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Pues yo discrepo. No creo que España sea un estado fallido. Que tiene problemas, si. Y graves, también. Pero no se ven grupos armados con Ak-47 por los montes, ni falla el suministro eléctrico, ni los municipales me piden 50 euros cuendo me paran con la moto...Y los hospitales están abiertos y hace poco menos de un año tuve una hija en uno de ellos y ni tan mal. Hace un tiempo unos "ciudadanos" asaltaron a tiros una instalación de gas en Argelia matando a varios y tuvieron secuestrados unos europeos dos años. Estos relataron que cuando más miedo pasaron fue cuando su grupo de pacíficos captores fue asaltado por otros ciudadanos con bazokas ante la pasividad de las autoridades... Vamos, eso sí es un estado fallido, lo nuestro son problemas de otra índole...
If one looks at the facts of rampant government money printing to monetize government debt, permanent deficit spending on an epic scale, debt to GDP north of 100% all to finance social projects such as the UK government paying 80% of furloughed employee salaries, with similar or even greater government interventions in nations such as Germany. We'll this begs the question, how can our economies still be labeled as capitalist?We are not living in capitalist nations, the slogans might be all about free market economies, capitalism, and theories preached of the boom bust cycle in the financial press and taught at universities, instead we tend to have the booms without the busts! Because we are NOT really living in capitalist economies!Then what are we living in?PERMANENT SOCIALIST BUBBLE ECONOMIES! NEW BUBBLES that are continuously being inflated just as the previous one bursts and starts to deflate. Which is why we NEVER GET DEFLATION! Instead we are permanently immersed in an exponential Inflation Mega-trend which confirms that investors should NOT PANIC when BUBBLES burst because the next one that is already being inflated and will be BIGGER than the one before!What we are experiencing is HYPER INFLATION in ASSET PRICES! Not all asset prices of course, it all depends on the degree to which the assets are leveraged to Inflation. Where the best leverage are those with inflating revenues i.e. corporations that actually produce something that is both limited in supply and high in demand and not easily replicated, in step our AI tech stocks!Our AI tech stocks are HYPER INFLATING IN PRICE! Which means that valuations will inflate far beyond that which investors consider to be reasonable and thus my expectations for instance for Google is to increase in price 6 fold before the next big tech bubble mania crunch transpires, and this will likely turn out to be an under estimation.Same goes for other assets such as housing i.e. unaffordable housing will continue to become LESS affordable, all whilst the academic economists and clueless journalists bang on about how the bull run in house prices are unsustainable due to not being affordable all whilst failing to see the big picture of the mega-trends at work, that of the exponential inflation mega-trend courtesy of central bank socialism.This also means where the 2020 US presidential election is concerned both Biden and Trump are SOCIALISTS! Not the Carl Marx variety for that theory is dead given the demand for workers is evaporating!The bottom line is that socialism of sorts is inevitable because AI and automation is going to make most workers obsolete, which means we could be looking at some sort of global revolution incorporating the likes of a universal basic income and literally an end to work for most people. This might seem far fetched today but that is the path we have been on for some time, as I don't think the masses are going to put up with relying on charity and food banks in ever increasing numbers due to no diminishing demand for their labour. So just as was the case with the Black Death, Covid is acting as an accelerant towards the making of a post capitalist work world i.e. the government will soon permanently start paying citizens effectively not to work.What does this mean for our tech stocks? We'll as I have already touched on several times over the years, at the very least they are going to be taxed on what today are largely untaxed profits so as to finance payments to the unemployable masses, and if the corporations don't comply, well socialism has a solution for that - NATIONALISATION.
Greek-Turkish tensions rise in crisis over eastern MediterraneanA Turkish ship set sail on Monday to carry out seismic surveys in the eastern Mediterranean, prompting Greece to issue a furious new demand for European Union sanctions on Ankara in a row over offshore exploration rights.
