Section 02 · Proprietary model

The Macro Twin

We built a digital twin of the world economy on Cognitive Fab's Polytrion platform. It models how rates, currencies, commodities, credit, and growth affect one another. Every week we run popular analysts' calls through it and see which ones hold up. We also track the themes driving markets, and which macro regime the world economy most resembles.

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Analysts we follow

Each week we score the latest calls from the analysts we follow against the twin. The bar shows how many of their claims the twin agrees with, half agrees with, or disagrees with, and how many it can't test yet.

Analysis of the week

Current themes

Macro regime

How the weekly evaluation works

A market call usually rests on a chain of cause and effect, such as "the Fed cuts, the dollar weakens, gold rallies." The twin lets us check whether that chain holds, starting from the current state of the economy.

Collect

We collect the week's calls from the analysts we follow: rates, the dollar, gold, oil, equities, and recession odds.

Translate

We turn each claim into a scenario for the twin: the drivers the analyst assumes, and the outcome they expect over their stated horizon.

Simulate

The twin starts from this week's market closes and runs each scenario hundreds of times, with and without the shock, on the same random draws. The difference is the effect of the shock alone.

Score

Each claim agrees, half agrees, disagrees, or is not testable yet, with the numbers behind it.