in the other direction for the last several years as portfolios shifted out of euro due to political fears and fears of ‘money printing’ by the ECB, which have failed to be of expected consequence. Meanwhile, at current fx prices, the massive euro area trade surplus continues, which is by identity a ‘rest of world’ deficit, ‘draining’ that many net euro from the global economy: This was yesterday’s news and has already been

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Trumped up expectations coming off only slowly. Actual business conditions have
not yet responded:

NFIB small business index, household spending expectations, restaurant performance index, Trump news

Not much optimism here:

NFIB small business index, household spending expectations, restaurant performance index, Trump news

Trumped up expectations reversed more quickly here:

NFIB small business index, household spending expectations, restaurant performance index, Trump news

NFIB small business index, household spending expectations, restaurant performance index, Trump news

Indicates active selling of US equities and buying of euro equities. This could be part of the process of portfolio managers selling $US to buy euro, reversing shifting in the other direction for the last several years as portfolios shifted out of euro due to political fears and fears of ‘money printing’ by the ECB, which have failed to be of expected consequence.

Meanwhile, at current fx prices, the massive euro area trade surplus continues, which is by identity a ‘rest of world’ deficit, ‘draining’ that many net euro from the global economy:

NFIB small business index, household spending expectations, restaurant performance index, Trump news

This was yesterday’s news and has already been replaced by today’s stories as this type of thing seems to be growing exponentially:

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WARREN MOSLER
Warren Mosler is an American economist and theorist, and one of the leading voices in the field of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Presently, Warren resides on St. Croix, in the US Virgin Islands, where he owns and operates Valance Co., Inc.

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