lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2019

ND NOV 18 19 SIT EC y POL



ND  NOV 18 19  SIT EC y POL 
ND denounce Global-neoliberal debacle y propone State-Social + Capit-compet in Eco


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


BEST official story-tell  on our economy: OR: How we lost the “private greed for all”

Authored by Michael Cembalest, CIO JPMorgan Private Bank 

DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach shares the dubious award for 'worst' Armageddonist, with none other than Dr.Doom - Nouriel Roubini...
The ethical principle of “private greed”:
JUST REMEMBER IF GREED IS GOOD, EXTREME GREED MUST BE AWESOME FOR EVERYONE...” [[ Can we call this: Opium dream of Billionaires ]]

As bearish-biased analysts, strategists, and investors throw in the towel amid the market's incessant FOMO-driven melt-up in the face of record global policy uncertainty, declining earnings, and a global economy showing anything but 'troughing'; it seems JPMorgan's Asset Management group has decided now is the time to name names and call out the last decade's so-called "Armageddonists"...

While recessions and bear markets are a fact of life, something peculiar happened after the Global Financial Crisis: the rise of the Armageddonists, which refers to the market-watchers, forecasters and money managers whose apocalyptic comments spread like wildfire in print and online financial news. 

I also understand that mega-bearish news appeals to human negativity bias, a topic examined by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman in his 2011 book on the brain and human survival instincts, by political scientist Stuart Soroka who has illustrated the inverse relationship between magazine sales and the positivity of a magazine’s cover, and in a 2014 experiment in which a city newspaper lost two thirds of its readers on a day when it deliberately only published positive news. That said, what are the consequences for investors that reacted to dire Armageddonist predictions which have flooded the airwaves and internet since 2010?
See Chart:
A History of S&P 500 bear markets


We pulled together comments made by well known Armageddonists since 2010, a few of whom are on record as having anticipated the prior bear market and recession.
See Table:


We measured the impact on an investor deciding to shift a dollar from equities to diversified government, mortgage-backed and corporate bonds after reading the post-2010 comments. To be clear, this isn’t about whether the Armageddonist at some point became more optimistic. This chart is about the opportunity loss for investors that acted upon seeing their comments at the time. One example: $1 shifted from equities to bonds in 2014 in response to mega-bearish commentary would have underperformed equities by around 40% as the S&P 500, propelled more by earnings growth than by multiple expansion, rolled on.
See Chart:
The consequences of listening to Armageddonists, 2010-2019


One day, of course, Armageddonists will be rewarded with a recession.

Partly as a consequence of the China-US Trade War, equity outperformance vs bonds reached a peak in early 2018 and has been treading water since; CEO Confidence has plunged to its lowest level since the financial crisis; the US is now in an earnings recession; and 67% of respondents to the Duke CFO Survey believe the US will be in recession by the end of 2020 (despite all of this, institutional investor positioning in equity futures is close to its highest/most bullish level since 2007).  In any case, for investors that reacted to Armageddonist comments, the larger issue is this: the next recession and bear market will have to be quite severe to earn back what was sacrificed along the way. Using rough math, a sustained, multi-year bear market with 35%-45% declines from peak levels would be needed to reverse many of the opportunity losses shown in the chart above.

HOW SEVERE WILL THE NEXT BEAR MARKET BE?

I believe it won’t be as bad as the prior two, due to the following:
  1. a reduction in global economic imbalances,
  2. higher levels of capital and decreased funding risks in US and European banks,
  3. stronger balance sheet fundamentals of US households,
  4. reduced risk in most Emerging Markets due to higher levels of foreign exchange reserves and less reliance on foreign capital,
  5. and the low level of new US equity supply since buybacks and M&A have exceeded new equity issuance for the last five years.
See Charts:


Having said all that, who could have seen this coming?
See Chart:


Of course, we suspect the fact that Michael Cembalest has decided to issue this report, "outing" the Armageddonists, will only fuel the calls for a top in complacency... just remember if greed is good, extreme greed must be awesome for everyone...
See Chart:
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US  DOMESTIC POLITICS
Seudo democ duopolico in US is obsolete; it’s full of frauds & corruption. Urge cambio


Neo-nazis al attack:

...just enough time for Comey and Clapper to book their flights to Caracas.
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Is there a place they can go if their strategy fails?  Where neonazis are in power to protect  our parasites? We call neo-nazis to those parasites
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Parrots war?

"Politico and Bertrand colluded, collaborated and conspired with Schiff to defame Kash."
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Civil war.. a new normal?

The real grievance is the sense that an unresponsive elite are sucking up all the available wealth, leaving the vast majority with (at best) zero upward mobility and at worst a return to the servitude their parents only recently escaped...


THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS.

