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Saxobank CIO Sees: "Zero Growth, Zero Inflation, & Zero Hope"

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Entrepreneurs around the world are "drowning in this nothingness reality," and Saxobank CIO Steen Jakobsen sees a crisis correction as the only outcome of a zero environment in his opinion. "We have zero growth, zero inflation and zero hope," he explains based on his recent global travels meeting business leaders and key investors whose shared negative outlook was striking. The following brief clip concludes ominously, with Jakobsen noting that he "believes a Fed hike will act as a margin call on the global economy."

 

 

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Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:36 | 6023858 Stackers
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The Chris Martenson podcast interview with Jakobsen is a must listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnp5ETnKylU

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:49 | 6023898 order66
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"When I scan stocks for those with P/E over 200, I get screen after screen of results"

Buy infinity @ market.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:50 | 6024083 zaphod
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What the hell is wrong with you.

Look at how rich the FED has made everyone. Everyone who owns those stocks with P/E's above 200 has made a ton a money. Without these valuations pension funds would be even more underwater. This is all good for everyone. 

Now be a good serf and buy one of those stocks from CALPERS will you.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:56 | 6024092 SoilMyselfRotten
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Holy crap, this might be the first banker who actually jumps from a building

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 20:30 | 6024399 Mentaliusanything
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Very old saying "There is no inflation in a graveyard"

And thats what exists for the majority

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 23:42 | 6024889 daveO
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"believes a Fed hike will act as a margin call on the global economy."

This occurred when QE stopped in Oct. Commodity prices are much lower. The paper mache markets have yet to get the memo.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:53 | 6024089 Praetorian Guard
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P/E ratios don't mean shit anymore... I have a bad feeling that this game of bullshit will continue... after all if all the players agree to the same rules, as insane as they sound, the game keeps going, rigged or not. Those who speak up or question the legality get thrown to the wolves as an example for others thinking about doing the same...

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Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:01 | 6023931 ZerOhead
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Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:38 | 6023862 ted41776
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buy all the things, everything is awesome! /sarc

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:48 | 6023897 Rainman
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Fed hike ? .... hahahaha

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 02:01 | 6025103 Gusher
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Zero hope?   Naw.  I hope for continued low or lower gas prices and a new president who is not an idiot socialist and dictator appeaser.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:39 | 6023865 CarpetShag
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"I think the Fed has done a good job"
blah blah blah

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:47 | 6023867 Lin S
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How can the Fed ever raise rates?  Won't higher interest rates basically crush FedGov's ability to service the debt?

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:28 | 6023933 buzzsaw99
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i see this logic error all the time on zh which is surprising considering how hep this bunch is on most matters. the fed funds rate has very little to do with treasury rates in this environment. whatever long-short duration arb in treasurys is destroyed by a higher ffr margin call the money coming out of stocks would moar than compensate imo. Ironically QE doesn't cause lower treasury rates either. it causes higher asset prices which in turn actually cost the taxpayers money. If it weren't for QE the 10Y yield would probably be negative.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:33 | 6024038 BringOnTheAsteroid
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The fed will raise rates under the cover of the decimation of world war 3. These psychos would destroy the world to save their reputation. Think Japanese and Fukushima.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 23:57 | 6024907 daveO
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Who works for who? The FED does not work for the FedGov. It's the other way around! The Republican Congress will raise taxes, by hook or by crook, before they will abolish (or even audit!) the FED. See 2006 Rep. Congress making student loans a lifelong indenture. See also 'Rep. appointed' Roberts' Court calling the ObamaCare penalty a tax. US tax/debt slaves will be forced to pay higher interest rates if that's what it takes to save the bankster establishment via the dollar. Otherwise, it's time to ditch the dollar for Yuan.

http://redefininggod.com/nwo-schedule-of-implementation/

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:44 | 6023886 ZerOhead
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Zero Growth

Zero Inflation

Zero Hope &

Zero Change

 

~ President Zero

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:21 | 6024000 ILLILLILLI
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"Mission Accomplished"...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:25 | 6024017 SDShack
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I've always called him 0zer0. That's the word "zero" bookended with the number 0, not the letter "O". My take is Obama was nothing before he was president. Is nothing as president. And will be nothing after the presidency. The perfect zero... "0zer0".

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:37 | 6024044 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Bush, Patriot Act

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:56 | 6024101 booboo
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Obama Patriot Act
Clinton/Bush/Fillintheblank Patriot Act
Blah blah blah red team blue team rah rah rah
Looking forward to shit in a shack

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 02:24 | 6025129 Johnny Fiat and...
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You need a history lesson, Asteroid.  Here's where it all began...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforceme...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 03:17 | 6025176 BringOnTheAsteroid
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Believe me, I am no supporter of Obama but I think on balance, Bush junior was the worst president in the history of the States . . . . . maybe. They pulled off 9/11. There has not been a bigger direct attack on the US in history and members of his government were complicit. Sure, Clinton repealed Glass Steagal and Obama has exacerbated the worst of the Bush era but jeez, Bush was a shocker.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:43 | 6024060 Ward cleaver
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Not true, he will make his biggest bang after he officially checks out and becomes a whore for different Fortune 500 companies as he gives advise to the lawmakers in the swamp known as DC

