Financial topics

[vincecate]

So Japan is letting 10 year rates go from 0.25% up to 0.50% but they are also printing money and buying bonds faster than ever. This looks to me like the start of the runaway feedback loop. The faster they print the faster people should dump bonds. The faster people dump bonds the faster they will print. Don't know if this is weeks or months or more than a year still, but I think the market players will see this as finally the right time to get short on JGBs. I think the BOJ can not keep things under control much longer. The last 40 years shorting JGBs was "the widow maker trade" but I expect it is profitable over the next 5 years. I think it is blood in the water time.

[vincecate]

More than 3000 crypto currencies deactivated last year (gone to $0).

[Cool Breeze]

Good.

[Cool Breeze]

So Japan is letting 10 year rates go from 0.25% up to 0.50% but they are also printing money and buying bonds faster than ever. This looks to me like the start of the runaway feedback loop. The faster they print the faster people should dump bonds. The faster people dump bonds the faster they will print. Don't know if this is weeks or months or more than a year still, but I think the market players will see this as finally the right time to get short on JGBs. I think the BOJ can not keep things under control much longer. The last 40 years shorting JGBs was "the widow maker trade" but I expect it is profitable over the next 5 years. I think it is blood in the water time.

Yes, things like this will create a short lasting boon in the USA, before the same thing then happens here.

[vincecate]

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Right next to the main pier in Anguilla. Resort next to it has been closed for 20 years.
Closing in 2 months.

[John]

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

So Japan is letting 10 year rates go from 0.25% up to 0.50% but they are also printing money and buying bonds faster than ever. This looks to me like the start of the runaway feedback loop. The faster they print the faster people should dump bonds. The faster people dump bonds the faster they will print. Don't know if this is weeks or months or more than a year still, but I think the market players will see this as finally the right time to get short on JGBs. I think the BOJ can not keep things under control much longer. The last 40 years shorting JGBs was "the widow maker trade" but I expect it is profitable over the next 5 years. I think it is blood in the water time.

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

so the big news all day yesterday was that the Bank of Japan has doubled the top interest rate on the 10-year bond. The interesting thing is that all the analysts seem to be completely baffled by what's going on. some think it is a good move, some think it's a bad move. some think it's a one-off move. others think it's the first of a series of moves. some think it shows the path for the fed to follow, while others think that the Fed should take the opposite approach. it's been a really bad day for the mainstream analysts.

as usual, the mainstream analysts are confused or wrong because they miss the obvious generational issues. The people in Japan are 10 years ahead of the west. the people in the west's major financial crisis began in 1929, while Japan's major financial crisis began in 1919.

Japan had another major financial crisis again in 1990, and the west had one 10 years later in 2000.

here is a graph that I posted in 2007:



Japan's real estate crash may finally end after 16 years
http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... 070220.htm


so if mainstream analysts are completely baffled by what the Bank of Japan is doing, it may be because they're trying to compare the Bank of Japan to the Fed, when the two are completely incomparable because they're at different points on their respective timelines. timelines. I don't know how to relate Japan's timeline to America's timeline, but one possibility is that Japan's actions are predicting what the Fed would have to do 10 years from now. at any rate, I believe this would be an extremely fruitful area of research.

mainstream economists are making a similar mistake by comparing the economy today to the economy in the 1970s, although the two are completely uncomfortable for reasons I've stated many times in the past . once again, this would be an extremely fruitful area of research, if anyone were interested.

[Cool Breeze]

Here is a page with a couple pictures of the land I am buying to build Seasteads.

http://seastead.ai/land/

Right next to the main pier in Anguilla. Resort next to it has been closed for 20 years.
Closing in 2 months.

Cool. Good for you. I've always wondered what the deal with islands is in a world where scarcity and deglobalization catch up to the prior environments, which were mostly uncommon historically. It seems like islands would have major food and standard of living "adjustments."

[Cool Breeze]

so if mainstream analysts are completely baffled by what the Bank of Japan is doing, it may be because they're trying to compare the Bank of Japan to the Fed, when the two are completely incomparable because they're at different points on their respective timelines. timelines. I don't know how to relate Japan's timeline to America's timeline, but one possibility is that Japan's actions are predicting what the Fed would have to do 10 years from now. at any rate, I believe this would be an extremely fruitful area of research.

mainstream economists are making a similar mistake by comparing the economy today to the economy in the 1970s, although the two are completely uncomfortable for reasons I've stated many times in the past . once again, this would be an extremely fruitful area of research, if anyone were interested.

Good points and interesting post, John. It sounds like you are, in general, a proponent of the "Japanification" theory here, at least market wise (and bond buying wise). Obviously, that indicates that the market will decline further from here, which I also expect, and others know since I have a short position. One difference is the obvious difference in having world reserve status and the equities markets that might draw other people to your country, which might be the last one standing (for a while). Either way, the mismanagement and fake "markets" of the US can only last so long.

I also agree that comparing this to the 1970s is silly.

I just read a Howard Marks article that talks about the recent history of the financial/bond markets of the last 50 years and it is quite clear we have a sea change here. Again, the real issue is that the boomer and older generations have had huge say in this boon and have propped up much of this to keep their establishment invested place at the top. Soon, their decline will be great as well, as nothing can stop this train now that inflation is here to stay and policies can only have tradeoff effects, which means problems no matter what way you turn.

[aeden]

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[Cool Breeze]

Yawn, right again, where is my cheering squad when I get things right?