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Bob Janjuah: S&P At 800, Dow/Gold Ratio Will Hit 1 Before Next Real Bull Cycle

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Bob Janjuah, who has been quiet lately (recall his last piece in which he quite honestly told everyone that "Markets Are So Rigged By Policy Makers That I Have No Meaningful Insights To Offer"), is out with his latest, in which he gives us not only his long-term preview, "ultimately I still fear and expect the S&P500 – as the global risk-on/risk-off proxy – to trade at 800, and the Dow/Gold ratio to hit parity (currently at 8, down from an all-time high of 45 in late 1999) before we can begin the next multi-decade bull cycle", but also his checklist of 8 things to look forward to in the short-term centrally-planned future.

From Nomura's Bob Janjuah

Please sir, can I have some more?

The current monetary policy settings in the US and Europe – which in my last note I dubbed monetary anarchy – continue to drive markets. While some may feel that central bank behaviour and experimental policies designed largely to boost markets is a good and desirable thing, I have little doubt that such ‘economic policies’ are already sowing the seeds of our next economic and markets malaise. I continue to believe strongly in the view that central bankers are intentionally mispricing the cost of capital, in an attempt to push the private sector to misallocate capital into consumption and into asset purchases at the wrong time and at the wrong price. Eras of such marked misallocations of capital normally end with bubbles that burst significantly. Central banks have shown us, time and again, that they are extremely good at driving bubble formation, that they are extremely good at denying their real motivations, and that they are extremely good at denying the existence of bubbles. History of course also shows us, over and over again, that bubbles are the direct consequence of central bankers mispricing capital, and history of course shows us that central bankers are largely impotent when it comes to preventing the significant bursting of said bubbles.

I think pump-and-dump policies, which have driven the Western cycles of print/borrow/consume over the last 20 years – and in particular over the last 10 years – are an undeniable economic failure. What is even more concerning to me is that, even after everything we have been through, the policymaker solution for our current sickness is more of the same – more debt, more liquidity, and more consumption! The West is in the midst of a multi-year era of declining living standards, in large part as a direct consequence of central bankers and their bubble blowing machines. I think sometimes those focused on markets and how to make the next buck out of the Fed/ECB ‘put’ should remember that, for example, it is at least in some part as a direct consequence of the Greenspan and then the Bernanke policy ‘puts’ that tens of millions of American citizens are either homeless and/or on food stamps. When the current post-2008/09 bubbles burst, central bank ‘puts’ and the arrogance we perceive that still persists in some parts of the financial sector will hopefully be consigned to the deep freeze box for a very long time.

Moving onto the more tangible near term:

1 – The extremely bullish seasonal and weather factors that in my view have artificially boosted (US) data over the 3-4 months to end-March are now over, and over the next 3-4 months are I feel instead going to be a material drag. It has already started, and by late Q2/early Q3 the eco bulls will I feel, once again, be left scratching their heads. For 2012, trend growth in the US will, in my opinion, be closer to 1.5% than 2.5%.

2 – The US consumer is in a weak and vulnerable position. Savings have been run down, to worryingly low levels, house prices are still falling, but the jobs picture is already turning down and gasoline prices are up nearly 20% from the December lows – and rising.

3 – The earnings season, which is about to start, will in my view be average at best – and this is merely a continuation of an already weakening trend, where weakness is actually quite significant outside of a very small single handful of individual companies.

4 – Now that we have moved on from the systemic crisis in the eurozone, it is now becoming clear to an increasing number of people that we have merely swapped a dramatic V-shaped collapse-followed-by recovery for a long-drawn-out period of weak growth. In my view, the eurozone will – at best – contribute nothing to global growth, perhaps for the next 3 to 5 years. If Spain ends up as the next Greece, then the picture will, in my view, be much worse.

5 – China is definitely ‘landing’, and policy easing is well behind the street’s expectations. I continue to have little doubt that China is transitioning from a 10% growth economy to a 7% growth economy this year. And over the next 3-5 years, that growth rate could be closer to 5% or less. I remain concerned at how little focus is given to the very poor demographics in China, and I remain concerned at how little focus there is on the state of the ‘banking’ balance sheet in China, and on the true levels of underlying indebtedness that exists in the Chinese economy.

6 – Over the next quarter or two I think there is unlikely to be any more money magic from the ECB – unless of course Spain really implodes. But in my view the market seems transfixed by Bernanke and his throw away promises. I remain convinced that we will NOT see any new real QE this year. Why? Simply put, more QE in the US would merely take gasoline prices up, perhaps by another 20%. This would, in my view, guarantee an abrupt halt to growth in the US and would likely ensure an Obama electoral defeat. This is not an outcome that Bernanke would desire. So at best, either in the June or July meeting, we will get some form of TWIST.