Every few days another country blows up, as their citizens take to the streets with little warning and no apparent interest in a quick settlement. Here’s the first part of the “War…Civil Unrest” section of today’s DollarCollapse.com links list. As you can see, the peasants have grabbed their pitchforks and besieged their betters on four continents over a wide range of issues, which implies that the stated cause in each case is just an excuse.
See List of FACTS:


The real grievance is the sense that an unresponsive elite are sucking up all the available wealth, leaving the vast majority with (at best) zero upward mobility and at worst a return to the servitude their parents only recently escaped. To test the truth of this, watch what happens when a chastened government caves on the initial issue — and instead of heading back home the protesters ramp it up.

Who even remembers what pulled France’s Yellow Vests into the streets? The Macron government has spent months apologizing and offering big new spending programs aimed at the protesters’ stated concerns. Yet today’s headline is about water cannons and flipped cars. Hong Kong repealed the law that ignited its riots back in June, yet today the story is protesters shooting police with arrows (!) and Chinese soldiers deploying to help “clean up the streets.” Uh huh.

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING NOW?

Because artificially easy money enriches the people who own the stocks, bonds and real estate that rise in value when interest rates go down. This expands the already painfully wide gap between rich and poor and turns the already high level of background resentment into a powder keg. Then it’s just a matter of a provocation. And there’s always another provocation coming.

Looked at this way, the current wave of unrest is not easily fixed because the immediate remedy is even more easy money. In other words, reinstate the gas price subsidy and borrow whatever is necessary to cover the cost. Or increase welfare spending to make life slightly easier for protesters, at the cost of higher deficits. Then cut interest rates to finance all the new debt.

The result? Even more new money flowing into the elite via rising financial asset prices. Which further widens the gap between rich and poor.

Not a single government is responding to protests with “Ok, we’ll take a bunch of real wealth from the oligarchs and give it to the protesters.” That solution obviously won’t fly with the various versions of deep state/military industrial complex that are in charge out there. Easy money, IN CONTRAST:

1) is technically doable,
2) appears at first glance to help the 99%, and
3) actually further enriches the 1%.

So no one objects, the problem gets worse, and the next round of unrest is even bigger.
This may not be immediately apparent, but most people will get it eventually, by which time a peaceful solution will be far out of reach. Civil unrest is our new normal.
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"At the President's invitation, Chair Powell met with the President and the Treasury Secretary Monday morning at the White House to discuss the economy, growth, employment and inflation."
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Marihuana is not addicted IF cultivated under the sun.. IT only boost your senses

Gateway drug, eh?
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IF you abused daily of course it could became addicted like coffee. The Econ, political & war-crisis that destroy families-union do have negative psychol  effects on personality (young teens specially): that create addictions. But natural Marihuana in itself doesn’t.  What happens is that in the US most marihuana is cultivated inside attics of a house and it is very weak.. do not have power to boost senses, then they added crack  (the poison or venom that kills DNA) . That is is a crime, for that reason I agree to prohibit this type  of Marihuana. In the shorts of the Amazon there is natural marihuana that is very powerful, it got a red flower at the top  of the plant if exposure to sun,  that is called ‘monio rojo’ (not other natural marihuana got it, I guess is the amazon jungle context that create this red flower, said a French lady who use to expend her 15 days -vacation time in Quillabamba-Cusco-Peru. She added 2 little petals from the red flower and cover it with 2  dried leaves of marihuana & she got 3-4 hours of dreams under the compass of classic music. That was her  secret).  With natural-regular marihuana you can have the same 3 hours inside a concert of classic music with 3 dried leaves, you create your own ‘pitillo’  small cigarette. In 5-10 min your star getting effect  and you go to the concert. Not smell & nothing to denounce that you are flying & walking on the moon. BUT you can’t have same effect with fake marithuana cultivated in the attics of a house. IF you have a farm or a big back-yard in your house you can have natural marihuama, all this plant need is exposure to daily sun. This marihuana should NOT be prohibited. Alcohol –other than Merlot that make thin your blood & circulation to your brain - should be prohibited. Hugo Adan
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Fossil fuel combustion is obsolete: kill watter & farmers in fracking-perforation areas; create car pollution (electric & new tech car can erase most polluter cars) and tectonic plaques has been weaken because oil-gas exploration (earthquakes  are expected ) & if WW3 comes, Yellowstone will blow up just because chain reaction from nearest nuke silos explosion.. that is the main US target if the PENTA & NATO initiates WW3.   

The oil and gas industry used to be untouchable. It’s not anymore...
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The key QT is: who is not enemy of  Oil & Gas = Fossil fuel combustion, knowing that it put at risk our life.. the life of our entire nations.. worse if we initiate WW3. The only real friends of OIL & GAS are 1-the super-billionaires who profit from such business, starting with the brothers Koch and 2-the top-layers of bureaucracy in PENTA and NATO plus 3-d-military industrial complex
I did mention 3 of the biggest friends of Oil & Gas… you mention the rest.
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US-WORLD  ISSUES (Geo Econ, Geo Pol & global Wars)
Global depression is on…China, RU, Iran search for State socialis+K-, D rest in limbo


...quid pro quo?

