How to Make Money With Global Macro

GLOBAL MACRO is the study of the interrelations between economic policy, asset classes, politics, and war. In his idiosyncratic book, Javier Gonzalez shows how these elements weave an intricate higher-dimensional puzzle that affect our portfolios and our lives.With his innovative approach, readers are likely to interpret events around them in a new light, realizing new interconnections.

"How to Make Money with Global Macro" is Kindleberger's "Manias, Panics, and Crashes" for speculators. (Kindleberger's book is rather academic).

Traders and investors could find useful gaining a thorough understanding of global macro, regardless of whether their strategy is value investing, trend following, discretionary global macro, or other. Knowing how global macro might be affecting price or might affect it in the near future is crucial to making an investment decision.

This book will likely help the reader:

• Comprehend the limits of global macro knowledge.

• Develop the core-periphery framework.

• Figure out the main drivers of global macro since 1971.

• Learn the effect of war on various asset classes.

• Obtain key insights into the relationship between commodities, inflation, productivity, and growth.

• Detect setups of higher than even probability of a stock market crash.

• Discard explanations of crises.

• Understand fallacies that some central bankers and economists use and how they affect global macro outcomes.

• Comprehend the Chairman Cycle.

• Deconstruct the IMF and the Fed.

• Appreciate the importance of U.S. dollar stability.

• Prepare for the Gray Swan.