7 – Over the next few weeks we could see the ratings agencies move towards a wholesale downgrading of the global banking sector, driven by the application of new ratings methodologies. The markets seem extremely complacent on this issue.

8 – I assume no international military conflict in Iran.

So in essence, reflecting the economic truism that is ‘MV = YP’, I still see a world and markets more driven by the ‘M’ rather than the ‘V’ – and in Q2, more shots of ‘M’ are going to be elusive and ultimately what will actually be delivered will fall well short of market expectations. Also in Q2 the data (earnings and economic) will likely be weak. And in particular, the consumer is going to struggle and will I think be forced to re-save. Put all this together and I think in Q2 we should expect a nice 10% equity sell-off, with the S&P500 falling from 1420 (+/-20) to 1280 (+/-20). Credit should continue the sell-off of the last few weeks (iTraxx Crossover up at 750/800), and rates should rally with 10-year UST yields back below 2%, perhaps even down at 1.75%.

As we get later into Q2 I think the shrill promises of more fixes of ‘M’ from Bernanke will get loud, and many investors remain underweight risk, having missed out on Q1. As such, the expected correction should not exceed 10%. Over late Q2 and Q3, we could – likely should – see another leg higher in risk, driven by TWIST. This shot of ‘M’ may have a very short half-life in terms of boosting markets – four to six months perhaps – with the presidential elections clearly being the target. Much beyond early Q4 I think things will look extremely challenging, with the lack of self-sustaining growth/end demand, the lack of growth in Europe, weakening EM growth and the US fiscal debate being the key agenda items. I continue to believe that while equity prices may surprise on the upside in Q3/into the US elections, late Q4/early 2013 and the (lack of) growth and US fiscal stories could herald the next stage of the post-2008/09 ‘M’ bubble, i.e., the next major equity bear market.

Clearly fiscal and central bank activism and experimentation have, to date, succeeded in stretching out the cycle, but ultimately I still fear and expect the S&P500 – as the global risk-on/risk-off proxy – to trade at 800, and the Dow/Gold ratio to hit parity (currently at 8, down from an all-time high of 45 in late 1999) before we can begin the next multi-decade bull cycle. I think the battle between central bank inflationist policies and the natural cycle of deflationary debt deleveraging will continue to be attritional, and it may drag well into 2013 and 2014. I do however remain hopeful that in the next 12-24 months we will see both the basis form for the next major multi-year cycle of global economic development and we will see risk asset valuations at truly ‘once in a lifetime’ cheap levels. We are not yet at this point.

 

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Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:06 | 2330680 Robot Traders Mom
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You'll be on your knees soon enough, Blythe...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:21 | 2330693 Straying from t...
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We can only hope that the paper tower has enough spark beneath it to burn the whole thing to the ground.  When they start publicly denying it, they are running scared.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:33 | 2330710 GetZeeGold
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If Spain ends up as the next Greece, then the picture will, in my view, be much worse.

 

Spain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal.........I really don't have a favorite. Whoever makes it first.....I'm good with it.

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:40 | 2330719 Badabing
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Gold bitchez!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:01 | 2330767 BoNeSxxx
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I think there is a broad unwritten assumption being made here with respect to the multi-decade bull cycle to follow -- namely that at some point while at or near the bottom the Goats wrangle the Sheep into dispatching the money changers and ridding the planet of their ilk forever.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:42 | 2330884 goldfish1
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A Further Downside Run in Gold and Gold Stocks is Coming! Here’s Why -- Posted Monday, 9 April 2012 

By Nu Yu, Ph.D.

Chart looks very convincing.

http://news.goldseek.com/GoldSeek/1333976700.php

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:22 | 2330694 Oh regional Indian
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Gots to be kidding. Multi-decade Bull Cycle?

Well, after a multi-decade Bullshit cycle I think we can expect a multi-decade stink!!!

I call bull-shit. try multi week bull cycle before the beeg dump.

It's all over bar the shouting and the hiss-trionics.

ori

/truth-about-america

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:41 | 2330720 Koffieshop
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They MIGHT be able to keep inflating the pig up until 2020 but not further.
We are all going back to an agricultural society, unless some technological miracle occurs.
http://www.truthistreason.net/peak-civilization-mit-club-of-rome-predict...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:51 | 2330747 Oh regional Indian
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Thanks for the link Koffie.......Club of Rome, the name says it all. And a resource controlled techocracy is the plan. And MIT is probably in on it.

In fact, the net is a huge data-feed into the Club of Rome model, which is why they cannot kill it.

ori

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:00 | 2330764 Gully Foyle
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Koffieshop

"We are all going back to an agricultural society, unless some technological miracle occurs."

