06/09/2017 - David Rosenberg: Thoughts On The Deflationary Headwinds Facing The US Economy, Federal Reserve Policy
“The big challenge is, if this [Boomers retiring] was happening 30 years ago, you could go to the government bond market and get 4, 5, 6%. You can’t do that today.”
“[Low Treasury yields] are why I don’t think the dividend theme is overdone. The equity market has become a more reliable generator of the reoccurring cash flows that the Boomers need than the government bond market has.”
06/07/2017 - Dr. Lacy Hunt: How Federal Reserve Monetary Policy Has Destabilized The Economy
Dr. Lacy Hunt’s explains how Quantitative Easing has undermined economic growth and affected financial stability while increasing downside risk in asset markets.
06/05/2017 - Gordon T Long: Global Central Banks Won’t Ever Decrease Balance Sheets?
Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviews Gordon T Long .. discussion on if Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve can continue to raise interest rates? .. Gordon says that the Fed could possibly do 2 more 25 basis point interest rate increases in the near future before something in the real economy or markets breaks, but that the Federal Reserve and other major global central banks cannot ever reduce their balance sheets without collapsing markets and the real economy .. Gordon highlights how the ECB now has a balance sheet over $4 trillion and so does Japan’s central bank, the Bank of Japan. Balance sheets for the PBOC and Bank of England are also massive .. Gordon thinks the Federal Reserve will have to start rapidly expanding its balance sheet in the near future rather than reducing their balance sheet .. Gordon also discusses shorting opportunities he is positioning his clients for.
06/01/2017 - Dr. Marc Faber: We Have A Bubble In Everything
“We have global debts as a percent of global GDP that is 30 to 40 percent higher than it was in 2007 .. All of us and I also own lots of assets, we’re going to lose 50 percent. Either the government will to take it through taxation or expropriation or there’ll be a deflation in asset prices that is surprising most people on the downside.”
05/31/2017 - McAlvany Commentary: U.S. GDP Growth Is Matching The 1930s Depression Decade
This week’s show:
-Normally Understated Gold Expert Jeff Christian Now Sees $1,900+ Gold Price
-Russian Ruse Being Played Politically In The U.S. To Distract From Real Issues
-U.S. GDP Growth 1.33% (10 Year Average) – Identical Match To The 1930s Depression Decade
05/30/2017 - Dr. Lacy Hunt: Indebtedness Cannot Be Solved By Taking On More Debt Erik Townsend Interviews Dr. Lacy Hunt
Dr. Lacy Hunt: Dr. Hunt explains, the US debt load will continue to climb and velocity will continue to slow – unless, of couse, “we get lucky.”
Hunt points to an excellent summary was published in 2010 by McKinsey Global Institute…
“They looked at 24 advanced economies that became extremely over-indebted. The indebtedness brought on a panic year, such as 1929, 1873, 2008, and they followed the process through to completion.
It’s a very long process, and what it shows is that an indebtedness problem cannot be solved by taking on additional debt.
McKinsey says specifically that multi-year sustained rise in the savings rate, what they term austerity, is needed to solve the problem, and of course, as we all know, in modern democracies, that option doesn’t seem to exist.
So, we try to continue to use what has failed, and while we get transitory improvement in economic activity, the longer-term trend is to weaker and weaker economic performance.”
05/28/2017 - Chris Martenson: Non-U.S. Banks Are Being Paid By The U.S. Central Bank
“The Fed is now paying interest on so-called ‘excess reserves’ held at the Fed. Those ‘excess reserves’ include a huge chunk of money held there by foreign banks who are only too happy to receive 1% on their holdings from the Fed given that their own central banks are paying 0%, or even negative rates. The money that the Fed pays these foreign banks is deducted from the amount remitted to the US Treasury at the end of each fiscal year. It’s this simple: foreign banks are being paid billions .. not one single person in the US got to vote for or approve of that action. Let me repeat that: billions and billions .. are being sent to boost the profits of foreign banks. And there’s not a single thing a voting citizen can do about it .. The decision to do this has been made unilaterally by unelected people for reasons they are under no obligation to either share or even have audited by the public. I wonder if Detroit wouldn’t mind getting several billion dollars to use however it wishes, courtesy of the Federal Reserve? Or the permaculture movement? Or jobs training programs?”
