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The Five Stages Of A Sovereign's Life-Cycle
Bridgewater's Ray Dalio believes four factors drive relative economic growth: competitiveness, indebtedness, culture, and luck. The returns from his machine-like investment process clearly indicate he is on to something as he notes that the most powerful influences of this relative income (and power) are 1) the psychology that drives people’s desires to work, borrow and consume and 2) war (which we measure in the “luck” gauge).
Via Bridgewater:
Throughout history, Dalio advises these two influences have changed countries’ competitiveness and indebtedness which have caused changes in their relative wealth and power. He goes on to add that since different experiences lead to different psychological biases that lead to different experiences, etc., certain common cause-effect linkages drive the typical cycle of a nation's growth, power and influence.
To summarize, we believe that countries typically evolve through five stages of the cycle:
1) In the first stage countries are poor and think that they are poor.
In this stage they have very low incomes and most people have subsistence lifestyles, they don’t waste money because they value it a lot and they don’t have any debt to speak of because savings are short and nobody wants to lend to them. They are undeveloped.
2) In the second stage countries are getting rich quickly but still think they are poor.
At this stage they behave pretty much the same as they did when they were in the prior stage but, because they have more money and still want to save, the amount of this saving and investment rises rapidly. Because they are typically the same people who experienced the more deprived conditions in the first stage, and because people who grew up with financial insecurity typically don’t lose their financial cautiousness, they still a) work hard, b) have export-led economies, c) have pegged exchange rates, d) save a lot, and e) invest efficiently in their means of production, in real assets like gold and apartments, and in bonds of the reserve countries.
3) In the third stage countries are rich and think of themselves as rich.
At this stage, their per capita incomes approach the highest in the world as their prior investments in infrastructure, capital goods and R&D are paying off by producing productivity gains. At the same time, the prevailing psychology changes from a) putting the emphasis on working and saving to protect oneself from the bad times to b) easing up in order to savor the fruits of life. This change in the prevailing psychology occurs primarily because a new generation of people who did not experience the bad times replaces those who lived through them. Signs of this change in mindset are reflected in statistics that show reduced work hours (e.g., typically there is a reduction in the average workweek from six days to five) and big increases in expenditures on leisure and luxury goods relative to necessities.
4) In the fourth stage countries become poorer and still think of themselves as rich.
This is the leveraging up phase – i.e., debts rise relative to incomes until they can’t any more. The psychological shift behind this leveraging up occurs because the people who lived through the first two stages have died off or become irrelevant and those whose behavior matters most are used to living well and not worrying about the pain of not having enough money. Because the people in these countries earn and spend a lot, they become expensive, and because they are expensive they experience slower real income growth rates. Since they are reluctant to constrain their spending in line with their reduced income growth rate, they lower their savings rates, increase their debts and cut corners. Because their spending continues to be strong, they continue to appear rich, even though their balance sheets deteriorate. The reduced level of efficient investments in infrastructure, capital goods and R&D slow their productivity gains. Their cities and infrastructures become older and less efficient than those in the two earlier stages. Their balance of payments positions deteriorate, reflecting their reduced competitiveness. They increasingly rely on their reputations rather than on their competitiveness to fund their deficits. They typically spend a lot of money on the military at this stage, sometimes very large amounts because of wars, in order to protect their global interests. Often, though not always, at the advanced stages of this phase, countries run “twin deficits” – i.e., both balance of payments and government deficits.
5) In the last stage of the cycle they typically go through deleveraging and relative decline, which they are slow to accept.
After bubbles burst and when deleveragings occur, private debt growth, private sector spending, asset values and net worths decline in a self-reinforcing negative cycle. To compensate, government debt growth, government deficits and central bank “printing” of money typically increase. In this way, their central banks and central governments cut real interest rates and increase nominal GDP growth so that it is comfortably above nominal interest rates in order to ease debt burdens. As a result of these low real interest rates, weak currencies and poor economic conditions, their debt and equity assets are poor performing and increasingly these countries have to compete with less expensive countries that are in the earlier stages of development. Their currencies depreciate and they like it. As an extension of these economic and financial trends, countries in this stage see their power in the world decline.
So the US (and much of the advanced economies of the world) are clearly in Stage 5 (or perhaps delusional still in Stage 4) and now we hope for a 'beautiful deleveragin vs an 'ugly deleveraging'
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Ain't been beautiful for me. More like "Aunt Ester"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab9plpNU3tE
I speed dated a female gorilla and then found her a mate in peking zoo. She said "panda to you too."
Yeah...but how'd you make out, falak?
Boris confused, why is Russia skip stage 3 and 4? Always feel and is poor!
We should ask Tsar Vlad about that one...
the lady was not my type but she was cute enuff to wish me well! Ain't that swell!
The answer we were looking for was, "Very carefully."
Ha!
:D
she didn't have "claws" like PAula, and I wasn't embedded enuff to cry out for help! After the deserts.
Have you noticed how fast those MIC generals "speed date" ?