You mean those technological miracles kept under wraps because they either destroy profit margins or destabilize the present power structures?

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:24 | 2330829 duo
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wiithout fossil fuels, the carrying capacity of the US farmland would be about 50 million decently-fed.  25% of the land needs to be set aside to feed your draft animals.

Now you know what the 450M .40 cal hollow-points are for.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:27 | 2330840 Gully Foyle
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duo

Just about what organic farming would bring in.


Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:35 | 2330865 easypoints
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Without fossil fuels, you won't be going to work either. That leaves enough time for organic farming on one of America's stupidest obsessions: Grass lawns.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:26 | 2331504 PersonalRespons...
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one of America's stupidest obsessions: Grass lawns.

+1000

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:51 | 2331593 DosZap
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one of America's stupidest obsessions: Grass lawns.

 The taxpayer is paying for the repairs, and care of the lawns, and shrubs,trees,landscaping,home interior repairs, etc, unti they find a suck, er buyer.Even more stupid is Fannie n Freddie have 200k empty homes, and the American How do you like that lil factoid, your paying for foreclosed homes repairs and lawn maintenace.............some shit is just to unreal to believe.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:43 | 2331570 DosZap
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Now you know what the 450M .40 cal hollow-points are for.

Useless unless your a sheeple.......................

A handgun is what you use to fight your way to a rifle.

Guess they think that will take the place of several hundred billion rifle rounds purchased like a mutha since '94?.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:52 | 2331605 i-dog
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They're for close encounters of the roadblock and riot kind...not for great plains warfare! It's DHS, not the army. How many drivers / protesters / rioters will be toting AKs and 50cals?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:56 | 2331629 DosZap
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 How many drivers / protesters / rioters will be toting AKs and 50cals?

A ton, if they want to live.

You dont carry a AR, or a AK in your vehicles??................shame on you.

No need for .50's..............................just something with a little edge on range.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:24 | 2331672 i-dog
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"wiithout fossil fuels, the carrying capacity of the US farmland would be about 50 million decently-fed"

Where do people dream up these numbers? The US population in 1900 (back in the days of steam locomotives, horse-drawn ploughs and less productive food strains) was 76 million, and it was exporting food to the world!!

The first diesel tractor came out in 1935 (population: 128 million).

From Wiki: " In 1892, John Froelich invented and built the first gasoline/petrol-powered tractor in Clayton County, Iowa, USA.[5][6] After receiving a patent Froelich started up the Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company, investing all of his assets which by 1895, all would be lost and his business resigned to become a failure."

Oh, and BTW, fertilizers (phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen and trace minerals) don't come from oil.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 20:42 | 2333275 Errol
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i-dog wrote:

"Oh, and BTW, fertilizers (phosphorus, potassium, nitrogen and trace minerals) don't come from oil."

Where do they come from?  Nitrogen from nat gas (Haber-Bosch process), phosphorous and potassium from depleting mines.

Even 1860's US food production was not sustainable!  Literally billions of passenger pigeons were killed and eaten.  4-guage shotguns were used to kill "sitting ducks" a score at a time.  Nitrogen and phosphorous came from Chillean and Pacific island guano, now almost totally depleted.  Potassium came from burning New England forests just to harvest the ash (look it up!).

Due to topsoil erosion and depletion of guano resources, without fossil fuels the US can feed less people than it could in 1900!

As Gail Tverburg (an actuary) puts it in dry actuarial terms, "There will be excess deaths".

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 21:44 | 2333318 i-dog
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What have "depleting mines" or "nitrogen from nat gas" (ie. methane) got to do with my statement "from oil"?

Oil doesn't now, and never will, replace phosphates from guano resources or potassium from wood ash*...other solutions are needed. It is a common misconception that fertilizers come from petroleum.

I agree that "there will be excess deaths" -- from the 310 million bloated bottom feeders of today -- but not [just] because of oil.

What I questioned was the "50 million" estimate of a sustainable US population -- in a world where both food and luxuries are traded between nations that can produce one or the other, or both...just as the US was feeding Europe in return for luxuries a century ago.

 

* [edit] From wiki: 

" Potash /?p?tæ?/ is the common name for various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form.[1] In some rare cases, potash can be formed with traces of organic materials such as plant remains, and this was the major historical source for it before the industrial era."

 

"The main food sources of phosphorus are kinds of food containing protein, for example, milk and meat."

Sat, 04/21/2012 - 13:29 | 2363745 AustriAnnie
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I think maybe the point was that regardless of where the fertilizers come from, they have to be mined and then transported, which in itself is energy consuming.

The other major factor that people tend to ignore is that it doesn't matter how much we can produce going back to an oil-less production process.  It isn't about physical production, but about politics.

