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Maybe you can see something in that noise, but I just plotted those and looked at their correlations, and it's garbage. Even looking at their sums, they have di
by kurthr 2y ago
Maybe you can see something in that noise, but I just plotted those and looked at their correlations, and it's garbage. Even looking at their sums, they have different slopes (over decades), all you can say is "number go up". The monthly correlation is junk, the yearly correlation of their sums is junk, the decade long optimally lagged correlation is junk (include 2008-2010 and it's worse). I had to look, because I wondered if there was some interesting coincidence, but there's not.
Now, if what you're trying to say is that the much larger (non M2) eurodollar currency correlates to long term global growth and inflation, yeah that's true. There is a trillion $ industry maintaining that called the banking system. But the idea that eggs, oil, lumber, or rent are well correlated is not even a funny joke. Gold and bitcoin are a bit different because they are so financialized, but I wouldn't go day trading them just based on Fed stats either.