Glorious profession, four stars n all!
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Yes, I saw that. Very, very suspicious...in a strange way.
It seems cut and pasted to me, like the birth certificate itself; almost like they're trying to get caught. Or shove it in our faces?
A perfect set-up for a coup d'etat spearheaded by the "disgraced" former hero? Hmmm. It makes one wonder.
well if you can't win the war lie back and enjoy the "hidden" peace!
Ares and Venus, its always been temptation. Can't change human nature. But a spook community is like the Inquisition, it eats its own sons, for betrayal of dogma. It ain't a humanitarian creed. They play for high stakes.
Who cares, except here its all on public issues of blood n guts criminality, and done so incestuously, like it was part of being a general's feudal rights on subordinates. REminds me of DSK. But these women were gold diggers not innocents.
Much prefer dating gorilla women, they ain't in the power game! Just into cuddling in unknown places. Peking zoo!
"Seven days in May", good film on the Thermidorian reaction theme.
Akin to the life cycle of a tapeworm -- and regarding the fiscal health of the host, of equal benefit.
http://www.scientific-art.com/GIF%20files/Medical/tapeworm.gif
( WB7 -- perhaps the time is nigh to diagram the "life cycle." )
stage 1: military rule
stage 2: nationalists
stage 3: colonialists
stage 4: socialists
stage 5: anarchy
Stage 6: Mass murder, military rule.
(Repeat)
BUCK FARACK
Collapsing bubbles do not have enough surface area to keep all the people aloft.
This is why the smart people move to a developing country when it's become apparent that the current one is declining and becoming rather distasteful.
Like? No really, name a few that I can feel safe with the "loco's".
Poland, Romania, Czech Republic...
You're not safe where you are at, it's just a delusion that you believe in to justify not leaving a place that is declining at an ever-increasing rate.
I'm moving to the Philippines, I have never had trouble with anything during my times there, and the people are actually polite. There are places all over the world that are good to live in. The US does not have the monopoly on opportunity.
the USA can bomb every inch of opportunity in the world in less than 3 minutes
so can china & russia, smartass
dogs don't shit where they sleep
US is not going to bomb manhattan or DC
Russia is not going to bomb Moscow
China is not goign to bomb Beijing
When things get sour world-wide EVERYWHERE will have locals who will lash out at foreigners.
As someone who has traveled there and is married to a Filipina all I can say is: depends on where you go and whether you have money.
Let's see how long you last in the South. (I'm guessing that you're white.)
And in general (assuming you're not of banker status), if you have money people will appear more friendly.
Although I am well accepted by my wife's family I don't think that I could feel comfortable should things go into the toilet
don't let the natives eat you as you are fat and white. Distateful is a relative concept.
Not fat or white, but thanks for trying. You can be scared all you wish, just don't let your fears weigh upon me as a person, you might find that I'm less likely to be polite to you in the future.
don't take it personally its a jibe at this propensity to outsource profit and insource pain. I don't like RICH people in general who run away from their community, but then I can understand it for each individual, especially in trying times. Scared is not the emotion I feel on this issue, its disappointment.
As they say, never shame A Woman even if you care to blame female foibles in general. Just an example. I ain't got anything against women, on the contrary.
Have you seen how many states are petitioning to secede? Texas already has enough signatures and other states are building quickly! Not like it will ever happen.... but I think civil unrest is brewing!
Let it happen, I'm not fighting for someone else.
No, Marc Fabar lives in Thailand because he's a BDSM addict.
Sounds like his problem.
I heard the rumors about Faber being into kink, but at least he hasn't gone McAfee-in-Belize and on a rectally inserted, refined bath salts bender & murder spree, bitchez:
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The correct spelling is not Marc Fabar: it is Marc Fubar.
Big Time
Developing?
Those that you may believe are "developing" are going to go in the shitter REAL fast when the US pukes. And, as someone else noted, good luck trying to hide the fact that you're not a "local."
Stage 6: SHTF
Shit Hits Your Face is more likely, as the fan's been reposessed.
So...as long as everyone can believe/make-believe that we are still in Stage 4, everything will be fine?
What if I am right?
Stage 5 was 2008. You missed the starting gun, Again. Now in stage 1 or 2.
How many posters here think they are rich....
What stage would that be? Buy Biotech.
If you look at Japan's population pyramid for 2010 and 2015:
http://www.ipss.go.jp/site-ad/TopPageData/2010e.png
http://www.ipss.go.jp/site-ad/TopPageData/2015e.png
you see that a whole lot of Japanese are going to celebrate their 65th birthday in the current half-decade. They will retire and change from purchasers to sellers of JGB's. It will be interesting to see what happens.
The Japanese baby boom peaked about 10 years earlier than the US boom. So the US in 2025 might look a lot like Japan in 2015.
time to coin new euphemisms for deathPanels and senicide
populationPyramid re-balancing
popPyr sculpting
popPyr pruning
popPyr right-sizing
Well guy's, we though we were fuc&ing the woman, but now that there is not enough replacements to support us, it really was them fuc&ing us. We are just slow learners.
sounds like the life cycle of a dynasty; rags to riches to rags.