‘Absolutely incomprehensible’: A $2 billion hedge fund chief explains why investors may soon have to grapple with an across-the-board wipeout — and says a Great Depression-like meltdown isn’t out…Mark Yusko, the CEO and chief investment officer at Morgan Creek Capital Management, thinks the stock market is inching towards disaster.His forecast rests upon several variables including a highly concentrated market, stretched valuations, piles of corporate debt, a Federal Reserve that’s running out of ammo, IPO exuberance, and unrestrained investor sentiment.Yusko says “debt is the only thing that’s supporting” stocks, and thinks it will play a principal role in the impending unwind. “Could we get a repeat of 1930, 31? Yup, I think we could.”That’s what Mark Yusko, the CEO and chief investment officer at Morgan Creek Capital Management, said in a recent webinar, comparing today’s stock market environment to that of the Great Depression. For the uninitiated, the 1930-1931 time period that Yusko references coincided with a nearly 70% plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.“Bottom line is: The S&P is a money supply story,” said Yusko, whose firm manages close to $2 billion in assets. “We basically increased the money supply; that got stocks to go up, but now money supply growth can’t grow as fast as it was — that’s just math. The rate of change is not as high, and the Fed’s got to lower their balance sheet at some point.” For context, here’s a look at the explosive increase in the M2 money supply, which has been fueled by recent changes in Federal Reserve policy. Much like today, in the years leading up to the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve implemented stimulative policies. Those policies helped stimulate an asset bubble that would soon collapse.But that’s not where Yusko’s worries end. Far from it. Before the market’s pandemic-induced crash and its subsequent comeback, Yusko called for a lost decade for stocks.He now strings together his ominous forecast with an array of adversarial variables, including a highly concentrated stock market — one in which just a handful of stocks make up about 20% of the entire S&P 500 index — waning earnings, piles of corporate debt, sky-high valuations, IPO exuberance, and unrestrained investor sentiment. Of the bunch, one variable in particular really irks Yusko.“The biggest problem, though, for stocks, is debt,” he said. “Debt is the only thing that’s supporting.”Yusko notes that corporate earnings as of late have been flat to negative, buoyed primarily by increases in leverage.Here’s a look at the rise in the corporate-debt load, which has been powered in recent years by historically low borrowing costs. It’s an important aspect of Yusko’s big-picture outlook that we’ll revisit a little later on.To him, the idea that equity markets are being upheld solely by accommodative Federal Reserve policy and increases in debt-loads is cause for caution. It’s creating an environment in which “zombie companies” — businesses that can barley service their outstanding debt balance — proliferate.According to the Financial Times and The Leuthold Group, zombie companies now account for close to 15% of The Leuthold 3000, a proxy for the Russell 3000 index. The last time the reading was this high was in the midst of the tech bubble.When this notion is coupled with exuberant market sentiment, stretched valuations, extreme concentration, and IPO zeal, Yusko’s fearful forecast becomes all the more clear.Recently, Bank of America compared today’s equity market valuations to those of the past. Which ever way you divvy it up, the conclusion is the same: stocks are overvalued. And here’s a look at the level of concentration in the S&P 500. Increasingly, investors have had to rely upon a handful of issues to energize the entire index. If those issues stumble, the entire market is likely to follow. In Yusko’s mind, this confluence of variables is setting the stage for a meltdown where stocks can fall “a lot.” And he thinks he’s spotted the canary in the coal mine: the recent Snowflake IPO.Yusko says that “every bubble has a poster-child.” And to him, it’s Snowflake.“But the snow storm on Wall Street — I think this is the bubble,” he said. “This is just a wow … just wow. I mean, 227-times sales. Cisco peaked in 2000 at 226-times earnings. 227-times sales is absolutely incomprehensible.” Yusko’s anxieties are echoed by David Rosenberg, the famed economist and founder of Rosenberg Research. In a recent client note, Rosenberg referred to IPO action as a “frenzy” reminiscent of the dotcom bubble, adding, “As the first day of trading in Snowflake’s recent listing indicated (doubling its IPO price in one day!), the appetite for newly listed shares is insatiable at the moment.” With all of that to ruminate over, Yusko thinks that the problems in the stock market are just the tip of the iceberg. The way he sees it, the mounting corporate-debt load will serve as the principal factor when the rubber eventually meets the road. In his mind, investors will have to liquidate just about every asset under the sun to meet margin calls when the stock unwind begins. And that will cause an across-the-board meltdown.“And I think now what’s happening is we’re going to have another deleveraging,” he said. “And so, everything is going to go down. And the stuff that’s the most levered, will go down the hardest. And the people who have the most leverage will be forced to sell not what they want to sell, but what they have to sell, which means the most-liquid stuff.”