If anyone thinks that the government won't nationalize or at least regulate to the point of complete misallocation, all of the ag land and resources needed to farm it, you're dreaming.

We live in a different world than in the 19th century.  By executive order, the land you use to produce the food (or at least the food you produce on the land) will belong to the state, not to you.  Attempts to avoid government controls in allocation of resources will mean you discover the meaning of NDAA up close and personal.  

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 17:02 | 2332810 newworldorder
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Without OIL you end up at around 1830's 1860's economics. That means very localized production, storage and consumption. Your 50 million may be a bit high.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:53 | 2330922 grid-b-gone
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Cheap oil not only allowed greater yields per acre, but also let us get affordable food from thousands of miles away.

As the price of oil climbs, fertilizer will still be used, but more local production will be needed to eliminated the transportation component of food production. 

Small, urban farms are already making it by catering to organic and heirloom market niches.

Backyard gardens eliminate even more of the oil component of food production. Don't rule out the possibility of a hybrid agri-techno solution in which tele-commuting and a home-based agrarian lifestyle merge to allow a solution without hunger, turmoil, or catastrophy.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:29 | 2331086 Koffieshop
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This would be the best-case scenario and I really hope this happens.
Still, a lot of people are going to die before things could stabilize like this. We'll still have the peak-industry chaos.

Sat, 04/21/2012 - 13:35 | 2363757 AustriAnnie
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"Don't rule out the possibility of a hybrid agri-techno solution in which tele-commuting and a home-based agrarian lifestyle merge to allow a solution without hunger, turmoil, or catastrophy."

And what do TPTB get to steal from us if we are all self-sufficient?

A self-sufficient populace does not make banks rich not does it make the people "need" the politicians to save us.  Therein lies the problem.  Its never about what is good for each individual.  And the scenario you describe does not appear to be one of expanding debt/credit, which is the source of power/control for TPTB.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:03 | 2330770 Koffieshop
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And also this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOMWzjrRiBg A thorough explanation of the inevitable resource depletion.
Could the person who downgraded me (and prevented me from editing the post) explain why he thinks that this is bullshit? I'm curious about counter-arguments.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:16 | 2330804 Gully Foyle
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Koffieshop

"Could the person who downgraded me"

Up/down voting is just another form of control. The weak care about the public perception of who they are and will correct their ways.

Meanwhile the rest of barely even recognize names.

It isn't like we will be attending the kids graduation, now is it?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:32 | 2330860 Koffieshop
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Oh believe me, I'm not looking for public approval. I AM looking for someone to argue with.

You said there may be technological breakthroughs that are kept secret. Even if you assume this is true (and those breakthroughs drastically improve the efficiency of travel and production) we are still fucked. We will just continue to grow exponentially until we hit a new limit. As explained in the movie I posted, improving the efficiency of resource use just makes us use more of it, not less.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:40 | 2330879 Gully Foyle
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Koffieshop

"Even if you assume this is true (and those breakthroughs drastically improve the efficiency of travel and production) we are still fucked. We will just continue to grow exponentially until we hit a new limit."

I'm not certain it happens that way. I think new technologies arise to circumvent new limits.

I think that is one of the signs of a technologically superior society, limits are continually expanded and broken.

It's hard to tell since we are the only dominant species we know and have a very tiny window of technology.

Knowledge is ever increasing. Modern mankinds problem is we think we understand everything. When in fact we understand very little.

I'm not even being optimistic, I've just watched a lot of change over the years and a lot of assumptions shot down.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:48 | 2330889 easypoints
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Man cannot innovate a path to infinite growth, without defeating the laws of thermodynamics. We will certainly do our best to do so, as the stakes are pretty big.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:12 | 2331717 MunX
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The laws of thermodynamics only apply to closed systems. Earth is not a closed system. Oh and guess what, there has never been a law in science that hasn't been broken.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:51 | 2330919 goldfish1
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a technologically superior society, limits are continually expanded and broken.

Technology is very expensive.

It's kinda like genetically engineered plants. "Gonna save so much time and feed the world." Need more equipment, herbicide, seed expense. Poisons the people, water, bees. Longer term effects create long term medical issues and expense. Increases the need for stronger herbicides. Cycle repeat.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:53 | 2330881 easypoints
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Correct. There were some inventions, like the water-injected carburetor, that could have tripled or quodrupled our gas efficiency back in 1950. Shell killed some whistle-blowers, seccured the patent, and burried it. At this point in the game, implementing any new technology or infrastructure will be difficult, especially with an insolvent government. Localization, particularly in food production, is already baked in the cake at this point. But don't hold your breath. The Gov knows that a mob of protesters in fear of starvation is the only type of mob that changes anything.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:23 | 2330823 francis_sawyer
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I didn't downgrade you but... 'Club of Rome'?... Seriously?? CLUB OF ROME???