The earth is awash in fiat. Sorry, no getting away from that.
While it won't be news to most ZH readers, this is actually a good, succinct summary.
5 stages
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1. Hardy 'working types' emigrate to pristine land
2. They build infrastructure, & manufacture goods from the fruit of the land
3. They band together to create mutually beneficial co-ops
4. Jews arrive to profit from the newly created commerce
5. All hell breaks loose
You're a racist prick...................
the truth hurts doesn't it asshole!!
remind me again asshole how jews are a race. i guess there are blond haired, blue eyed jews and dark eyed black hair jews huh? is that right. huh? jews and their familiars will always defend themselves with the racist, anti-semite rant/trick. most jews are jews by religion only as they are decendants of Khazar barbarians (ashkenazi) which have absolutely no racial heritage with biblical jews or modern day semites known as Palestinians. Get your facts straight douche bag before you come out with your familiar attack canard of "racist" anti-semite. I for one, won't fall for it. I guess I am a racist/anti-semite for point this out though, right douche bag. please call me one so I can confirm your brainwashed, ignorant, feeble mind.
exactly right my friend! the jew parasites move in to suck the blood out of the host as they always have. jews have been kicked out of every european country over the past 2000 yrs, sometimes multiple times. The problem isn't the native population, it is the jews and their greed/theivery/usury.Oh, but its always the goys fault. google the Holdomor to see what I mean. ethnic christians starved to death by Bolshevik jews
You missed the part where the resources get consumed up, which tends to make those fruits rot...
I thought stage-2 was describing China until I read this: " e) invest efficiently in their means of production, in real assets like gold and apartments, and in bonds of the reserve countries "
Stage 6) society collapses , civil wars ensue, then the rebuilding begins.
Stage 5a) Jews create 'false flags' & propaganda in order to instigate the societal collapse from which civil wars ensue (think Bolsheviks)...
Stage 5b) They steal & hide the gold in the process...
Stage 6a) Rebuilding begins with history being rewritten ~ a new Hegelian dialectic emerges...
Russia under the Czars was never weathy or productive. It was always poor. Bad example.
Well then ~ thank goodness the Bolsheviks arrived on the scene to make it all better...
Even if you're correct, [& I'm not really arguing with your statement], the only thing the Bolsheviks brought to the table was to STEAL what wealth actually was there & then keep it for themselves... Which is typical Jew behavior & which confirms my original point...
First I lost 80% of my business sales, then my liberal friends all went "brainwashy" at the same time...
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Dalio & Gross got the last fucking lampshade at the gold party. And I fucking doubt either could find an ounce of silver with both hands and a flashlight.
The real question is what happens after step 5. The dark ages like after the fall of the western roman empire, a gradual decline like the end of the British empire or something else entirely?
Yes
Think; USSR, Argentina.
No disrespect to the authors but ... so what? I get it. We're screwed. How about some creative thoughts on what to do about it.
5 weeks & one day ¿¿. That's just fucking rich.
just heard on a radio interview today we are still paying interest on our world war 1 debt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! world war freaking one!!!!!!!!
In 1978 Sir John Glubb wrote a much better treatment of this subject, called "The Fate of Empires". There are still free copies floating around the Internet. Take two hours to read it; it's one of those rare books whose every word rings true.
"Bridgewater's Ray Dalio believes four factors drive relative economic growth: competitiveness, indebtedness, culture, and luck."
DUMB FUCKER!
No fucking mention of "resources!" And people want to know why our economic system, the very one that doesn't factor in that we're on a finite planet (while espousing perpetual growth), the one that's SUPPOSED to account for resource distribution, is failing? UGH- FUCK!
While it may explain the phenomenon of soverign debt cycles, it certainly doesn't encapsulate everything else that needs to be accounted for-- a financial system that has benefited during stage 4 (doing work that would make drug dealers blush) and policymakers that encourage it because it creates a wealth illusion (read effect) and for the interest of "price stability" a central bank that helps fund this behavior. All a cover for a wealth transfer con that merely leaves the sucker holding the bag while the con men look for another mark (ahem China). While Dalio's explanation accounts for one side, the other side needs to be accounted for otherwise we don't have a tango.
In the end, we are screwed to suffer the developed world syndrome where crony capitalism runs as rampant as the idiotic economic group think amongs policymakers parading in front of an otherwise docile and thoughtless populace unless we are able to replace the policymakers with ones willing to treat the problem for what it is: an out of control situation of debt and unattainable promises that can only be met with the destruction of the former.
Step 6: Your Reserve Bank turns its printing press over to GROUPON
Ray Dalio is rather delusional. Does he think that nobody has thought about these questions before? He's given them maybe 20 hours of thought, if that. Others have devoted lives to them. But hey lets read what Ray says. He's rich you know. Waste of our time Tyler. Stick to what Zero Hedge knows. Hint: It ain't history.