Fed Speaks, “Market Says THAT’S a LIE!”

The Fed just came out and suggests they don’t plan on raising rates until 2024 at the earliest. The market seems to not believe them. Here’s the Market’s Fed Fund’s forecast as it progresses through 2021 vs. the Fed’s forecast.

The market shows a 100% chance the fund will raise rates by Jan 2023. In fact, you can see the Market has become more convinced rates will go up in 2023 over the course of the year.

The question is who is right. Historical expense says it’s the market. The Fed has some work to do to convince the market otherwise give they are forecasting 2.4% inflation this year.

Cathie Wood’s ARKK: 2 of Beta, None of Alpha

Of course, Cathie Wood and ARK Invest have been the talk of the markets after her big bet of Tesla and huge returns last year. The problem? Cathie has 0 alpha. Her fund is just mimics a super levered NASDAQ position.

Here is a graph comparing the returns of ARKK ETF to the returns of the QQQ (NASDAQ 100) with 2x leverage.

As you can see there is nothing special about ARKK. It just has some super volatile stock positions that make it really risky. However, it has 0% alpha. It’s just another boat up a river without skill.