Blue Owl is back, the beleaguered alternative fund manager making news this time by refusing to partner back up with beleaguered former AI bubble star Oracle. This is big, especially since before now Blue Owl and Oracle worked together on seemingly everything. We’ve even got Tether’s CEO feeling the winds shift, admitting how Bitcoin’s struggles, for example, are a reflection of both the credit cycle and bursting AI anxiety. Eurodollar University's conversation w/Steve Van Metre ----------------...
Dec 22, 2025•22 min•Ep. 1269
Miami leads the nation in home de-listings, that is number of sellers who realize the housing situation is bad and getting worse, therefore simply pull their property off the market. De-listings nationally have soared this year, led by Miami and Florida. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Sellers came back into the market thinking lower interest rates were going to lure buyers. Why wouldn’t they? That’s what everyone says. Falling rates are stimulus and real estate is the most sensitive to it. ...
Dec 21, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1268
Tariff inflation continues to go down in flames, yet central bankers refuse to let it go. The US CPI report for November was released today and the details should help put all this to rest – especially alongside the payroll numbers from earlier in the week. However, over in Europe both the ECB and Bank of England claim they need to be vigilant about tariff inflation at the same time job losses and unemployment pile up even higher. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis --------------...
Dec 19, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1267
The BLS confirmed the US labor market has indeed entered flat Beveridge territory with profound implications. What are they? What does this mean moving forward? Join me at 1:30pm ET to find out. Also, join me later tonight for a very special webinar where we are going to be doing a COMPREHENSIVE review of on set of consequences from flat Beveridge: cockroaches and the credit market cycle. We'll go over all the smoke rising from the space and assess whether or not there's fire behind it - and tak...
Dec 18, 2025•29 min•Ep. 1266
Chinese investment crashed yet again in November, the second straight month of bigtime declines. Only this time FAI was joined by consumer spending. Retail sales over in China also crashed last month, dropping by almost half a percent in November alone. That’s enormous. It follows terrible data on household lending and bank credit. All of it points to an increasingly familiar topic and condition: China big economic slide is sliding right onto flat Beveridge. Eurodollar University's Money & M...
Dec 17, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1265
So, Jay Powell just casually strolled to the podium at his press conference last week and announced the Fed now believes the US has been losing jobs at a rate of 20,000 per month. From strong and resilient to solid to, ah, so what we’re now shedding jobs by the tens of thousands per month. Do you see it yet? The Treasury curve does, which is why it is moving into its final form in this long un-inversion process, with the big moves taking shape and doing most of the reshaping right in Chair Powel...
Dec 16, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1264
IBM’s CEO said there is “no way” that the massive spending on AI and data centers will ever pay off. For the first time in this bubble cycle people are finally wondering if maybe he is right. It couldn’t have come at a more critical time in light of Oracle’s shocking results. And then Broadcom failed to live up to the hype. In many ways, AI is the last pillar holding the forgot how to grow economy together, from both investments and stock-fueled consumer spending. Eurodollar University's convers...
Dec 15, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1263
France’s President called it a matter of life and death for European industry. The head of the European Commission said it has reached “an inflection point.” The Chinese have been trying to export their way out of what is now a major downturn. The truth is, neither side has much choice; the Chinese have to do it and the Europeans have to start resisting it. What China just reported in banking and the economy shows they’re out of options even if it means sinking relations with an entire continent...
Dec 14, 2025•19 min•Ep. 1262
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Dec 12, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1261
Live replay on December FOMC decision. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDU's Webinar Series Thursday December 17, 6pm ET A Trillion-Dollar Eurodollar Bomb is going Off on Wall Street The most important funding system in the world is flashing warning signals, and almost no one is paying attention. https://event.webinarjam.com/m9wym/register/n0rnxu7n --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDU LIVE 2026 If ...
Dec 11, 2025•25 min•Ep. 1260
Swiss central bankers are being forced to choose between negative interest rates and negative consumer prices by the increasingly negative direction of the globally synchronized system. On a monthly basis, Switzerland’s CPI declined in November for the fourth straight month as the country tries to work through contractions in output and a small but noticeable rise in unemployment. This all should sound familiar because, again, globally synchronized. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Anal...
