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September 01, 2025
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HEM: Politicised Policy Pricing

  • Persistent inflationary pressures pared dovish guidance and pricing for the BoE and ECB, but Fed pricing is stuck.
  • Blocking a rare resumption of Fed easing looks unlikely, but history suggests cuts would be shallow and reversed.
  • Peer pressure is weak during a policy mistake. The BoE faces domestic problems that prevent further easing.
August 04, 2025
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HEM: One-Touch Easing

  • Payrolls revisions challenge the rolling resilience seen in most other hard data releases, but seem over-weighted.
  • Underlying price and wage inflation mostly track >2%, especially in the UK, which doesn’t need more rate cuts.
  • Policymakers biased to ease will deliver it on a batch of bad outcomes, even if the evidence proves fleeting.
July 07, 2025
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HEM: Rolling Resilience

  • Activity remains resilient, and labour markets are tight
  • Underlying price and wage inflation mostly track >2%
  • Doves assume this regime breaks, but it isn’t happening
  • Cuts can keep rolling later and may never materialise
  • Rate hikes are more historically usual after pausing
June 02, 2025
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HEM: Better Never Than Late

  • Companies are smoothing out volatile trade policies
  • Activity remains strong and labour markets are tight
  • Underlying price and wage inflation is still too high
  • Markets expect cuts to resume later, contrary to history
  • The risk of rate hikes in 2026 is widely underappreciated

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