Authored by Jesse Colombo via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
As the probability of a U.S. recession in the next year grows rapidly (it
may be as high as 64%), many bullish economists and financial
commentators are unsurprisingly downplaying this risk. One of their main
arguments is that interest rates have not been hiked aggressively
enough to tip the economy over into a recession. While it is true that
U.S. interest rates are still very low by historic standards, the reality is that rates do not have to rise anywhere near as high as
they did in the past to cause recessions due to America’s debt load
that has grown dramatically over the past several decades. 来年の米国景気後退入り可能性は急速に増しているなかで(可能性は64%)、多くの強気はエコノミストや金融コメンテーターは驚くことにこのリスクを過小評価している。彼らが主に主張することの一つが金利は積極的に引き上げられておらず景気後退を引き起こすほどのレベルではない、というものだ。歴史的に見て米国金利ははまだとても低いのは確かだが、現実には、過去に景気後退を引き起こしたレベルまで金利を引き上げることができないというのが本当のところだ、というのもここ数十年米国の債務負荷が劇的に増えたためだ。
Since the early-1980s, total U.S. debt – both public and private –
has been growing at a faster rate than the underlying economy, as
measured by the nominal GDP:
As a result of debt growing faster than our underlying economy,
America’s debt as a percent of GDP soared from just over 150% in the
early-1980s to approximately 350% in recent years. This higher debt
burden is the reason why our economy simply cannot handle interest rates as high as they were before 2008.
Particularly worrisome is the fact that U.S. federal debt is at a
record of over 100% of the GDP (vs. 62% before the Great Recession),
which will make it a much greater challenge to keep the economy afloat
in the coming recession:
Market strategist Sven Henrich described our conundrum quite well:
市場ストラテジストSven Henrichは今我々が抱える難問を的確に表現した:
As the Fed Funds rate chart below shows, the interest rate threshold
necessary to trigger recessions (recessions are designated by the gray
bars) keeps falling as our debt burden increases:
Though many optimists are quick to point out that the benchmark Fed
Funds rate was only increased from 0% to 2.5% during the current
tightening cycle, the reality is that the current tightening cycle is even more aggressive than the past several cycles when the Fed Funds rate is adjusted for quantitative easing(this is known as the shadow Fed Funds rate – learn more).
According to this methodology, interest rates have increased by the
equivalent of 5.41% in the current cycle versus just 3.62% before the
2001 recession and 4.26% before the Great Recession of 2007 to 2009:
多くの楽観主義者の指摘では、今回の引き締めサイクルでFFRは0%から2.5%に増えたに過ぎないという、しかしながら、現実には現在の金利引き締めは過去数回の引き締めよりももっと積極的なものだ、というのもFFRは量的緩和を考慮すべきだからだ(このことはシャドーFFRとしてしられているーーくわしくはこちら)。この手法を適用すると、現在の金利引き上げはすでに過去の引き上げなら5.41%に相当するものである、一方2001年の景気後退前の引き上げは3.62%であり、2007から2009年のthe Great Recession前では4.26%だった:
The 10-year U.S. Treasury note yield also confirms the message given
by the Fed Funds rate: the U.S. economy has become increasingly
sensitive to higher interest rates:
The rapidly-approaching recession poses a serious risk to the
extremely inflated U.S. stock market, which is up 300% since its 2009
low. The U.S. stock market is experiencing an unsustainable bubble due
to the aggressive actions of the Fed (see my detailed explanation).
To summarize, interest rates do not need to rise much to throw the heavily-indebted U.S. economy into a recession now; furthermore, interest rates have likely already risen to the levels that are necessary to tip our feeble economy over into a recession, as evidenced by rapidly weakening economic data. At
this stage of the game, everyone needs to be realistic – we can’t
expect to have a full decade of unprecedented central bank stimulus
without a tremendous bust. Central banks can only create temporary
economic booms by borrowing from the future rather than sustainable,
organic economic booms. Anyone who does not believe in that truth right
now, or is not aware of it, will inevitably become a firm believer in
the coming bust.
C&I Loans Enter The Danger Zone by Tyler Durden Thu, 03/14/2019 - 15:55 Authored by Jesse Colombo via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Commercial and industrial (C&I) loan activity is watched closely by economists to gauge the strength of the economy and estimate where we are in the business cycle. C&I loans are used to finance capital expenditures or increase the borrower’s working capital. The C&I loan cycle often takes up to a couple of years to turn positive after a recession, but provides even more confirmation that an economic expansion is underway. For example, the U.S. Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, but the C&I loan cycle didn’t turn positive until late-2010. C&I loans also help to wa...
Mish: Gold Hits New Record High And There's More To Come by Tyler Durden Mon, 07/27/2020 - 10:10 Twitter Facebook Reddit Email Print Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, Gold futures just touched $1928 taking out the Intraday high of $1923.70 in 2011. ゴールド先物が$1928になり、2011年の日中高値$1923.70を超えた。 11-Week Run 11週連続上昇 Gold is on a huge 11-week run. The last time gold did that was at the 2011 high. ゴールドはなんと11週連続で上昇だ。前回の新高値は2011年のことだった。 Is a pullback in order? A Gold COT chart says otherwise. 通常の引き戻しが待ち構えているだろうか? ゴールドのCoTチャートを見るとそうでもなさそうだ。 Gold COT Chart ゴールドCoTチャート Understanding Futures 先物市場を読み解く In the futures world there is a short for every long. 先物市場ではどのロングにもショートが対応している。 The first horizontal box has Large Specs, Small Specs, and Commercials. This is It's Old COT reporting. この図の下部、最初の横長い箱に示すのは Large Specs、Small Specs、そしてCommercialsのポジションだ。このチャートは従来からのCoT...