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• The Weekly Quill — Risking Risk-Free Status — The U.S. Crosses into No Man’s Land
• The Weekly Quill — Fighting the Last War — The Modern Financial Warfare Reset
• Crude War Games
• The Weekly Quill — Just in Case Inventory 101
• The Weekly Quill — A Middle Kingdom Masquerade
• The Weekly Quill — Corporate America Pulls a Garbo
• The Weekly Quill — Playing Offense to the Fed’s Defense
• The Weekly Quill — China, CRE and Central Banks
• The Weekly Quill — Chasing Inflation Rainbows — The Fed is Denied its ‘Pot of Gold’
• The Weekly Quill — Investors Storm the Castle
• The Weekly Quill — Paging Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
• The Weekly Quill — The Cinderella Bid
• The Weekly Quill — Game of Drones
• The Weekly Quill — Silver & Gold — Reflections on the Future of the European Union
• The Weekly Quill — From Passive to Pretentious – The Vanity of Debating Stock vs. Flows into Stocks
• The Weekly Quill — Pomp & Feigned Circumstance — China Contrives a Commodities Calamity
• The Weekly Quill — The Nuclear Optionality
• The Weekly Quill — Mistaken Identity – U.S. CRE: The Post-QE Symbiosis of Office & Multifamily
• The Weekly Quill — The Quill Intelligence Interview Series: Tobias Levkovich
• The Weekly Quill — China’s Triple Trick Play & Playoff Prospects
• Negotiating When There’s Nothing to Lose
• Pick your Poison: Buy the Lie or Sell the Truth
• The Weekly Quill — Nightmare on C-Street —  The U.S. Auto Sector Driving on Fumes
• The Weekly Quill — The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets
• The Weekly Quill — ‘M’ is for “Mousseau” & “Munis”
• The Weekly Quill — Superpower Showdown
• The Weekly Quill — The Great Confiscation – Society, Economics & Modern-Day Slumlords
• The Weekly Quill — Redeclaring Independence
• The Weekly Quill — A Star-Spangled Showdown – The 2011 Debt Ceiling Redux
• The Weekly Quill — The Second Deadly Sinners
• The Weekly Quill — De-Fi-ANCE Christopher Cole: Financial Nihilism Fulfilled
• The Weekly Quill — The Resource Race
• Global Balance Sheet Recession Risk Rising
• The Weekly Quill — David’s Goliath Cometh
• The Weekly Quill — Pensions Triple Down — Retirees Take One More Step Out On the Risk Spectrum
• The Weekly Quill — The Powell Pressure Presser
• The Weekly Quill — From Hollywood to Bollywood – The World’s Fifth Largest Economy Wavers
• The Weekly Quill – The Hope Diamond in the Rough
• The Weekly Quill — China Fools Day
• The Weekly Quill — Gone to Extremes – The Tail Risk in the Data
• The Weekly Quill — Housing Sage Ivy Zelman: From Bubble to Trouble
• The Weekly Quill — Prosperity for Hire
• The Weekly Quill — The Curve Burns at Both Ends
• The Weekly Quill — Emerging Targets — Rising U.S. Rates’ Ripple Effect
• The Weekly Quill — Fighting the Wrong War on Two Fronts
• The Weekly Quill — The Imperfect Storm – The Upshot of an Inflation Scare
• The Weekly Quill — The Sins of the Father – Day Traders’ Children Come of Age
• The Weekly Quill — Productivity Paralyzed
• The Weekly Quill — The Quill Intelligence Interview Series — Peter Atwater on the Limits of ‘K’
• The Weekly Quill — Starting Points Matter – The Quill Intelligence 2021 Outlook
• The Weekly Quill — The Consequences of the Great Abdication, Politics & Economics Collide in America’s K-Economy