05/25/2017 - David Rosenberg: The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is Having A Profound Impact On Worker Anxiety “The yield curve is flat enough that if the Fed raises rates four more times, that’s all it takes. We probably will have a recession next year .. Politics, to me, unless it has a substantive impact on the earnings outlook or the economy, is just short-term noise .. What’s happening in terms of artificial, robotic intelligence and the shared economy… Right now, we’re going through the fourth Industrial Revolution, and it’s having a profound impact on worker anxiety .. How is it that we have 23 million Americans between 25 and 54, in their prime working age, that are out of the labor force? .. There’s some real structural things happening here that really transcend the need to cut taxes or what’s happening in terms of immigration policy.”
05/22/2017 - Russell Napier Fears The Dark Ages Of Government Allocating Resources And Capital To Run The Financial System
“The central banks try to manipulate markets to deliver growth, that’s effectively what they do by manipulating the price of money. If it doesn’t work, then what? Well, it’s pretty straightforward. Well, people the demand the politicians do something, people demand political action. But political action for those people who invest in financial markets means in some way reducing the par of financial markets, reducing the par of price. And yeah, I’ve speak to a lot of people about this. People fear inflation, they fear deflation. I fear something much bigger than that, that the political reaction to this is effectively to go through one of those periods again, what we’ll called ‘dark ages’, where we basically- the politicians can make it and then they run the financial system, or they begin to get directly involved with the allocation of resources and capital and credit and we go back into that, let’s call it the 1950s, 1960s, certainly a in a European context, that type of world is a world that the population demands because they look at central banks and say ‘well you haven’t been able to do this using so-called market forces, so let us use non-market forces.’ So, we’re really dealing with something very existential, here, that this will be a shock to the face and the ability of the market to deliver, not only in the ability of central bankers, but in the ability of the market to deliver in a decided move towards intervention in markets.”
Erik Townsend Interviews Russell Napier:
05/16/2017 - David Rosenberg: Investing Around The Latest Trump News? Don’t
05/10/2017 - Yra Harris And Rick Santelli: Lessons From Japan & Implications Of France’s Vote
“The global markets have been lulled into an eerie calm–think Minsky—as the recent Dutch and French elections have driven the anti-euro populists back underground. I caution that the economic situation still remains a very serious concern as President Draghi continues to build the ECB balance sheet in an effort to bail-out the fiscally weak states of Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and others. Italy is still a major concern as the non-performing loans plague its domestic banks. Add in that Italy has a debt-to-GDP ratio of 136% and it will take the entire EU to backstop the Italian financial system. I WARN ALL READERS THAT THE GLOBAL DEBT SITUATION IS FAR MORE PERILOUS THAN GLOBAL EQUITY MARKETS REFLECT .. The world’s central banks have been busy adding liquidity to the financial system, which provides the backdrop for a Minsky Moment for complacency in the realm of ZIRP creates instability below the surface. We do not fight markets and therefore have not been sellers of equity markets by battling the power of central bank liquidity creation. But as geopolitics calm markets will return to focus on the fragile financial situation created by mountains of debt.”
LINK HERE to Yra’s related blog post
05/04/2017 - Kyle Bass: “All Hell Is About To Break Loose” In China
Danielle Park: “Advised and led by their US trained finance types, China has followed the same hide-your-debts-playbook that brought down Enron, Worldcom and global financial markets in 2001-03, as well as Bear Stearns, Lehman and global markets again in 2007-09. The difference this time is the unprecedented scope and scale: China is a whole country, the world’s largest population and the second largest economy. The main benefactor of credit-fueled cash flows from the west over the past 15 years, China forgot that credit expansion is a finite cycle and spent like a drunken sailor throughout. Now it’s left holding a leverage on leverage bomb of unprecedented proportions, with sketchy debts oozing out of every crack and crevice .. We should expect that the liquidity and solvency problems there will be felt though highly connected world markets. This is a necessary part of the great cleanse and reset so needed to reboot asset prices and the economy. So, long-run positive, but short to medium term dangerous for capital.”