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:45 | 6023890 rickv404
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We do NOT have "zero inflation". I don't know where he got that.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:46 | 6023893 weburke
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"nothingness" ? hampered by his budhism sounds like.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:46 | 6023894 SERReal1
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Perhaps he meant zero "reported" inflation. Everyone knows the reported number is bullshit.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:52 | 6023912 Berspankme
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Even if we had and we don't have zero inflation, why would asslips view that as negative in the same light as zero growth. Fuck all you inflation hawks. Fuck everyone of you ignorant cunts

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 22:08 | 6024680 Sanity Bear
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in the context of many years of Fed ZIRP/QE policy it means total policy failure

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:04 | 6023946 ZerOhead
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I strongly doubt we even have ZERO growth.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:42 | 6024231 BuddyEffed
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I think our growth is in the square root of minus 1 range, somewhere off in the imaginary plane!

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 01:45 | 6025083 AgentScruffy
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Even the forecast of zero growth is apparently suffering from inflation. 

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:03 | 6023948 Stoploss
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You have zero asset inflation. House, the things you "own" the stuff you can't sell to anyone and get what you think it's worth, because they don't have any money either.

The things you need, like food, utilities, gas, the things to survive, are severely inflated.

Deflation in the wrong place.

Inflation in the wrong place.

Raising rates with inflation in the wrong place means there will be only few survivors...

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 01:44 | 6025080 AgentScruffy
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Is this what's considered "biflation"? 

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:29 | 6024015 Wild Theories
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He is the CIO of a Danish investment bank. He is not necessarily speaking from a US-centric POV on inflation.

Either way, the inflation targets set by various CBs are nowhere close to being met, that's the important bit.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:49 | 6023902 ucde
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Wow. Confirmed ZeroHedge reader.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:51 | 6023909 trader1
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Zero HEDGE.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:53 | 6023913 DOGGONE
Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:55 | 6023920 Yen Cross
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 Someone buy that "MOFO" a chicken dinner...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:55 | 6023922 buzzsaw99
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...Jakobsen noting that he "believes a Fed hike will act as a margin call on the global economy."

no shit sherlock, that's why there won't be one

 

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:07 | 6024126 Uber Vandal
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Unless, to quote the Joker from the Batman movie, "It's All Part of the Plan".

 

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:47 | 6024248 BuddyEffed
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No, there won't be a rate hike, but they need to keep pretending that there might be one to provide cover for the spin.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 00:03 | 6024917 daveO
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They ended QE in Oct. $85 billion per month. $1 Trillion per month. 6% of $17trillion outstanding US debt a year earlier. That's a huge increase, -$85B per month. That's why oil and commodities have fallen.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:56 | 6023924 kchrisc
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"Saxobank CIO Sees: "Zero Growth, Zero Inflation, & Zero Hope"

Lots of guillotines.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 17:57 | 6023932 csmith
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Big fat zero...

 

Oh. You mean Hillary.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:06 | 6023955 tarabel
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If 1/4 of a point is going to crash the whole show, the whole show is going to crash anyhow.

So let's Get R Done and then we can start rebuilding. The longer we wait, the bigger the crash.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 20:59 | 6024494 gwar5
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Well said, and you could repeat that for everything else out there like a Grexit, deliquent student loans, war in Ukraine, defaulting fracking companies, deflation, etc.

If everything is so brittle and fragile that any one of those things can stop life as we know it then we need to shoot the people who built this fucked up system because they are an existential global threat.

 

Sat, 04/25/2015 - 00:34 | 6028718 TheReplacement
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Nah.  Let's make it really big.  Let's make this a bonfire for the ages.  Let this one leave a mark that humankind will never, ever forget.  Let this be a mistake from which our race will learn.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:07 | 6023960 raywolf
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Zero hope for Saxo, their software sucks ass...

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 18:42 | 6024055 Cityzerosix
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zero zero zero the opposite to nonzero there is no zero

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:28 | 6024183 Cityzerosix
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Read cityzerosix ebook it offers hope but this is an ad

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:47 | 6024251 Banananomics
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The Oracle at FEDelphi? Zero brain.

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 19:53 | 6024263 Cityzerosix
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Nobrainers need apply

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 20:08 | 6024325 Cityzerosix
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Transhumanist zerobrained humanoid malfunctions of zeroist ideologies

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 22:15 | 6024692 Youri Carma
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We have zero growth, zero inflation, zero rates, zero hedge and zero hope ;) Oh, I Got Plenty o'Nuttin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBRd_oHxFSc

Thu, 04/23/2015 - 22:31 | 6024729 Peanut Butter E...
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Rain man talks everyone listen!

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 01:49 | 6025084 AgentScruffy
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So, "zero growth" and "Zero hope" all due to a pending "mini-crisis"? 

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