• The Weekly Quill — A Quill Intelligence Christmas Gift in Triplicate
• The Weekly Quill — First, Do Harm — The Fed’s Cure Worsens the Disease
• Saving Private America
• The Weekly Quill — Big Brother in the Bank Account
• The Weekly Quill — Indexed to the Hilt with Logica Funds Mike Green
• The Weekly Quill — Continental COVID Coverup – European Authorities Veer from Parsimony to Profligacy
• The Weekly Quill — Declaring War Against COVID-19 – Deploying U.S Stimulus Spending to Rebuild America
• Weekly Quill — Missing the Boat – Politics Test the Fed’s Limits
• The Weekly Quill — Clemency Before the Crime
• The Weekly Quill — The Phoenix Fails to Rise
• The Weekly Quill — The Domino Theory – The Post-Election Economic Outlook
• The Weekly Quill — America as Number One: The “Convenient” Japanification Narrative
• The Weekly Quill — Constitution Day
• The Weekly Quill – Mixed Metals Messages — Copper Contradictions & Steel Subterfuge
• The Quiet Recession — Permanence Calmly Becomes the Norm in the U.S. Job Market
• U.S. Housing Shakes the Left Hand of Darkness — Lending in a Vacuum Feeds White Hot Market
• The Silent Killer — The Path to Negative Treasury Yields
• Trickle Down Liquidation — Small Businesses Bear the Brunt of Pandemic Fallout
• Leveraged Sell Out — Private Equity & Restaurants’ Decline
• The Weekly Quill — The Spartan of Central Banking
• QI’s Virtual Road Trip — Driving Past the Third Quarter Rebound
• Policing Pensions — Pension Underfunding Threatens to Widen the Inequality Divide
• The Weekly Quill — United We Stand — The U.S. Election & The Price of Division
• The Weekly Quill — The Fed: An Allegory of Want
• The Weekly Quill — South America: No Way Out – The Coronacrisis Forces Impossible Decisions
• The Weekly Quill — The Five-Minute Recession – Testing the Best-Case Scenario
• Imperialism Interrupted — China Gets Snared in its Debt Trap Diplomacy
• The Weekly Quill — Businesses Left Behind
• The Weekly Quill — Coronacrisis in Mexico
• The Weekly Quill — The Express Elevator to Bygone Days
• The Weekly Quill — Coming of Age Amidst COVID-19
• The Weekly Quill — Cutting to the Chase
• Will the Federal Reserve Sell its Soul?
• The Lesser of Two Upheavals — The Fate of the U.S. Stock Market
• Boomers Selling Sooner — U.S. Housing Market Outlook
• States on the Take – COVID-19 & Municipal Finance
• The Weekly Quill — The Turning of the U.S. Labor Market
• The Weekly Quill — The Sleeping Giant
• Beware the Ides of March?
• The Weekly Quill — The Black Box of Chinese Credit
• Which Consumer is Strong?
• The Fed Faces a Housing Conundrum
• Shanghaied in Shanghai — Commodities Stricken by Coronavirus
• China Through the Looking Glass
• Paving the Path of Most Resistance — The Fed Seeks to Salvage a Soft Landing
• Let Them Share Space! American Office Property in 2020
• INFLATION DEFLATION – Central Banks’ Chimera Distorts Policy
• Comparing Amazons to Oranges
• Lower Mortgage Rates Aren’t Boosting U.S. Housing
• Modern Meritocracy Theory
• A Deluge of Dollars
• The European Central Bank: Fighting a War on Two Fronts
• The Tenthouse Suite — The American Housing Divide
• The Elephant on the Exchange — Repudiating the Earnings Recession
• Will the Fed Shock & Pause?