Dec 10, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1259
There is a debate raging on Wall Street and across the markets about what’s happening in private credit right now and what that might mean moving forward. We’ve gotten past the initial shock, the Tricolor and First Brands fiascos, the first round of hedge fund redemptions, so now what? Well, to begin with, there’s what banks are doing right now and then there are warnings still coming in from key players across the industry. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis If you’re a serious ...
Dec 09, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1258
The most important funding system in the world is flashing warning signals. Most people won't notice until it's too late. I'm hosting a free webinar to break down what's happening and what it means for your portfolio. https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/risks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Automotive insurance claims are estimated to have dropped around 9% so far this year. That sounds like a good thing, but it’s an ominous sign. There haven’t b...
Dec 08, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1257
The yen has made a huge move over the past seven months and no one can figure out why. According to every mainstream economic theory, JPY should be soaring not sinking. It’s got the government in Tokyo hollering about currency intervention claiming there is no fundamental reason for the yen’s plight. Except, there is and we just got more confirmation as household spending there utterly plunged in September and October. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis --------------------------...
Dec 07, 2025•19 min•Ep. 1256
After weeks of speculation, back and forth over bad theories on inflation and what seemed to be a steady stream of hawk-sounding Fed policymakers, the market has spoken. We know right now what the FOMC is going to do next Wednesday. But what comes after that is still somewhat up in the air, though not nearly as much as you might think given all the noise recently. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...
Dec 05, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1255
November now makes three of the last four months and four of the last six with negative private payrolls. According to ADP, the US private economy shed 32k jobs last month, the most yet in the cycle. And it turns the 6m average negative for the first time, so serious problems in labor – which are creating bigger ones in the housing market. According to the latest official numbers from the government, home prices fell for the fourth time in the last five months and that brought the annual rate of...
Dec 04, 2025•19 min•Ep. 1254
Consumer products giant Proctor & Gamble just came out with an unusual warning about its core business, consumer products meaning consumers. The maker of Tide detergent, Mr. Clean, Pampers, Gilette and whole bunch of other brands you use every single day just said that sales were down “significantly” in October and that it likely continued right on through November. This tracks with where Christmas holiday shopping has been so far with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Eurodollar University's M...
Dec 03, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1253
December begins with a decided risk-off mood in financial markets, led by more painful liquidations in crypto. Bitcoin starts off the month with a nearly 7% drop to what would be a new recent low. Why? Economic woes continue to dominate concerns. Starting with Chicago, ISM’s regional business barometer put up its largest single month decline in new orders in more than two years. Backlogs crashed by nearly 22 points to the lowest since March 2009. Its employment index fell to the worst since May ...
Dec 02, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1252
HP becomes the latest big name to announce major layoffs, said to be around 6000 more white collar jobs. It’s getting to the point where despite all the mainstream and social media attention, call it fixation, on the tariff inflation faction at the Fed, the latest economic update from the central bank has almost nothing in it about that. Instead, it’s cover-to-cover with worries about HP, Amazon, and all the smaller businesses we never hear about who nonetheless are finding themselves on the sam...
Dec 01, 2025•17 min•Ep. 1251
China sold a record amount of Treasuries last quarter, which is actually more confirmation of the monetary tightening story over the summer which is now spilling out into the mainstream in the form of elevated repo rates, SOFR, and repo borrowing from the Fed. At the same time and for very much related reasons, private foreign counterparties were buying huge amounts of, yes, US Treasuries. There was no rejection at all, quite the contrary all of it pointing to growing expectations for the fallou...
Nov 30, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1250
Repo. It’s back. Or more accurately, never really left. When we last left off with it, things were calming down which is not unusual in these circumstances. That didn’t mean it was a one-time, one-off matter, just that in the middle of the month there isn’t a whole lot going on. But now with the Thanksgiving holiday here and December approaching, repo rates are up, borrowing from the Fed is back, and in related developments the hedge fund-private credit world is getting spicier. Eurodollar Unive...