Kyle Bass: “Some of the longer-term assets aren’t doing very well .. As soon as liabilities have problems – meaning the depositors decide to not roll their holdings – all hell breaks loose.” .. The wealth management products, or WMPs, have swelled to $4 trillion in assets in the last few years, he says., on a $34 trillion banking system .. “Think about this – in the US, our asset-liability mismatch at the peak of our subprime greatness was around 2%! … China’s mismatch is more than 10% of the system.”
05/01/2017 - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: What Is Trump Going To Do When Inflation Hits
Greenspan thinks U.S. President Donald Trump has a math problem with his budget .. Greenspan says that interest rates will have to rise because of very large budget deficits if big programs are not cut .. Interest rates and inflation will go up right along with it.
04/28/2017 - David Rosenberg: The Bond Market Is Reacting To The Facts On The Ground The stock market is at a critical juncture, and it may be time reduce risk, strategist David Rosenberg says .. He predicts economic growth will slow even more as the Federal Reserve resumes its tightening policy.
“The reckoning will be which market has the story right: Is it the stock market that is de facto pricing in double-digit earnings growth or is it the Treasury market with the 10-year yield at 2.3 percent? .. The bond market is really pricing in a completely different nominal GDP growth world .. The bond market is actually reacting to the facts on the ground. The facts on the ground are this: Year-over-year growth on a nominal GDP cycle already peaked at 4.9 percent. We have never before in the post-World War II period ever have seen year over year nominal GDP growth peak below 5 percent. That happened two years ago.”
04/28/2017 - Dr. Albert Friedberg: Bullish On Risk Assets, Federal Reserve Will Only Shrink Its Balance Sheet When It Sees Accelerating Inflation
LINK HERE to the Quarterly Conference Call – MP3 Podcast
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From the Quarterly Report
“In sum, we see a global expansion gathering strength and being liberally financed by politicians, politically influenced bankers and academics with little feel for reality. It is these academics who are now floating the idea of raising the inflation target to 4% from 2% on the pretext that it will be easier to achieve negative real rates without having to breach the zero-interestrate bound — the next time they are called on to save the world!
There is good reason to believe, then, that we are still early, that the bull is proceeding as it always has, confounding the great majority of experts, defying the well-armed but uncritical skeptics and taking its sweet time. So what is needed is patience (don’t switch lanes — you will always regret it), blindness and deafness (to experts’ concern about valuations, presumed political gridlock, Brexit, etc.) and discrimination (persist with active managers, for their time has come).”
LINK HERE to the latest Friedberg Quarterly Report
04/21/2017 - Alan Greenspan: Stagflation Is Here And Rising, “It’s A Fiscal Issue” Former Fed Alan Greenspan discusses U.S. entitlements growing 9% a year and that no one wants to attack that. On Stagnation he says we have a slow growth economy where you end up with inflation and slow growth just like the 70s.
04/21/2017 - Adam Andrzejewski: The Open-Government Movement – How Posting All Public Spending Online Can Transform U.S. Politics
“Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman,” wrote Louis Brandeis in 1914. Today, the Freedom of Information Act and internet make it possible to post online all spending at the federal, state, and local levels. This kind of radical transparency can transform U.S. politics.
Since 2011, American Transparency, a nonprofit, has built and operated OpenTheBooks.com, the largest private repository of U.S. public-sector spending. The ultimate goal: post “every dime, online, in real time.” To date, OpenTheBooks.com has captured 3.5 billion government-spending records, including nearly all disclosed federal government spending since 2000; 48 of 50 state checkbooks; and expenditures in 60,000 localities across America.
04/05/2017 - McAlvany Weekly: Central Bankers Cannot Create Perpetual Growth
Bullish Sentiment hits highest level on March 1st…So did the stock market. The repeating and painful Errors of Optimism. TESLA market cap exceeds FORD & has yet to turn a profit .. New studies showing one dollar of new debt giving one dollar less of GDP growth.
04/04/2017 - Former Federal Reserve Advisor Danielle DiMartino Booth On The Adverse Effects Of Monetary Policy On Savers
04/04/2017 - GMO’s Jeremy Grantham: Stocks “Decently Different This Time”
Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of Boston investment firm GMO, doesn’t expect valuations to drop back to normal levels for two decades. But he is keeping cash on hand to take advantage of any dip, which he says would need to be 15-20% to act.
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