Industrial Recession

  • Fedex is an early cyclical while TPG have their fingers in a lot of pies.
  • The industrial sector remains sluggish due to an inventory build-up and increased geopolitical trade tensions…US manufacturing PMI has been very weak this year. Given that our industrial production outlook is down 70 basis points from June currently at 0.9%.” Fedex CEO.
  • Certainly growth has slowed globally not going negative in terms of recessionary worries but we’re not seeing the sort of optimism and forward leaning behavior that we saw in our CEOs just a few years ago” – TPG Capital Co-CEO James Coulter, 23rd Sep, CNBC
  • h/t The Transcript

Help to Buy

  • It took the government 30 pages to come to the conclusion that was obvious from the start of the program.
  • Help to Buy was originally intended as a short-lived scheme but will now last for 10 years and consume over 8 times its original budget, yet the value achieved from its extension is uncertain.
  • Around three-fifths of buyers who took part in the scheme did not need its support to buy a property, and the large sums of money tied up could have been spent in different ways to address a wider set of housing priorities and focus more on those most in need.
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