Nov 27, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1249
Despite half the Federal Reserve’s best efforts to take away the December rate cut, the bond market is signaling from top to bottom, back to front it doesn’t care one bit. The FOMC can spout off on tariff inflation, they can claim there is no way they’ll support lowering rates next month, yields are going down and taking inflation expectations with them. The bond market is making big moves despite KC Jeff and his federal funds band. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis ------------...
Nov 26, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1248
India’s rupee broke, plunging and I mean plunging Friday to a new record low and once again embarrassing the country’s central bank which had been intervening heavily for the past month. The funny thing is, there really wasn’t much of a trigger to it, at least not on the surface. The rupee continues to be a major global bellwether that often has less to do with India specifically. This once again appears to be one of those cases especially with the dollar making big moves against other important...
Nov 25, 2025•20 min•Ep. 1247
Over half of American homes lost value over the last year, the highest number since...2012. More importantly, even the media is catching on that something big changed this summer in real estate. The reason why the housing market is retreating isn't interest rates. Lower mortgage costs have not sparked a turnaround in the face of all expectations they would. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis In a world where markets swing on every headline, focus matters. That’s why Eurodollar Un...
Nov 24, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1246
Nvidia was a bust. Not the company’s earnings and forecasts, those were stellar. Instead, it didn’t provide the buying boost everyone thought it would. Stocks lost ground. Bitcoin continues to get hammered, down by a third in roughly six weeks. What is going on here? The answer, or answers, are coming from the cockroaches. There’s more to the Blue Owl hedge fund story. Plus, Bitcoin is correlating with what we call the triple hooks. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis ------------...
Nov 23, 2025•21 min•Ep. 1245
After Home Depot disappointed and Target got slammed, Walmart reported results that were above expectations because in this economic climate the Target and Home Depot’s losses are Walmart’s gains. And its strength came from all income brackets, though high-income Americans are increasingly turning to Walmart. That’s not good. But it does fit with the long-delayed payroll data that just came out, which you’ll be shocked to learn has another revision turning another monthly number negative. That m...
Nov 21, 2025•22 min•Ep. 1244
While everyone else is glued to Nvidia, the results from Home Depot and Target will have far more to say about the markets and a lot more. Plus others like TJ Maxx, Bitcoin and the surprising Fed minutes that has a lot to say about the status of December's rate cut. Bloomberg Wary Stock Bulls Eye Walmart, Target for Clues to Consumer Health https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-17/wary-stock-bulls-eye-walmart-target-for-clues-to-consumer-health?srnd=phx-economics-v2 Economic Times T...
Nov 20, 2025•25 min•Ep. 1243
We went from the economy is strong and resilient, credit markets are fine reaching for yield to big names like Jamie Dimon and now so-called bond king Jeffrey Gundlach openly talking about cockroaches and garbage lending that are looking more like 2006 and 2007 every day. We’ve even got news of more hedge fund redemptions. Unlike a few months ago, now all of a sudden the possibilities seem plausible to people who forever refused to even consider the idea. Eurodollar University's Money & Macr...
Nov 19, 2025•19 min•Ep. 1242
The European labor market is on the cusp of its own flat Beveridge moment. That danger was amplified by the third quarter contraction in the Swiss economy, which, as we know, is a key leading global indicator. And if all that wasn’t enough, a group of German Economists, of all people, just tore into the mainstream European narrative of Europe being in a good place. They even went so far as correctly, of course, crap all over the Berlin bazooka. Eurodollar University's Money & Macro Analysis ...
Nov 18, 2025•19 min•Ep. 1241
An unprecedented slump in Chinese investment. That’s what one media outlet called it. I don’t think slump is the right word. Crash might be a more appropriate one. While that tends to be overused, the numbers show not in this case. Especially when they are backed up by a crash in household lending in China, too, as Chinese banks just put up more grim stats. And all of this confirmation of what I told you months ago, the something big has changed over there this summer. Eurodollar University's Mo...
Nov 17, 2025•19 min•Ep. 1240
