gary17 Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Hello I am wondering if anyone here by chance knows how banks in Japan performed during the country's deflationary period. I looked at the charts on google but don't believe I am getting reliable information. Other than Japan, is there any other nations on the planet that had a very long deflation? Thanks Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JoelS Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Hi Gary, in a word, badly. A brooklyn investor post here goes into some detail: http://brooklyninvestor.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/banks-real-nightmare.html I believe Gillian Tett's book on Japan also offers some insight. Hope this helps. Cheers Joel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerbaron Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 Hello I am wondering if anyone here by chance knows how banks in Japan performed during the country's deflationary period. I looked at the charts on google but don't believe I am getting reliable information. Other than Japan, is there any other nations on the planet that had a very long deflation? Thanks Gary The US post 1929 had very strong deflation pressures. BeerBaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Good read on profit margins: http://philosophicaleconomics.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/profit-margins-accounting-for-the-impact-of-a-changing-financial-share/ It's a follow up to this one, which was also very good: http://philosophicaleconomics.wordpress.com/2014/03/30/foreignpm/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I'm not sure if this is total IPOs or not but I was looking up data and found this: http://www.renaissancecapital.com/ipohome/press/ipopricings.aspx We had more IPOs last year than in 2007. Well on our way to besting it again this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted May 22, 2014 Author Share Posted May 22, 2014 A Return To Old Faithful by Mr. Charles Gave GioDaily+5.21.14.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Interesting piece on profit margins mean reverting or not: http://philosophicaleconomics.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/profit-margins-dont-matter/ Mean-reversion in a system doesn’t happen simply for the sake of happening. It happens because forces in the system cause it to happen. With respect to profit margins, the following questions emerge: What are the forces that cause profit margins to mean-revert? Why do those forces pull profit margins towards any one specific mean value–11%, 9%, 7%, 5%, 3%, 1%–rather than any other? And why can’t secular economic changes–for example, changes in interest rates, corporate taxes, and labor costs–affect those forces in ways that sustainably shift the mean up or down? In what follows, I’m going to explore these questions. I’m going to argue that profit margins are simply the wrong metric to focus on. The right metric to focus on, the metric that actually mean-reverts in theory and in practice, is return on equity (ROE). Right now, the return on equity of the U.S. corporate sector is not as elevated as the profit margin, a fact that has significant implications for debates about the appropriateness of the U.S. stock market’s current valuation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Liberty, do you ever read hussman's columns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Liberty, do you ever read hussman's columns? Not regularly, no. When someone points something out specifically as being interesting, I'll read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Did anyone read the Stephanie Pomboy interview in Saturday's Barron's? Interesting read. Thanks, Lance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatientCheetah Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Did anyone read the Stephanie Pomboy interview in Saturday's Barron's? Interesting read. Thanks, Lance Everyone has his/her opinion. I found it much more simpler and profitable by looking at the long term market moving averages. I remember her last few market calls on Barron's, pretty useless IMO. These perma bears somehow can justify their years of wrongs by getting one crush right. We are not seeing an acceleration in consumer spending because QEs disproportionately benefit the wealthy and they spend lower share of their increased wealth. On an aggregate levels, macro data will look fine and I don't see why this can't continue for a few more years until stock buyback becomes less accretive relative to capital spending due to high valuations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted May 28, 2014 Author Share Posted May 28, 2014 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-bubble-grows-as-markets-ignore-vote-against-euro-2014-05-28?link=MW_popular As I am repeating for some time now, Europe is still a mess... ::) Gio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frommi Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/europe-bubble-grows-as-markets-ignore-vote-against-euro-2014-05-28?link=MW_popular As I am repeating for some time now, Europe is still a mess... ::) Gio The whole world is a mess with the right glasses :). Since i am now fully hedged i am a lot more pessimistic and believe that Mr. Watsa is right in doing what he does. Chinas growth slowing, europe near deflation, the us is in trouble because the dollar will rise and cause deflation there. The FED and ECB are nearly out of bullets and debt levels are still growing and not shrinking. I doubt that the FED is really aware of what is coming, they are still in their tapering plan. When they act it will be too late and then they have to press the pedal to the metal and cause hyperinflation. And the ECB can do nothing, does it really make a difference if interest rates are 0.25 or 0? As long as the banks don`t lend money because of the Basel rules nothing will change, and now the ECB can`t even buy bonds anymore. (Look at what Mr. Schäuble said last week.) I am really afraid at the moment, and i don`t see a lot of people that share my view. Colleges talk about the stock market like there is no easier place to make money, we have a record year for IPOs, margins are at the upper limit and now even the VIX made new 5 or 6 year lows. It smells like 1999/2000 even if it looks a bit different. But who knows, it rarely pays to be pessimistic but since i have put my rosy glasses off i am full of fear and can`t put them on again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmichaud Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Maybe I missed it, but why can't the ECB buy bonds? The Basel restriction is interesting, but I think a new targeted LTRO program will get around this as long as the collateral haircut is low enough to mitigate whatever risk weighting on the retained portion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frommi Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Maybe I missed it, but why can't the ECB buy bonds? The Basel restriction is interesting, but I think a new targeted LTRO program will get around this as long as the collateral haircut is low enough to mitigate whatever risk weighting on the retained portion. Perhaps you can translate this with Google: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/eurokrise/omt-schaeuble-kassiert-die-wunderwaffe-der-ezb-12955803.html In essence, because germany will not allow the OMT program and can veto against it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcollon Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Epsilon Theory (Ben Hunt) "When Does the Story Break?" http://www.salientpartners.com/epsilontheory/notes/When%20Does%20The%20Story%20Break.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEast Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Kyle Bass is also wondering when the story breaks. Japan continues to print and print, and more printing but the currency does not seem to want to break 120 and the yields continue to inch downward. The macro drama continues to play on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frommi Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 Q1 US GDP revised to -1%. http://hotair.com/archives/2014/05/29/boom-q1-gdp-revised-downward-to-1-0/ Oh, don´t worry it was just the weather ???. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 More on profit margins: http://philosophicaleconomics.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/profit-margins-accounting-for-the-effects-of-wealth-redistribution/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giofranchi Posted June 1, 2014 Author Share Posted June 1, 2014 I thought I’d conclude this week’s EVA with a quote from one of the most hallowed economists of all-time, Friedrich Hayek, co-winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics (courtesy of John Hussman): “To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection or production, we want to create further misdirection—a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.” --Mr. David Hay Gio EVA+5.30.2014_NA.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEast Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Gray Swans seem to appearing every other month now. German prices fell 0.3 percent in May, today’s report showed. All economists in the survey predicted they would rise or remain unchanged. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-02/german-inflation-missing-estimates-adds-to-case-for-ecb-action.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerbaron Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 So how can the ECB enforce negative interest rates without a bank run by depositors? BeerBaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatientCheetah Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 So how can the ECB enforce negative interest rates without a bank run by depositors? BeerBaron The negative rates are for the bank deposits at the various central banks. The aim is to force more bank lending which contradicts with shoring up capital ratios. This is what happens when you have a decision body with members representing vastly different interests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fareastwarriors Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Markets Are Restacking the Building Blocks of a Financial Crisis http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/markets-are-restacking-the-building-blocks-of-a-financial-crisis/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Main&contentCollection=Street Scene&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Markets Are Restacking the Building Blocks of a Financial Crisis http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/markets-are-restacking-the-building-blocks-of-a-financial-crisis/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Main&contentCollection=Street Scene&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body Tepper's so frugal, LCD screens are a luxury he doesn't need! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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