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The Annotated (223 Year) History Of The US Bond 'Bubble'
The last few days have seen significant shifts in the term structure of US Treasury bonds; auctions have not gone well and despite the world's expectations for 'taper' to lead to a surge in rates, the long-end of the bond-market has rallied. While Goldman might believe the 'bond bubble' is starting to pop, the following 223 years of Treasury yields (through free-markets and centrally-planned) sheds some light on what the 'new normal' level of rates really represents because, as we noted previously, the world is so levered now that any 'reversion' in rates is simply unthinkable.
Notice any difference pre- and post-Fed?
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heading back to the good 'ol days of 1938.
Can we please see the same chart for Japan?
Yes, exactly. Long rates are still trending down. Deflation and slowdown and inability to raise rates ever will carry the day. Japan at 60 bps is correct. US at 60 bps is correct.
I love the Japanese analogy. SO many smart folks have been so wrong about shorting JGB's for so many years, you'd think they'd learned a lesson when it comes to the US Treasury market.
If Japanese sovereign debt can balloon to almost 250% of GDP and yield ~60bp today, then the US sovereign debt (nowhere near 250% of GDP) can certainly keep on ballooning for many more years, all the while dropping in yield.
There's a reasonable chance the US 10yr could yield 50bp (not 5.0%) before this long cycle is over.
I think with Japan the dynamic that is different is that they are a savers society. Massive pension build up. Well last year was the first year (because of aging demographics) their pension companies had a net drop in assets under management.
You would think as that accelerates the big buyers would be stepping away from the table.
That, plus Japan was only able to do this in the shadow of their sympathetic big brother.
Who is the US' big brother? China?
This is obviously the stabiity that central banks bring.
Stability at the cost of everything that matters. Welcome to the island of stability surrounded by a sea of madness and hopelessness.
the big short?
not so sure on the big short, unless you can "print" some dollars to stay solvent while we go "japan" for 20 years..
Maybe this is what happens when the CBs don't see resource constraints affecting their short term business models, and then run the economy into the stops in their near sighted pursuit of profits without careful moral and ethical considerations.
Or maybe this is what happens when the CBs do clearly see resource constraints affecting their mid and short term business models, and then they run the economy into the stops in their near sighted pursuit of getting some while the getting is good.
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Sort of difficult to make a case for bond yields being "due to rise". The multi decade trend is unmistakeable.
OTOH, oil will change all this.
The long term trend is for lower rates as we have seen here and in Japan. These governments cannot raise rates...ever. BTW...bonds have outperformed stocks over the last 10, 15, 20 and yes, 30 years. Rates should be less than 2% based on real economic data. Peace.
Remember, past performance is always a guarantee of future results.
If its a 223 year history its not the original sin of the FED !
ONe reality hits the fan of historical logic and changes the emphasis of the proverbial knee jerk : its all the fault of the FED.
American capitalism was spawned after the federal victory, like the Indian wars of acquisition, under an Imperial Gen. Grant era, where the powerhouse of industrial USA, on the scale of a continent, was truly born...
Mark Twain called it "the guilded age" when the riches of the original industrial oligarchs were born.
To come back to the essential : the Euro banks have just built a Banking bail IN Maginot line; not a Mutti Siegfried line. She will pull out the minute interest rates rise and Draghi will be dragged under singing : I'm doing whatever it takes...going, going, gone!
When that happens watch the Statists pulling in the bail in rug from under those banks!
Shifting or shitting?
first we have to make the jump above 3% to roast grandma's ass one more time and make sure she gets in the S&P. Then we will just stagnate. the fed won't be borrowing on the long end anyway. They will borrow at the short end and pay 0% interest.
Roasted grandma butt. That does not sound very appetizing.
Tastes like chicken.
It's the new "hedonic adjustment" for cat food for seniors.
What happens if china dumps, i don't know lets say a trillion dollars of bonds on the market. How about other oil producing countries that have these excess dollars when they start taking yuan. Think rates stay the same? Think hyperinflation ensues? Think if they raise rates to suck the money we implode from interest owed on debt? Some explain to me how they get out of these predicaments.
