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Good morning, and God bless, #Team42! Today’s Key Macro Question(s): Is the US heading into another emerging market-style crisis that forces the Fed to supply QE? The Nominal 30yr Treasury Yield briefly pierced 5% for the first time since November 2023 as investors questioned the haven status of US sovereign debt, sending the dollar lower for a second day and fueling fears that growing market volatility and stress may trigger a systemic break in financial plumbing. The Nominal 10yr Treasury Yield climbed 15bps to 4.44%, extending a week-to-date surge to 41bps, while the 30yr spiked 47bps week-to-date—its biggest three-day move since November 2020. The Treasury rout spilled into global bond markets, with the UK’s borrowing costs soaring to their highest level since 1998 and Japanese 40-year bond yields hitting an all-time high. Explanations for the selloff range from foreign investor liquidation of US debt to hedge funds unwinding over $1tn in basis trades to a broader reevaluation of US debt by global reserve managers. That it is likely all three is contributing to fresh speculation across global Wall Street that the Fed may need to step in to stabilize the bond market. Perversely, investors should welcome Treasury market dysfunction like this because it is the fastest route to the Fed supplying the QE asset markets require to curtail the worst of the global debt refinancing air pocket we have been warning about since last fall. Recall the Fed intervened in the Treasury market to the tune of $1.6tn in March 2020 during the COVID crisis. Indeed, this is the second such emerging market-style financial crisis the US has experienced in five years. There’s speculation that China is offloading Treasuries in response to tariffs, with some investors suggesting Beijing is reassessing its US debt holdings in light of Trump’s trade war. Such a move would undermine Treasuries’ safe-haven status, although official data show both China and Japan have been trimming holdings for years. The share of marketable Treasury securities owned by foreign central banks has declined from a peak of 40% in 2008 to only 13% currently. Investor anxiety in the Treasury market deepened following a weak three-year auction Tuesday, setting the stage for a nervous $39bn 10-year auction Wednesday and a 30-year sale Thursday. Investor anxiety is also being fanned by President Trump’s deepening trade war, which is contributing to concerns about the outlook for global inflation. While we do not view tariffs as inflationary, supply chain disruption that persists for years will certainly feel like inflation to consumers, businesses, and reported inflation data. Trump’s latest tariffs now push tariffs on Chinese goods as high as 104% and EU imports now face a 20% levy. “A major tariff” on pharmaceuticals is in the pipeline, according to Trump. US equity futures briefly turned green and Treasuries pared losses after China signaled openness to talks, though Beijing doubled down on its resolve to “fight to the end” and rebuked JD Vance for his “Chinese peasants” remark, leaving markets uneasy. This comes after markets whipsawed Tuesday, rallying as Trump teased South Korea negotiations, then sliding after his administration confirmed it would move forward with sweeping China tariffs. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told lawmakers: “We will have the president’s plan going into effect and we’re coupling that with immediate negotiations with our partners.” On Tuesday, Trump said he had a “great call” with South Korea’s interim leader Han Duck-soo and posted that “things are looking good,” as Seoul signaled it wants a “big trade deal”. Japan sent senior envoys to D.C. after Trump’s Monday call with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. White House Trade and Manufacturing Czar Peter Navarro rejected claims that Trump’s tariffs are mere leverage, insisting they are core to a strategy to reassert US dominance, revive manufacturing, and extract geopolitical concessions. China remains defiant, vowing to “fight to the end,” and with Xi Jinping unlikely to engage in near-term talks, the trade war risk grows. Premier Li Qiang said China has “ample policy tools” to offset Trump’s tariffs. Other major economies are retaliating too. For example, Canada imposed a 25% counter-tariff on auto imports right after midnight, while France and Germany continue to push for a more aggressive EU response. @RayDalio warned markets are obsessing over tariffs and missing the bigger “once in a lifetime” realignment of monetary, political, and geopolitical systems. “There are big pressures for these imbalances to be corrected one way or another and doing so will change the monetary order in major ways,” Dalio wrote, adding that “it is obviously incongruous to have both large trade imbalances and large capital imbalances in a deglobalizing world in which the major players can’t trust that the other major players won’t cut them off from the items they need (which is an American worry) or pay them the money they are owed (which is a Chinese worry).” We view the current meltdown in the Treasury market as part and parcel of the Fourth Turning polycrisis that we have been preparing 42 Macro clients for since the summer of 2023 when we first debuted our Investing During A Fourth Turning Regime presentation. One of the key takeaways from the presentation is our structural bearish bias on Treasury bonds and expectation that the US would have a cascading series of EM-style financial crises that require greater and greater monetary debasement and financial repression by the Fed to calm Treasury market dysfunction. Ultimately, the Fed will be forced to go to unprecedented lengths to plug the growing, geopolitically driven supply-demand imbalance in the Treasury bond market once the world deems the US to be in fiscal crisis—an outcome we still anticipate by 2030. I get chills when I think about the impact such a great monetary inflation would have on the poorest members of our society—i.e., the people I grew up with. That is why I am so passionate about helping investors and ordinary people prepare for these global macro risks. We put this deeply researched view into action when we pivoted our systematic KISS Portfolio Construction Process permanently out of Treasuries and into Gold last fall. We currently feature that Oct-24 Around the Horn presentation on our Sample 42 Macro Research page: 42macro.com/42-macro-sampl…. You can preview our “US fiscal crisis by 2030” thesis here: x.com/dariusdale42/s…. We provided a detailed update regarding this deeply researched view on slides 56-84 in our Apr-25 Macro Scouting Report presentation last Friday when the 10yr Nominal Treasury Yield closed below 4%. Although @42Macro currently advises a collection of systemically important buy side clients whose cumulative AUM is well north of $25 trillion, any investor in the world can access this content via our Macro Strategist or Macro Strategist Pro subscriptions here: 42macro.com/research. We price our top-tier Wall Street research so that every investor on Main Street has a chance to compete for returns too. Social mobility is very important to me as someone that grew up living exclusively in public housing, homeless shelters, and the occasional automobile. Please like AND repost this note if you support my mission to truly democratize the best of Wall Street. Elsewhere, Delta $DAL scrapped its full-year guidance amid global trade uncertainty, with CEO Ed Bastian warning that revenue has “flat-lined” and lamenting, “It’s very difficult to predict what policies may look like over the course of the year.” Expect many companies to pull guidance during Q1 earnings season due to “uncertainty”—whatever the heck that means. Review what we wrote yesterday for details on why this cowardly act prolongs bear markets. If you found this note helpful, please like and share. Thank you! Consistently making money and protecting gains in financial markets require a lot of time, expertise, and computational power. Investors partner with 42 Macro because we do the heavy lifting and answer the hard questions for them. See for yourself: 42macro.com/42-macro-sampl…. Have a great day! -Skipper







