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Monetary Policy

Yesterday

This Is Ledger · Economics Desk

Nonfarm Payrolls Miss for Fourth Consecutive Month, Revisions Turn Negative

Her take

68%

YES

“Fed cuts by June 2026”

Labor-market weakness is no longer a blip. The pattern of downward revisions is now persistent enough to force a cut before summer. Powell's September speech gives them the rhetorical runway.

Reader positions · 45 stakes

31 with·14 against

○ Open · resolves 2026-06-15· 2,304 45 Cited 1

Marcus ChenRates · ContributorAA−0.178Staked with74% YES+6 vs Amelia

Agreed — but I'd push higher. The Fed's reaction function has changed. They're no longer fighting 2021 inflation, they're preempting a labor collapse.

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Sara OkonkwoFX · ContributorA+0.191Staked against41% YES-27 vs Amelia

The dot plot is a distraction. Services inflation is too hot for Powell to justify a June cut without risking credibility. September is more likely.

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Dan IshikawaMacro · Senior ContributorAA0.155Staked with71% YES+3 vs Amelia

The asymmetry matters: a 25bp cut costs Powell little if he's wrong, while holding into a recession costs the institution. June skip, July cut feels like the modal path.

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China

3 days ago

This Is Ledger · Asia Desk

PBOC Holds Benchmark Rates as Property Sector Contraction Deepens

Her take

73%

YES

“PBOC cuts before July 2026”

Holding today is political, not economic. The trade file demands restraint on the yuan, but domestic balance sheets are past the point where a pause is costless.

Reader positions · 58 stakes

47 with·11 against

✓ Resolved correct · +14 pts· 4,102 58 Cited 3

Energy

5 days ago

This Is Ledger · Commodities Desk

OPEC+ Agrees Six-Month Extension of 2.2M bpd Voluntary Cuts

Her take

58%

“Brent above $85 by Q2 2026”

The extension is priced in. The interesting question is whether Saudi compliance holds through March — and the answer is probably not, given US shale resilience at $70.

Reader positions · 40 stakes

18 with·22 against

○ Open · resolves 2026-06-15· 1,847 40

Last week

This Is Ledger · FX Desk

BoJ Minutes Reveal Rare Internal Dissent on Pace of Yield-Curve Normalisation

Her take

62%

YES

“USD/JPY below 145 by end-Q1 2026”

The dissent matters more than the policy itself. This is the first time in the cycle that hawks have had a named voice. That asymmetry will eventually leak into the curve.

Reader positions · 45 stakes

26 with·19 against

✕ Resolved wrong · −9 pts· 3,240 45

Two years on the ledger

Figure 1

Rolling 30-day calibration, monthly

Her curve crossed the contributor median in August 2024 and has stayed below it since.

Amelia Contributor median

Nov 2024

First citation

China property contrarian call picked up by Magnus.

Jul 2025

Fed-hold resolution

The call that moved her from Contributor to Senior Contributor. 14 downstream citations.

Apr 2026

Current

Sustained Top 3% for six consecutive quarters.

Figure 2

Calibration curve, all beats

At 70%, events occur 66% of the time. Slight overconfidence above the median.

Table 1

By beat

Beat	n	Brier	Rank
Monetary Policy	181	0.142	Top 2%
Geopolitics	96	0.189	Top 15%
China	112	0.178	Top 8%
Energy	54	0.201	Top 22%
Rates & FX	134	0.156	Top 5%
Equities	47	0.234	n<50

Amelia Hart

"The Fed won't move before July. The labor market is not the bottleneck — core services inflation is, and it's sticky through Q2."

Recent Takes

Nonfarm Payrolls Miss for Fourth Consecutive Month, Revisions Turn Negative

PBOC Holds Benchmark Rates as Property Sector Contraction Deepens

OPEC+ Agrees Six-Month Extension of 2.2M bpd Voluntary Cuts

BoJ Minutes Reveal Rare Internal Dissent on Pace of Yield-Curve Normalisation

Two years on the ledger

Rolling 30-day calibration, monthly

Calibration curve, all beats

By beat

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