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Trading Desk: Bring On The Warsh

When the White House announced that Kevin Warsh had received the nomination to succeed Jay Powell as Fed chair, risk markets pulled back. Once again, the Goldilocks crowd that demands nothing short of perfection seemed disappointed. But critics who say the real problem with Warsh

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Trading Desk: Diversification Or “Debasement?”

If you thought global markets were just grappling with a little overbuying indigestion, think again: Ray Dalio of Bridgewater piped up from Dubai to warn that the stakes just got significantly higher and that we are currently teetering on the edge of a full-blown capital

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Trading Desk: More Fed Drama

If you’ve been watching the latest season of “Capitol Hill versus Central Bank,” you know the writers are really ramping up the tension. The protagonist, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, recently dropped some advice for his successor that felt less like a retirement toast and

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Trading Desk: The TACO Trap

Wall Street loves a clever acronym almost as much as it loves a winning trade. For the last nine months, the street has been dining out on “TACO.” Short for “Trump Always Chickens Out,” this thesis became the golden rule for risk assets following the

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