• The Sino-Syndicate
• The Fed Can’t Help Housing or Autos at This Point
• In Plain View — Probable Cause in the Credit Markets
• Friendly Fire — The Trade War’s First Casualties
• Quill’s Quintessential Quest — The Neverending Search for the Holy Grail of Economics
• A Room with a Due — A Glut of Units to Let Hits Lodging & Multifamily
• The Powell Punt — Markets Score Winning Points to Defeat Fed
• To Protect and to Herd — Fading the Consensus — The Quill 2019 Outlook
• Stress Testing the Fed — Passing the Liquidity Baton
• The Nothing Beyond — Australia: The Final Frontier of Economic Civility
• Messing with Texas
• High Earners Are Making the Fed’s Job More Difficult
• From Prussia with Dove — The ECB’s Mettle Put to the Test
• Beating the ‘BBB’ Dead Horse — Financial Instability Rises to the Fore
• Not Home Alone — The Bunking-Up of America
• LinkedIn Top Voices 2018: Economy & Finance
• Famous Last Words — Handicapping the Next Economic Tragedy
• Fed’s Rosy Outlook Snubs History
• Pressing Perfection’s Bounds — The Quest for Value in Recoupling Markets
• The Rats Pack It In — The Heisting of Public Pensions
• Why Main Street Should Worry About Wall Street’s Bond Selloff
• Jonesing for Normality — The Economy Goes Off Script
• A Private Affair — Shadow Bankers Ascend to Power
• Fulfilling the Forecast — The Chimera of Nirvana in Price Controls
• Misleading by Example — Foiling the Figment of Forward Guidance
• The Inefficient Frontier — The Buck Stops Nowhere
• Fed’s Inflation Focus Needs a Tuneup
• Of False Prophets and Promises — From Subprime to “Investment Grade”
• Angels Manning Heaven’s Trading Floors
• The Liquidity Paradox — Markets at Risk of Spontaneous Combustion
• The Cubicle Cult and Other “Endangered” Office Species
• Do Central Bankers Have the Capacity to Apologize?
• Student Loans Are Starting to Bite the Economy
• Embracing the Unexpected — The Ancient Art of Conceiving Systemic Risk
• The QI of FX — China Holds the ‘7’ Line on its Currency
• A Moment with Danielle DiMartino Booth — The American Dreams Show with Alan Olsen
• What the GDP Report Won’t Tell You About the Economy
• Controversial Real Estate — Is CRE Scaling New Heights or Structurally Unsound?
• State Pensions to Uncle Sam: “Gone to Texas” and Other Tall Tales
• Tales of Bonds & Bondage
• The State of Jobless Claims in America: One Nation, Most Divisible
• Leveraged Lyrics Fall on Deaf Ears — Are U.S. Corporations as Strong as Jay Powell Contends?
• The Mystery of John Williams at the New York Fed
• Strong Labor Market? Dig a Bit Deeper
• Fees High, Foes Dumb — Has Amazon Become Too Big to Slight?
• Brussels Bound by Way of Tokyo — Will Europe Succumb to Recession Before Interest Rates are Positive?
• Something’s Amiss in the U.S. Jobs Market
• A Beautiful Releveraging? — The Devil Advocates for a Debt Jubilee
• The Great Contagion
• Bunsen Burnout & Vexing Vulnerabilities — When Tell Tale Economic Signals Flash Falsities
• Public Pensions & the Trolley Problem — The Impossibly Immoral Choices the Future Holds
• The Migration of the Medallions — Leadership, Leniency and Leaks at the NY Fed
• When K.I.S.S. Fails – Private Equity on the Razor’s Edge
• The Bounty Hunter and the Fugitive Collateral — The Flight Risk in the Corporate Bond Market
• Powell & Goliath – Riding Out the Jay Curve
• Divine Introspection — Crafting the Clearest Crystal Ball
• REAL ESTATE ROULETTE — Does the House Always Win?
• Of Latvian Laundry & Italian Idolatry — And Other European Tales from the Crypt
• CLEAR & PRESENT DANGER
• The Dark Side of the Boon
• The Unbearable Lightness of Trading
• RED GOLD: Does China Aim to Dethrone the Dollar?
