That Don’t Repress Me Much
By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank
US equity indices gained yesterday as oil prices pulled back from recent highs and bond yields followed suit. The S&P 500 closed 0.46% higher while the Dow Jones was up 0.56% and the NASDAQ Composite Index lifted 0.45%. The Bank of Canada kept rates at a low, low 2.25% yesterday for a seventh-consecutive meeting. Governor Tiff Macklem struck a more hawkish tone, but RaboResearch’s Christian Lawrence and Molly Schwartz the risk of a new age of financial repression is rising” while the Times yesterday claimed that the “Dutch central bank shifts more than 78 tonnes of its bullion reserves from New York to London due to a perceived increase in geopolitical risk.
Policy rates were set miles below nominal GDP growth rates throughout the 2010s as a narrow definition of inflation remained blind to enormous asset price inflation, banks were told that they must buy greater quantities of government paper, quantitative easing was normalized, pension funds have increasingly been directed to invest more of members’ savings according to national priorities rather than blindly pursuing maximum returns. Now we see the US Treasury engaging in exactly the sort of behavior that China is accused of, which is kind of the point: the US believes it is fighting fire with fire by copying the Chinese neo-mercantilist model.
At the crux of this shift is the imperative to eliminate structural trade imbalances to rebuild American production (July US factory order figures reported yesterday were strong), because production underpins national security. Perhaps what is not widely appreciated is that if you are re-orienting your economy away from consumption, and especially consumption of artificially cheap imports with your artificially-strong dollar, you are going to have to do less consuming. In the absence of explosive productivity growth, the American plan is for lower living standards.
No wonder the President is saying that failure to embrace AI will make countries “backward and poor” while the Treasury Secretary tells data center operators that they need to do a much better job of securing their social license.
Tyler Durden Thu, 09/03/2026 – 11:20
Source: https://freedombunker.com/2026/09/03/that-dont-repress-me-much/
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