Here's how a CLUB OF ROME thesis plays out...

1. Make a prediction about resource depletion & population reduction

2. Spray the atmosphere with chemtrails for a decade

3. People die off

4. Club of Rome (Rockefeller, Kissinger, Gates, Clinton, Gore, etc.) all remain as kings & custodians

~~~

Neat gig if you can get it

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:53 | 2330924 Koffieshop
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Killing people would only slightly delay the inevitable, even of they psychopathic enough to think about that it should have occurred to them that it is pointless.
The only meaningful and inevitable thing that can occur right now is the destruction of the system that depends on perpetual growth.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:19 | 2330819 NewWorldOrange
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The only technological miracle that'll keep us from going back to an agricultural society is the "miracle" of a hundred million sheeple waking up and putting their personal weapons technology to its proper use.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:20 | 2331712 smiler03
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Poppycock.

Meanwhile the Worlds oil resources continue to run out. I can't see guns filling in the energy gap somehow unless said guns end up significantly reducing the population. Unless that's what you meant? Also, I thought the main protagonists of Gun Control say that "weapons" are for self defence, not killing.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:43 | 2330891 goldfish1
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We are all going back to an agricultural society, unless some technological miracle occurs.

Is there an ap for that?

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:45 | 2330732 Sudden Debt
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After we hit rock bottom, go through that and slide deeper into the earths core, I to believe we'll start a new bull cycle. In about 15 to 20 years from now.... When we're old guys...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:14 | 2331004 gaoptimize
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The Kurzweil Singularity is the light at the end of the very dark tunnel we approach.

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 15:46 | 2355810 Bwahaha WAGFDSMB
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Unless we go the way of the Mayans first.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:12 | 2330793 GeezerGeek
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Can there really be a bull cycle - or a bear cycle - if market forces are eradicated? The current U.S. administration is doing its best to eliminate free market forces while picking 'winners' (GM, Solyndra) and forcing others (think the coal industry) into a corner. It appears that Obama and friends are intent on imposing a command economy while destroying the middle class and enslaving most of the population. Call it fascism if you will, but the question I have is this: can a stock market exist in any real sense when all is done at the behest of the government? Did Nazi Germany have a stock market? What about the Soviet Union? (Apologies to younger U.S. readers who were not told about those countries while undergoing public [re]education.)

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:55 | 2330752 Gully Foyle
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Does anyone track their predictions like Market Ticker?

I see a lot of people making predictions, but few (if any) coming to pass.

I wonder what the hot air to got it right ratio is.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:57 | 2330758 Gully Foyle
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-recovery-is-here-reports-underemplo...

'The Recovery Is Here,' Reports Underemployed Man Making $20,000 Less Than He Used To

CARBONDALE, IL—Citing the fact that he's now able to make the minimum payment on his credit cards each month and is back in the workforce making $20,000 less than when he was laid off in 2009, 43-year-old Tom Baker declared Tuesday that the economy was recovering by leaps and bounds. "The tide is turning!" said the man who had to sell his four-bedroom home for less than what he owed on it and move his wife and three children to a cramped apartment 800 miles away. "My company just hired 50 skilled contract employees with a guaranteed eight months of paid employment. America is back!" Baker said that if the economic turnaround continues, he may be able to save enough money to send at least one of his children in for a dental checkup.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:17 | 2330814 GeezerGeek
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Grabbing the tail of the elephant, the blind man proclaimed that an elephant is just like a snake.

Wed, 04/18/2012 - 13:54 | 2355416 skepticCarl
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Geezer, it's a freak'n satire.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:09 | 2330682 realtick
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The Dow-Gold ratio will go way below 1:

http://chart.ly/o5ck9k2

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:27 | 2330699 AllWorkedUp
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 Well that DOW/GOLD ratio can hurry up already. I hope the whole thing crashes and burns, In the mean time AAPL and PCLN go up everyday.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:53 | 2330750 realtick
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Both had outside days yesterday so their panic uptrends are now in question:

http://chart.ly/vehyoxs

http://chart.ly/n5m9cxq

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:56 | 2330756 Gully Foyle
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AllWorkedUp

I hope the Russians or Chinese start mining Gold on the moon or in the asteroids.

Fuck it, I just hope someone strikes a huge vein so I can laugh when it drops as low as tin.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:04 | 2330774 Pladizow
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Beavis is that you?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:09 | 2330980 SilverRhino
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Idiot.   While it is commerically viable (over 30 years) there is that little thing called the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty that specifcally bans that type of activity.  

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:25 | 2331770 smiler03
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The Geneva Conventions forbid torturing. That worked out well.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:06 | 2331218 Winston Churchill