• SOCCER MONSTERS — The Lamborghini in the Carpool Lane
• POWELL ON POWELL — A Deep Dive into 2012’s FOMC Transcripts
• THE GREAT RECOVERY — Unambiguous Clarity Over the Horizon
• AGAINST ALL ODDS — An Open Letter to a Strong Leader
• Money Strong Top Ten 2017 — Make That Top 11 #NeverForget
• A THEOLOGICAL TIPSTER — A Wall Street Story by Edwin Lefèvre
• PLAYING WITH AETHER – Investors Reach for the Celestials
• The Job Mob – The Societal Impact of the Next Downturn
• CRYPTIC CURRENCY — From Blockchain to Daisy Chain and Beyond
• Atlas Stumbles — Inequality and Macroeconomics at a Crossroads
• Congestion Indigestion – The Future of the Restaurant Industry in America
• Destination Reformation — The Dawn of a New Era in Central Banking
• Jay Powell – A Quiet Leader
• Finding Neom: The Future of Black Gold
• Dim Sums: A Fork in the Silk Road
• Pricing in Perfection: Three out of Three?
• The Credit Markets: Casting Angels from Crowded Celestials
• Retirement in America: The Rise of the Velvet Rope
• Investing Now & Then: A Panoply of Parallels
• Channeling Safire: “If it’s broke, fix it.”
• The Big Boys of Summer
• Angels Manning Heaven’s Trading Floors
•  In Case You Missed It— September 8, 2017
• “Okay, Houston, we’ve had an opportunity here.”
• The Bonfire of the Vulgarities
• The Currency Wars Two Years On: The Shanghai Discord
• Commercial Real Estate: Sasquatch Syndrome
• In Case You Missed It — 8.11.17
• Economics 101: Divining a New Mouse Trap
• In Case You Missed It — August 4, 2017
• The Writing on the Wall
• In Case You Missed It — July 28, 2017
• The Greater Moderation
• The Time Has Come…
• The Smell of Dry Paint in the Morning
• In Case You Missed It — July 15, 2017
• Will Corporate Bonds Cross Over?
• In Case You Missed It — July 10, 2017
• Central Banks to Investors: “I Know Nothing!”
• Will US Drillers Drive Oil Prices into the Ground?
• In Case You Missed It — June 23, 2017
• Woman on Fire
• Housing in America: Movin’ on Up
• The U.K. Election: An Outsider Looking In
• The Demographic Divide: A Police State of Mind
• Beware of Central Bankers Bearing Gifts
• The Running of the Bulls’ Mouths
• In Case You Missed It — May 12, 2017
• Pension Tension, Part 2: Don’t California My Texas!
• Pension Tension: Uncle Sam Walking Tightrope into the Unknown
• Ode to Investors: Super Size Me!
• America’s Gilded Age 2: On the Rocks
• If an electorate falls in the forest, is their voice heard?
• Is the Fed’s Balance Sheet Headed for the Crapper?
• Retailing in America: Game Theory in Reverse
• In Case You Missed It — March 24, 2017
• The American Dream: An Endangered Ethos
• The Corporate Bond Market: The Start of the Matter
• The Buford T. Justice Job Market
• The Five-Tool Bond Market
• UpEnding the Fed: The Administration Redemption
• What Does it Take to Launch a Bestselling Book?
• Fed Up: Culture Shock
• Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand
• In Case You Missed It
• Federal Reserve Policy: The Cash Menagerie
• Blinding Flash of the Obvious
• Bloomberg: Heed the Fed’s Balance Sheet Banter
• Retailing in America: Bricks & Torture
• With Great Pride, I Give You Fed Up
• The Corporate Bond Market: Binge-Borrowing
• The Labor Market: The End of the Innocence?
• Bloomberg: FEDERAL RESERVE — Rebuild the Fed From the Bottom Up
• The Art of Trade Warfare
• Money Strong Top 10
• Year End Outlook: Will Investors Get Hustled by the Pros in 2017?
• The Priceless Parable of Price Discovery
• The Federal Reserve and the Destruction of the American Dream
• Will Public Pensions be Trump’s Biggest Challenge?