REITs' rough year
La cuestión es cómo salimos de ello. Ni es sencillo, ni es evidente por muy listos que nos creamos. Tampoco puede ser rápido porque supone, nada menos que reconstruir una hegemonía cultural alternativa y es imperativo hacerlo teniendo en cuenta tres adversarios.1. La Izquierda Postmarxista.2. Las grandes empresa cuyo negocio consiste en vender al Estado que les compra más cuando gobierna la Izquierda.3. Los poderes reales del Imperio uno de cuyos objetivos estratégicos es mantener en situación de debilidad y desunión a sus principales colonias.Al plantear esto a profesionales del mundo de la Estrategia rápidamente sugieren una línea alternativa: La colaboración para acelerar la destrucción del sistema preparándose para la reconstrucción.No estoy nada seguro de que ninguna de las dos funcione. Pero cualquier cambio Estructural positivo pasa por reconstruir la base cultural de la población. Forjar una nueva hegemonía cultural.Saludos
China Evergrande Seeks Up to $1.09 Billion in Share PlacementChina Evergrande Group is seeking as much as HK$8.43 billion ($1.09 billion) in a share placement to refinance existing debt, just a few weeks after China’s most indebted developer skirted a liquidity crisis.Evergrande is selling 490 million shares at HK$16.50 to HK$17.20 each, according to terms of the deal obtained by Bloomberg News. The price range represents a discount of 11.1% to 14.7% to its last closing price of HK$19.34 on Monday. Trading is closed in Hong Kong on Tuesday due to a typhoon.The placement comes after Evergrande’s billionaire chairman sealed a deal about two weeks ago with a group of investors that waived their right to force a $13 billion repayment by the property firm, avoiding a potential default that would have sent shock waves across financial markets in China and beyond.Evergrande shares have plunged 31% from a 15-month high reached in early July.Bank of America, Credit Suisse Group AG, Huatai International Ltd. and UBS Group AG are joint bookrunners for the placement.Evergrande’s dollar bonds edged up on the news, with its 8.9% notes due 2021 climbing to 96.5 cents on the dollar, the highest since Sept. 23.
German banks should prepare for wave of insolvencies, says Bundesbank(...) With part of a government moratorium on insolvencies now expired, the German central bank said corporate insolvencies could rise by more than 35% by March to more than 6,000 per quarter, a level not seen since 2013.“The severe economic downturn gives rise to fears that the number of corporate insolvencies will rise significantly in the coming quarters,” the Bundesbank said in its annual financial stability report, with the rise expected to be sharper in manufacturing than in services and construction.The impact on banks could be more contained as the worst hit hospitality industry accounts for just under 2% of German banks’ domestic loan books, compared to 23% for real estate and construction.The coronavirus pandemic could still spell trouble for Germany’s property markets after they have boomed for years.“An increase in unemployment and the number of household insolvencies could result in rising defaults on housing loans, while a rise in corporate insolvencies and a change in demand for office space could have a negative impact on the commercial real estate market,” the Bundesbank said.
El Gobierno elude los informes para acelerar la reforma del CGPJEl Ejecutivo opta por una proposición de ley de PSOE y Unidas Podemos, en lugar de un proyecto de ley que requeriría preguntar al Poder Judicial, Consejo Fiscal y Consejo de Estado
La vivienda cae de manera generalizada en toda España por primera vez desde 2016Tinsa ha detectado cómo la vivienda ha intensificado en el intensificado en el último mes el descenso en el precio medio, tras un mes de agosto caracterizado por la estabilidad(...) Los datos evidencian el inicio de un cambio de tendencia a consecuencia de la actual coyuntura de incertidumbre y debilitamiento de la demanda
El FMI mejora las previsiones de PIB de todas las economías desarrolladas salvo EspañaEl Fondo mejora en 2,3 puntos su previsión para los países desarrollados en 2020 con una mejora de 1,9 puntos para la eurozona. España se queda descolgada con una contracción del -12,8%