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Edwards: FED’s likviditsboost bag nyt aktieboom, skaber mere ulighed

Morten W. Langer

torsdag 07. november 2019 kl. 18:21

Fra Zerohedge/ SocGen:

It’s been a year of record equity outflows…

… and yet the S&P 500 is trading at all time highs. How is that possible?

Perhaps instead of trying to explain or justify it, one should just go with the flow and indeed, Albert Edwards starts off his latest letter by pointing out the obvious: “the world has gone mad.” Here’s why:

While the simple answer why equities continue to soar even as investors liquidate their equity exposure is thanks to nearly $4 trillion in buybacks…

… Edwards finds a more apt culprit: “The surge in equity markets has come on the back of the Fed hosing liquidity into the banking system via repos and T-Bill purchases.” So is it QE or is it “not QE”? Here is Edwards snarky answer:

Remember this is not QE4, as the Fed has repeatedly assured us. Tell that to the equity market, which is certainly reacting as if it was as it as forges to new all-time highs. We have heard these Fed denials before. Remember Bernanke assured investors that QE was different to monetisation because everybody knew with certainty that the Fed was going to take all the QE back. Well, that worked well, didn’t it? 

To this all we can add is that “Not QE” is adding between $60 billion and $100 billion in liquidity every month. So, yeah, there’s that.

Ok, fine, it is QE, but is that really bad? Well, yes. Here’s Edwards:

In my opinion QE is totally discredited. I believe it had only a marginally positive impact on economic growth (mainly by driving exchange rates down, most notably in the eurozone and Japan). But the damage QE did in terms of wealth inequality compounded years of painful income inequality.

Oh, and here is the CEO of the world’s biggest hedge fund, Ray Dalio, sounding just like this website in 2009 (and every year after):

money is essentially free for those who have money and creditworthiness, it is essentially unavailable to those who don’t have money and creditworthiness, which contributes to the rising wealth, opportunity, and political gaps. Also contributing to these gaps are the technological advances that investors and the entrepreneurs that I previously mentioned are excited by in the ways I described, and that also replace workers with machines. Because the “trickle-down” process of having money at the top trickle down to workers and others by improving their earnings and creditworthiness is not working, the system of making capitalism work well for most people is broken.

Going back to Edwards, the SocGen strategist notes that “investors are desperate to believe this is a rare mid-cycle pause. The ‘markets’ write the economic narrative so the S&P’s surge to all-time highs is prompting commentary that the economy is doing just fine. No it’s not.” Not surprisingly, Edwards urges readers here to read Ray Dalio’s recent comment.

Dalio thinks the world has gone mad and if Christie’s recent auction is anything to go by, he is right. The good news: as I show inside, labour is fighting back hard to get its rightful share of national income. The bad news: the fightback has triggered a savage corporate profit margin squeeze that is already severe enough to trigger an investment-led recession.

Here Edwards points to the following chart to demonstrate where in the business cycle corporate profit margins are right now:

Of course, the fact that S&P earnings have been negative Y/Y for the past three quarters, and are expected to drop again in Q4, merely confirms this. It is also why nobody is believing the market at all time highs represents anything besides another massive liquidity injection by the Fed and, of course, continued record buybacks.

Which then brings us to the punchline – in response to Dalio, shouldn’t QE have “trickled down” at least a bit? The answer is no, as Edwards shows so vividly in the chart below, and explains: “The proverbial “Jo six-pack” isn’t stupid. He/she can fully understand how trickle-down has really worked (see slide below).

And so, in a world that is once again crushing the middle class, Edwards’ conclusion is spot on:

No wonder the US looks poised to elect another populist: Warren, Sanders or Trump – what’s the difference?

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