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From that chart,it looks like the mean is about 5.

Assuming a 50% reduction in the stock "market",that gets

us a sell point in the 7500 to 15000 USD range allowing for a

temporary over reaction and price overshoot.

Thanks for the chart.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:13 | 2330684 AssFire
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I'm thinking 4500 bottom then 6000 for the 1:1

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:15 | 2330686 cossack55
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A little too hopey-changey there at the end.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:16 | 2330802 WonderDawg
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No doubt. He pretty much ignores the fact that we are in the middle of a global financial crisis, the likes of which the world has never seen. His assumptions completely ignore the odds of multiple Euro sovereign time bombs, and the inevitable war with Iran.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 19:40 | 2333152 Think for yourself
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basically he's doing the best he can without swallowing the red pill.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:15 | 2330687 orangegeek
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All markets are irrational.  They are driven by human emotion and there's nothing rational about that.  True, there needs to exist some underlying fundamentals, but the degree to which markets can swing from what is rational is.....limitless.

Why limitless?  Because the madness of crowds knows no bounds.

Forecasting market indexes is a sound way of measuring human emotion.

 

www.bullandbearmash.com/index/sp-500/

 

Whether it's JPM or Goldman or they guy in his basement, all humans experience the same emotions.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:05 | 2330776 Pladizow
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I didnt know algos had emotions!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:17 | 2330810 GMadScientist
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Is rigged an emotion?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:18 | 2330689 bb5
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Why does everyone assume the plutocrats want Obama to win? He does not bow down before Israel as well as the Republicans do.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:24 | 2330695 francis_sawyer
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He does what he's told to do... They all do...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:18 | 2330815 GMadScientist
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Count the carriers off Iran and say that again.

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:27 | 2330938 sof_hannibal
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Hahaha. Mitt and Obama both do what they are told; that is, put on a good show so nobody notices the looting of the USA treasury. They can put 2 more battle groups in the Gulf, but I am more convinced then ever that there will be no -- US involvement (direct) regarding any military action against Iran; unless Israel tells Obama (or Mitt) to jump.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:33 | 2330856 GeezerGeek
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Assuming that 'the plutocrats' exist - a point on which most on ZH seem to agree - can we safely assume that they are unified in outlook? Any group can, and probably will, have factions disagreeing with each other on subsidiary issues. The leaders of the American Revolution had a common goal - independence - but various factions had different ideas about what to do once independence was achieved. The Nazis had an immediate goal of achieving power. Once that was accomplished they had to purge certain elements of the Nazi party. Same with the Bolshevik takeover of Russia. People like Lenin and Stalin didn't play well with other erstwhile allies once power was attained.

Who is to say that they are all Zionists or pro-Israel? Some of them may be pro-Sunni or more specifically pro-Wahabism. Or pro-Isis/Osiris. Not being one of them, I can't tell.

Addressing GMasScientist, whose reply preceded mine: Would not the House of Saud be as glad to see the Iranian Shia regime brought down as would Israel?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:19 | 2330690 GeneMarchbanks
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'8 – I assume no international military conflict in Iran.'

Ransquawk:

'Iraq oil exports via Turkey halt on sabotage according to Oil Ministry'

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ND11Ak02.html

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:20 | 2330692 realtick
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The Dow - PPI ratio shows how ridiculously overvalued the paper stock market is relative to real things:

http://chart.ly/6qyu5hm

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:30 | 2330702 Confundido
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Bob is totally ignoring the Spanish problem. He thinks "we have moved on from the systemic crisis in the eurozone"...while we have only kicked the fucking can down the proverbial road....

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:49 | 2330713 GetZeeGold
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Something's wrong in Euroland?

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:05 | 2330778 francis_sawyer
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@Confundido

The way it read to me, it looked like he was working on a US2012ELECTIONCENTRIC model... Frankly ~ it was kind of boring...

As for Spain ~ all I can possibly say is this... The first major signs with regards to Greece (vis-a-vis default) were more than 2 years ago (publicly)... If they managed to kick the can that long I'm sure even with a half-life of Spain can kicking, it takes is thru November...

Yawn... Keep stacking (& stop driving)... 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:17 | 2330805 SheepDog-One
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And the can came to a stop immediately.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:31 | 2330704 VonManstein
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the DOW doesnt need to fall much for this to happen. 10,000 gold?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:37 | 2330714 Catullus
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mv=yp? the p was defined as "price level" which no one has yet to figure out.

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:37 | 2330716 WallStreetVet
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Bob has been wrong for many years now, which is why he's moved firms. He's a publicity man who gets attention for the firm via his bearish calls. He is a marketing man. Beware

