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PREMIUM: Nine Jives

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Never Bigger

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It is Thursday evening, and the sounds in my ears are those I haven’t heard in a long while: countless cicadas, chirping on full blast. It’s a nice bit of incidental music while I compose some content for you good people.

Being Thursday, that means we can catch up on the liquidity data. The Antichrist Yellen handed out more free cash to her banking buddies, although the pace has slowed to virtually nothing.

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