They can't sell without a buyer.
I love the recurrent theme/idea that 'because everybody's so levered, rates can never go up'. That's sort of like me saying 'because I spent all my money on booze and women instead of buying winter clothes, it can never be allowed to get cold now'. A better way of saying it would be 'because everybody's so levered, they're all going to be truly fucked WHEN rates go up, just like 'because I spent all my money on booze andwomen instead of winter clothes, I'm going to be truly fucked when it gets cold'.
Yeah, but if the government is the party that's most levered they will outlaw winter and manipulate the weather forecast to match. Problem solved. Government-style.
The key to understanding market gyrations (the bigger the better), is the unstable market movements promotes deleveraging of the investors ability to park money on a long term approach.
A goverment bail-in of colleges most likely is on the horizon with a debasement of sustainable wages to support the overall educational cost structure.
"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."
If the US economy is so strong at 3.5%.... why are 10 yr interest rates @ 1.90%?
4% and 2.9% respectively. Nontheless your question is 100% valid.
Why on Gods green Earth are we pumping $75b per month into the banking system with a 4% GDP and equity markets now at inflation adjusted ALL TIME HIGHS?
We are not ~ the fed is pumping itself with a corp-govt bonds to counter a imploding fiat with rocketing inflation (blamed on free market forces).
We both know exactly what the game and stakes are...
What happens when the Fed. finally owns the the majority share of the bond market? Does the debt suddenly evaporate. Do other countries sell of their share of the bond market? Does the rest of the world see the United States for what it really is? (printing bonds to monetize current and future debt)
Who picks up the slack when one of those scenarios occurs? China with $15 trillion additional debt on the PBoC books, that can barely survive interest rate shocks for 24 hrs without swaps interventions?
We're not pumping anything, it's just the banksters buying everything and making slaves out of us all.
And just to exemplify from what does the Fed buy these bonds with? Absolutely nothing! It's a theft of cognition of the perception of the dollars value and the race to debase the dollar is really all about globalization through destruction of liberties per the creation of tax slaves.
> Primary dealers
Federal Reserve> US Treasury > hedge funds / pensions ((< rinse repeat any questions?
> Sovereign purchasers
Free markets. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble federal reserve trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a banker mind could invent something as insipid as treasury bonds. You must be able to see it, Mr. Durden. You must know it by now. You can't win. It's pointless to keep fighting. Why, Mr. Durden? Why? Why do you persist? /matrix
I am no bond expert but it looks to me as if we are at a high point in yeilds for this cycle and they are about to decrease sharply.
Which end of the curve?
Birinyi's Ruler only works on stocks. /Lazlo
Good answer Buzz. We haven't crossed paths in a while. I always give you greenies, but forget to sign them.
Then there's the ACA, the primary death card for health care, or is-it-for creating another un-funded liability of unimaginable proportions. The middle ground of healthcare itself has been debased with penalties & caps on college expense recovery costs and, of course, that will result in less educated physicians performing more demanding requirements in their perspective fields of study. Either way this will end with disastrous effects.
Who is this Chas Caldwell troll on MarketWatch?
Who is this Chas Caldwell troll on MarketWatch?
There was no change in 1913 when the Fed was created. Not even a blip. The really big feature is the huge peak that started running up after WW II, double peaked in 1980-1981 and 1984, and then retraced the entire path down to the present day.
You can't predict the future from a graph like that, but if history rhymes, the peak of the next war cycle should see the lowest rates ever, and then a run-up that dwarves the the 1945-1981 run-up by an order of magnitude.
All the chart means is, that someone is counterfeiting a lot of dollars.
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Issac Newtons findings appy to everything.. its certainly going to be and interesting ride to the bottom
Im almost wishing the days away waiting for the catalyst to start the reaction, come on china some of us are getting impatient
Issac Newtons findings appy to everything.. its certainly going to be and interesting ride to the bottom
Im almost wishing the days away waiting for the catalyst to start the reaction, come on china some of us are getting impatient
The answer to how to prepare for the inevitable popping of the bubble is to have plenty of the caliber mentioned in the title of this thread.
10Y is a good benchmark
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