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:08 | 2330784 francis_sawyer
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Bingo ~

He's kind of like 'Prechter' without all that EWI voodoo (who change wave counts more often than RobotTrader blows hot & cold on yesterdays chart movements)...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:42 | 2330721 rsnoble
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"not surprised if equities rise in Q3 ahead of the election"

Wow. Me either.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:46 | 2330734 Yardfarmer
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does he actually get paid for this? 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:58 | 2330942 Stuck on Zero
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I missed it, too.  Was there some information here? 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:48 | 2330741 Deep79
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I like Bob, but anyone who gives predictions this precise is a fool

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 08:53 | 2330749 newstreet
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O.K. This is the guy who told us to short the S&P at 1000 - 370 handles ago.  That ranks right up there with the ZH calls to sell BAC at 5 and buy cocoa at the highs.

Man. I miss Robotrader.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:14 | 2330799 SheepDog-One
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Well, we know for sure these guys are rarely ever right with their predictions, and none of them really see the big picture. They just call for a market level expectation, then it surely will be better later. Fascism sucks, no matter what a rigged index says.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:03 | 2330775 TooBearish
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ANother perma bear waiting for armegeddon...recon Normura not short 100BIL in CDX

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:04 | 2330779 imsaul0968
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I think people forget the demographics argument when combined with fed easy money, they dont have to be easy forever, only for another 8 years until the next gen of people the size of baby boomers really hit the workforce to rebalance social sec,etc, so the gold bull has lots of room to run regardless of how the world hates gold right now.....print, coast, print, coast, thats how it will go. When a car is driving generally uphill, it requires the driver to continue to use the gas pedal or it will head back dwnhill o dont get ucked into buffett stupidity, how well a performer has he been for the last 10 years? Hes a great bull mkt strategist, arent we all!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:07 | 2330783 eddiebe
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Well yes sure it could play like that, but it could just as easily play out with gold/S&P parity at 8000. As the author stated in his earlier piece about market manipultation. We can assume that the banksters want more of everything, with Ben and his brethern at the spigot. Question really is: How do they go about it? I'm with the likes of Sinclair and Faber on this one: They will print to continue the wealth transfer. Therefore both stocks and gold will rise relative to all fiat.

 Of course part of the scam are periodic shake outs to keep everyone unbalanced and confused.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:11 | 2330791 francis_sawyer
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I used to buy into the Gold/Dow 1:1 idea...

Nowadays, I'm more wondering how that's going to work if the dollar collapses or gets re-valued...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:29 | 2330851 Dr. Engali
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I'm thinking the dow gold will hit parity arond 6000, unless they keep this madness up to support the markets. If that is the case gold will run much higher as they are getting diminishing market returns on dollar printing.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:11 | 2330788 SheepDog-One
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Seriously? Calling for 800 S&P before we rocket off to the next multi-decade bull market....these guys pine for the good times too desperately. We're screwed, and its not an index price that makes fascism any better for you and me.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:13 | 2330797 francis_sawyer
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I've never done this before, but one ought to do a YEN/GOLD ratio chart to see what the next 25 years might look like if they manage to keep kicking the can & keep the sheep entertained...

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:14 | 2330801 SheepDog-One
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Fascist tyranical dictatorship is not fun for anyone, no matter what an index level is.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:31 | 2330853 bshirley1968
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So right, Dog.  I agree with everything this guy says.....for the most part........until we reach the statement about how after the melt-down we somehow start the game all over again, growth from SOMEWHERE in SOMETHING for SOMEONE magically returns and we start a new "bull market".  Give me a break!  Screw growth!  Growth leads to slavery as the sheeple are convinced that without "x" they somehow can't have a meaninful, happy life and start working overtime to pay for the loan they took out to buy "x".  If we finally get this thing to implode, lets hope we learned some lessons like there are more important things in the world than "bull markets".

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:51 | 2330918 Spastica Rex
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Why do you hate Capitalism, Ayn Rand, and Jesus?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:27 | 2331508 GoingLoonie
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Capitalism?  I have not seen Capitalism for decades in the US.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 16:56 | 2332795 Lost Wages
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Ayn Rand was an Atheist, so she hates Jesus too.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 19:44 | 2333161 Think for yourself
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funniest comment of the year so far

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:14 | 2330798 grid-b-gone
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 Correct statement -