• Commercial Real Estate: From Towers of Gold to Pillars of Salt
• The Labor Market Working Nine to Five
• The French Connection
• Federal Reserve Meeting Minutes: Stronger than Oak
• Inflation 101: Prep School for Preppers
• Exiting the Winter of Our Discontent
• The Federal Reserve to Pensions: Suspend Disbelief Indefinitely
• Global Trade: Fading to Black
• Global Debt Investors: The Silence of the Lambs
• The Beer Goggles Stock Market 
• JOBS: Our National Treasure
• The Overlords of Finance
• Passive Investors Unite: We Blind Mice
• Note to Joe Q Public on Fed Policy: Promise in September, Deliver in December
• U.S. Household Finances – It Only Looks Like the Good Life
• Angels Manning Heaven’s Trading Floors
• Commercial Real Estate: The King Kong of Category Killers
• The Dirty Harry Jobs Report
• The U.S. Economy: Bad Moon Rising
• A New Monetary Policy Framework? Old Faithful Meets the ‘New Normal’
• In a Fed Meeting Minute, Everything Can Change
• The U.S. Consumer: Are the Jetsons’ Jets Still On?
• Dear Job Market, Take This Indicator and Shove It!
• The 50 Altered States of American Housing
• The Bond Market: Beware of Junkyard Dogs
• Commercial Real Estate Checks into the Heartbreak Hotel
• Norma Rae Meets Her Match
• The Italian Job
• The British Referendum and the Long Arm of the Lawless
• The Vanity of Central Bankers and the Common Sense Rule
• FedSpeak: Lost in Translation
• Venezuela Burning
• Quantitative Easing and the Corruption of Corporate America
• Retailing in America: Valley Girl (Interrupted)
• Central Banks and the Rise of Extremism
• Drain No More: Fed Funds R.I.P
• Central Bankers to the Masses: “Let Them Eat Rate!”
• Distress Testing the Efficient Frontier
• Has the Fed Bankrupted the Nation?
• Towers of Dabble
• Are America’s Workers Playing Hard to Get?
• The Smell of Dryer Powder in the Morning
• Is America’s Economy Shooting Blanks?
• Self FOOL-filling Prophesies
• An Embarrassment of Stitches
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Debt!
• The Shanghai Expressionless
• MacGyver Money
• The Turn of the Screwflation
• Empathy for the Devil
• January Retail Sales: Let Them Eat Bacon!
• Midnight in the Garden of Fallen Angels
• The January Jobs Report Does Not Ensure a March Rate Hike
• Creative Indestruction
• Note to the FOMC: Google ‘Nuance’
• Paying the Pied Piper of Passivity
• The Sweathogs of Sovereigns?
• Locked and Not Loaded
• Grandma Got Run Over by a Rate Hike
• Bottoms-Down Forecasting
• A Texan in King Arthur’s Court
• Mind the Cap
• The Fed Awakens
• Desperately Seeking Equities in Dallas
• Nerf Wars
• A Contrarian Gives Thanks
• Last Sighting at the Machus Red Fox
• An Open Letter to the Debate Team
• Night Diving
• Shining a Light on the Fed, Danielle DiMartino Booth in DCEO Magazine
• P = qe² (?)
• Whistling Past the Junkyard
• PEAK 2 PEAK
• Fear Factor
• Tiny Bubbles
• Angels Manning Heaven’s Trading Floors
• Illiquid Plumber
• Help Wanted: Fearless & Grounded Central Banker
• Trumped Towers
• Sunset at the Bakken Club
• Drafting the Dodge – A Mother’s Battle Plan to Combat the Currency Wars
• You do the Math
• You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
• Ladies Don’t Dance on Graves
• The Seven Dollar Cantaloupe
• What if Charlie Munger is Right?
• The Smell of Dry Powder in the Morning
• Rational Exuberance?
• The Sin of Commission
• The Great Abdication