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@mark_dow mark_dow

Mechanistic macro/monetary-policy debunker; central-bank plumbing over narratives

Posts reasoned, often contrarian threads on monetary policy

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Grade = how their written analysis reads (A best). Trader score = how their last-20 timestamped calls performed vs SPY.

Their picks, scored

Not yet in the scored-bets universe (fewer than 20 scoreable calls). Their last-14d mentions, direction-adjusted, have moved +1.0% since posting (mean over 1 mentions with price data).

Recent signals15receipts included
date (PT)tickerauthorsentwhat they saidsince thenreceipt
2026-10-14·@mark_dow·Says a 5% risk-free yield is especially attractive when equity returns may be negative.·
2026-10-12·@mark_dow·Suggests a 5.75% yield becomes attractive as equities decline, but the instrument is unspecified.·
2026-10-09·@mark_dow·Explains that bank lending, not central-bank printing, creates most money.·
2026-10-09·@mark_dow·States that bank lending accounts for most money creation.·
2026-10-09·@mark_dow·Sees a near-term bond bounce but persistent structural duration-selling headwinds.·
2026-10-08PLTR@mark_dow-0.10Author alleges politically timed equity purchases including Palantir, without transaction specifics.-1.0%
2026-10-08·@mark_dow·Sees ample U.S. fiscal space but opposes 6-7% deficits amid inflation absent a crisis or war.·
2026-10-08·@mark_dow·Challenges the traditional view that fiscal deficits crowd out private investment and raise Treasury risk premiums.·
2026-10-08·@mark_dow·Argues fiscal deficits mechanically increase private-sector wealth.·
2026-10-07·@mark_dow·Argues fiscal deficits are directly supporting private-sector income and corporate profits.·
2026-10-07·@mark_dow·Dismisses persistent bearish forecasts as repeatedly wrong and useless for market success.·
2026-10-06·@mark_dow·Mocks persistent bearishness and implicitly endorses the bull market.·
2026-10-05·@mark_dow·Author rejects debasement claims that fail to adjust prices for wage growth.·
2026-10-05·@mark_dow·Author counters a pessimistic claim by noting median nominal wages doubled over the period.·
2026-10-05·@mark_dow·Author presents a long-run partisan pattern in changes to U.S. fiscal deficits.·

Grade is our human read-worthiness rating; trader score is a rolling 20-bet hit-rate/alpha composite — different things, often disagreeing. “Since then” is direction-unaware in the table; the summary line above adjusts for which way they leaned.