  "I continue to believe strongly in the view that central bankers are intentionally mispricing the cost of capital, in an attempt to push the private sector to misallocate capital into consumption and into asset purchases at the wrong time and at the wrong price."

Net outflows from private accounts indicate the strategy has had limited success. Credit, in part, the internet. Although much bad information can be quickly distributed, it also only takes one knowledgeable person and a keyboard to counter a well-constructed, well-connected, back room plan that would have been easily implemented two decades ago.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:20 | 2330820 apberusdisvet
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TPTB already know the future, it has been pre-planned.  The current emerging police state should be a big clue; the incremental destruction of the Bill of Rights is almost complete.  The 2nd Amendment problem will be handled quite easily through nationalization of all ammo and gun producers.  Race riots will be subtely encouraged as a distraction.  The current systematic PM manipulation is another clue.  Previously they allowed the gold price to stair step higher; now the price is frozen within a limited range.  Obama will be re-elected, voter fraud will be epidemic.  The issue of Obama's illegitimacy will be immaterial.

We're so totally FUCKED

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:33 | 2330861 GMadScientist
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TPTB: 1 You: 0 in a quick forfeit.

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:26 | 2330834 monopoly
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No matter the merits of Bob's letter, it is obvious that these markets are not "free" as they used to be, up and down on economic cycles and business news and developments. So why bother. To make a few pennies or dollars, just to lose it again a week later. Nope, not gonna go there. I will just sit here on the sidelines, day after day until reality sets in. One week, one month or a year or more. It wil happen. The Fed and govt. are NOT bigger than the markets. And our markets are global. At some point it will right itself and then we can invest.

Until then I just keep making the same phone call. Fed EX driver and us are on real good terms. :)

And one small positive note all: HUFF POST


Wells Fargo Slapped With $3.1 Million Fine For 'Reprehensible' Handling Of One Mortgage

that is 1 mortgage. 

 

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 09:47 | 2330903 SheepDog-One
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'Markets' are totaly controlled by criminal banksters, so what good does it do to read the market level tea leaves? At this point, its all totaly irrelevant.

It makes me laugh, these people that look at charts and explain where theyll go next when all theyve done for years is pump in fake money and build a totaly fake market, based on 0% free money. How anyone can take any of it seriously at all is fascinating human behavioral lab.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:19 | 2331024 BeerGoggles
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So, gold will come down to $800 then?

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 12:21 | 2331490 GoingLoonie
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He said DOW / Gold at parity, not S&P.

I am looking for $6,000 / oz.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:36 | 2331117 The Beam
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They say Gold, Guns, and God. I have the gold (and silver), I have the guns (and ammo), all I need is a a good priest (but typically I'll leave the God part to the unprepared).

That, and my hot Belarusian wife.....cause what is living through the choas worth if I still can't have sex!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:40 | 2331128 Silveramada
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one (1) Half oz gold eagle will buy you the DOW before the end of the decade, maybe for a short period of time, but it will do it. Also, 30 to 50 oz of gold or 500 to 700 oz of silver WILL BUY YOU A MEDIAN HOME IN US before the end of this decade as well...so, keep stacking that shiny stuff

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 10:59 | 2331194 onelight
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I like to run all these things through the George filter, or WWGS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4&feature=related

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:08 | 2331229 Shizzmoney
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The US consumer is in a weak and vulnerable position. Savings have been run down, to worryingly low levels, house prices are still falling, but the jobs picture is already turning down and gasoline prices are up nearly 20% from the December lows – and rising.

+infinity, Bobby Bear

The mere fact that 99% of the mainstream media does NOT acknowledge this, proves to me that this is only accelerating.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:34 | 2331314 KandiRaverHipster
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nothing about the upcoming Diablo 3 release?!

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 11:45 | 2331343 nbsharma
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great post.

Tue, 04/10/2012 - 13:08 | 2331696 Clowns on Acid
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Bob almost hit the nail on the head. Comparing the price of gold to the Dow (or S&P) is a perilous thing given the stranglehold the central banks have on paper pricxes.

One really should look at the units of exchange between countries / trading partners. What is backing the "full faith and credit" of the fiat currencies today? The answer is - a Printing Press.

This condition cannot continue...Gold is a defacto currency (apologies to Princeton PhDs.). Gold is a liquid , cross border, hard asset that can be used to store value on an international basis. Silver similarly, howvever with a few qualifications.

Given the irredeemable amount of fiat sloshing around in the world today, unless one supports a barter system based on a basket of commodities  a hybrid gold standard will be required to maintain any sense of order in Int'l trade.

Bernanke's position on gold, as ridiculously naive (stupid? ...purposefully dishonest?) as it is, has painted the Fed into such a perilous corner, that the gold trade wil be truly parabolic when it hits.

Timing..? Impossible to forecast, given the Bernanke gold position, but .."in a stunning development China, Russia, Brazil, and 25 other traqde surplus nationas have told Bernanke that they have valued the USD vs Gold at $5,000/oz, and will expect either payment in USD based on that price or accept gold bars in lieu of". 

 

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