domingo, 16 de septiembre de 2018

Sun SEP 16 18 SIT EC y POL part 2



Sun  SEP 16 18  SIT EC y POL  part 2
ND denounce Global-neoliberal debacle y propone State-Social + Capit-compet in Econ


ZERO HEDGE  ECONOMICS
Neoliberal globalization is over. Financiers know it, they documented with graphics


"Over the past decade, in the wake of the 2008-09 debt crisis, the impossible has happened.  The sickness of too much debt has been seemingly cured with massive dosages of even more debt. .."

Misadventures and Mishaps
Over the past decade, in the wake of the 2008-09 debt crisis, the impossible has happened.  The sickness of too much debt has been seemingly cured with massive dosages of even more debt.  This, no doubt, is evidence that there are wonders and miracles above and beyond 24-hour home deliveries of Taco Bell via Door Dash.
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The fake money system – a system centered on debt based legal tender and centrally fabricated interest rates – produces booms and busts of greater extremes with each progression of the business cycle.  This century alone we’ve experienced two iterations of these boom and bust scenarios.  First the dotcom bubble and bust.  Then the housing boom and crash.

Make no mistake, these booms and busts were anything but garden variety gyrations of the business cycle.  In fact, the Federal Reserve’s finger prints are all over them.  The booms originated from Fed monetary policy misadventures.  The busts were triggered by Fed monetary policy mishaps.

Anatomy of a Mishap
Presently, we are closing in on a decade’s long economic boom and bull market in stocks. This boom, like the boom of the mid-2000s, advanced during an extended period of monetary policy misadventures. This was the ZIRP and QE misadventure from 2009 through 2015, which distorted financial markets and disfigured the economy.

The last several years of this boom and bull market, however, have been a monetary policy transition period. First the Fed tapered back QE. Then the Fed began ever so slightly reducing its balance sheet and raising the federal funds rate.
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The crossover into the monetary policy mishap stage is never apparent until well after the fact.  In truth, the crossover may have already happened… and we just don’t know it.  The mishap will come as a surprise.

Then Fed Chair Powell, just as Bernanke did at the onset of the subprime mortgage meltdown, will step forward with calming confidence and declare the sickness to be contained.  But the reassurance will be short lived.  Because the contagion will have already spread to the center of the financial system.

Then, to Wall Street’s astonishment, a major financial institution will collapse – like Lehman Brothers a decade ago – and the flow of credit will be reduced to that of cold molasses.  After that, things will really get out of hand…

Honest Work for Dishonest Pay

One trio of bad ideas, which was burped into the atmosphere last weekend by former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard, is for the Fed to combat the next recession by buying stocks, financing the deficit, and directly purchasing goods.  Surely, Blanchard’s a clever fellow.  He’s even a Professor of Economics emeritus at MIT.

Yet, predictably, Blanchard didn’t mention that the Fed would need to create money from thin air so that it could buy stocks, loan it to the government, and go on its massive spending spree.  Perhaps these massive helicopter money drops would prevent asset prices from deflating.  But they would also destroy any remaining semblance of market-derived pricing and perpetuate an upside-down economy.

Blanchard also didn’t mention that these actions would transfer the ownership of publicly traded companies, and future tax payer labors, to the Fed.  Conceivably, there are infinitely many places where this could all lead – though we don’t suspect any of them would be very appealing.

One direction Blanchard’s plan would take us is to a place where taxpayers and the company’s they work for would be reduced to milk cows not for the federal government… but for private bankers.  This, in turn, would complete the central banker’s long desired wealth extraction scheme.

Still, that doesn’t mean things would be all bad. Here at the Economic Prism we are eternal optimists. We see the glass half full. We make lemonade with our lemons. When we spill salt, we throw a pinch over our left shoulder and right into the devil’s eyes.

Moreover, as a milk cow for private bankers we’re confident we would still find plenty of satisfaction – and have a little fun too – while providing an honest day’s work for a dishonest day’s pay.
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[[ A vision very optimistic .. according to their own business- interest. Good luck! ]]

With several markets reaching "extreme levels", JPMorgan lists five issues on which capital markets will reverse or extend this fall.

These include:
  • US-China detente (low odds, high market impact);
  • Firmer China activity data due to stimulus (high odds, moderate impact);
  • Policy orthodoxy in large EMs (moderate odds and impact);
  • An even tighter oil market (moderate odds, high impact);
  • Weaker US earnings growth/narrower profit margins (low odds this year, high impact).

For more details on each of these key market-determining catalysts, go to the Source below. Here we the charts related to the 5 points, plus his conclussion:
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Trump approval rating on stock market performance:

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Second, is the true reason behind China's recent weakness, a secular slowdown in both the economy and credit: To JPM, the second key factor to watch for is an upturn in Chinese credit and investment data due to recent monetary and fiscal stimulus. This is because China's investment cycle remains a key medium-term driver of numerous markets (mainly Base Metals and Metals & Mining, sometimes broader EM Equity and Bond indices) through commodity demand.  However, as shown below, so far there has been no joy: August readings on China credit (total social finance) and fixed investment continue to show deceleration.
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At the country level, turning points can come when monetary policy is tightened and macro imbalances fall, thus reversing the vicious circle of currency weakness and equity contagion. Turkey's surprise +625bp rate hike this week to 24% was a necessary condition towards lira stability since it put the country’s real policy rates in the +5-10% zone usually required to reduce severe imbalances, of which Turkey is an outlier.
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Then there's oil, because with so much EM stress, the other consequences of President Trump's foreign policy – a Brent oil price that has returned to a four-year high of $80/bbl – is sometimes overlooked. As JPM points out, given the President’s initiatives, EM currencies and oil are the only two markets where implied volatility has trended higher this year.
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Finally, for US Equities, which remain one of only three risky markets to outperform cash this year - along with US HY Credit and Oil as shown in the chart below...
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... JPMorgan warns that an inflection point could come when earnings growth slows materially and profit margins compress. That said, the bank is doubtful either dynamic materializes in 2018 given how the impact of the US’s twin fiscal eases is spread over several quarters (tax cuts dominate this year and fiscal spending next year), and how gradually the Fed will move to restrictive monetary policy late next year. In fact, JPM's strategists think Q3 earnings growth could come in at 24% year-on-year, so barely decelerating from Q2’s 25% pace. And even though US wage growth has accelerated to a cycle high, a near-concurrent rise in productivity has preserved margins.
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Thus, the trackers for turns in US markets this fall are the more global ones discussed earlier than the organic ones revealed through earnings, which continue to support a strong picture for US stocks.
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In 19 of the past 20 years, spending on CapEx has represented the largest single use of cash by corporations. But not in 2018, in which buybacks have soared by 48% to a record $384 billion during 1H 2018, while spending on capex rose to $341 billion.
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See more interesting charts in the source below
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US  DOMESTIC POLITICS
Seudo democ duopolico in US is obsolete; it’s full of frauds & corruption. Urge cambio

Done in P.1

US-WW ISSUES (Geo Econ, Geo Pol & global Wars)
Global depression is on…China, RU, Iran search for State socialis+K-, D rest in limbo



The Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok has become a crucial part of strategic integration between China, Russia and other countries in northeast Asia, a graduation assimilation set to transform the current world system...
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SPUTNIK and RT SHOWS
GEO-POL n GEO-ECO  ..Focus on neoliberal expansion via wars & danger of WW3


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All the rest is done in Part 1

PRESS TV
Resume of Global News described by Iranian observers..

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