After plunging in August (US foreign net transactions saw a $41 billion outflow - the biggest monthly outflow since Dec 2018), September data showed a notable $49.47 billion rebound in flows...
See Chart:
US NET Foreign Transaction Flows


Only Treasuries saw net selling
  • Foreign net selling of Treasuries at $34.3b
  • Foreign net buying of equities at $8.8b
  • Foreign net buying of corporate debt at $14.9b
  • Foreign net buying of agency debt at $26b
See Chart:
Foreign net transaction  of US Treasuries


Rather notably Japan, after buying the most Treasuries since 2013 in August, dumped $28.9 billion in September - its biggest monthly cut in Treasury reserves ever...
See Chart:
Japan Holding of US Treasuries


China dumped Treasuries for the sixth month in the last seven to its lowest level of holdings since May 2017...
See Chart:
China Holding of US Treasury


And finally, we note that Israel continues to be an active buyer of US bonds (buying for the fifth of the last six months to a new record high)...


...quid pro quo?
The trend continues - albeit with a slowdown in the last month or two - as Treasury holdings tumble worldwide, gold reserves have been rising...
See Chart:
Global Gold Holdings
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NOTE  RELATED:  From Hugo Adan

JA & China are the largest holders of US Treasuries . What could happen when they dumped our US-T?    China and Japan dumped U.S. Treasuries the most in August. ... In the big-picture view, this mean that the world is moving away from the US dollar.

“U.S. Treasuries slumped in September 2018, as the 10-year Treasury yield breached 3.2%,  worrying investors that could cause equities to reassess their valuations.   If yields rise as a result of economic growth is fine, it is deemed positive for equities. However, any sudden or relentless move higher on the back of inflation  creates tightening financial conditions, equities take as a headwind -- and investors get worried. But there is something more sinister behind the move seen in U.S. bonds in September. Japan and Russia are all sellers  & they selling more vs. Saudi Arabia as buyer & they are buying lesss. This has driven the global share of USD reserves to its lowest since 2013.  Now the USD is going down  and there are “signs ” that “inflation is overheating.". 

According to investopedia the dumping of US Treasury will affect the whole US Treasury Yield panorama and create dollar devaluation in the world market. (Devaluation leads to Capitulation). As shown on the chart of the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, this benchmark yield has not hit such depths since October of 2016. Where do yields go from here?  If trade fears increase further, we could potentially be seeing a retest of the 1.36%-area lows of 2016.  FACT:  China don’t want  USD  & the US  don want Yuans. SOLUTION : a gold - currency for Trade Deals
See Chart:
US 10-Y Treasury Yield
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Nuclear generation in the US and France faces contrasting challenges of power market prices and safety concerns, as this week’s graphics show...
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"We are no longer interested in such meetings that provide us no benefit." 
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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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NOTICIAS IN SPANISH
Lat Am search f alternatives to neo-fascist regimes & terrorist imperial chaos

New red in Spanish News:  with Videos
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REBELION:

Bolivia:  El odio al indio  Álvaro García Linera
Entr:  Frédéric Lordon “El capitalismo no se irá amablemente”  J A
Ecol-S:  Fuerzas supermercantiles  Gustavo Duch
CA-US:  Los esclavos laborales  Aitana Vargas
Opin:  Revolucion bolchevique  Iñaki Gil
Opin:  Los valores convertidos en antivalores  Libardo García
COL: 21 N.   Colombia parará como nunca  Pablo Nariño
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ALAI NET 

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RT EN ESPAÑOL

Evo: "Mesa, Camacho y Áñez tienen miedo de que vuelva para pacificar el país porque quieren escarmentar al pueblo"   https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/334122-morales-mesa-camacho-anez-tener-miedo-volver-pacificar-pais
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Dispersan con gases lacrimógenos a manifestantes que marchaban en Bolivia por el retorno de Evo Morales   https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/334125-fuerzas-seguridad-emplean-agentes-quimicos-bolivia
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Disturbios y choques con carabineros en el segundo 'superlunes' de protestas en Chile a pesar del acuerdo para una nueva Constitución   https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/334096-superlunes-marchas-chile-acuerdo-constitucion
Gobierno de facto de Bolivia destina 5 millones de dólares para "equipar" a las FF.AA. en medio de denuncias por brutal represión de las protestas  https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/334121-bolivia-34-millones-equipamiento-ffaa
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INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE
Deep on the US political crisis: neofascism & internal conflicts that favor WW3

-Jewish settlements not illegal, Pompeo announces in historic US policy shift
By ICH and Agencies 
U.S. Contravenes International law
-Plundering Iraq   By Eric Margolis
-America’s Arms Sales Addiction  By William D. Hartung
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COUNTER PUNCH
Analysis on US Politics & Geopolitics

Bill Hatch  A New Silence
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GLOBAL RESEARCH
Geopolitics & Econ-Pol crisis that leads to more business-wars from US-NATO  allies

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DEMOCRACY NOW
Amy Goodman’  team

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PRESS TV
Middle East n world news

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