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Jan 21 7 tweets 3 min read
RECESSION WATCH -- A short 🧵--

1) 10Yr/2Yr UST spread been inverted since 7 July '22 -

Persistent inversion has always led to recession...
2) 40% of US banks have tightened lending standards -

This has always been followed by recession and current reading implies 7%+ corporate high yield default rate by year-end...
3) YoY change in US LEIs is deeply negative -

Prior cycles suggest we are a month away from the onset of recession...
4) ISM PMI reading is recessionary -

Prior cycles suggest we are less than two months away from the onset of recession...
5) ISM New Orders in recessionary territory -

Prior cycles suggest we are less than two months away from the onset of recession...
6) The US jobs market is the last man standing but cracks are emerging (in % of states with rising unemployment).

On watch for the unemployment rate to tick higher and when it crosses above its 12-month moving average, it should coincide with the onset of recession.

- END -
P.S - These macro indicators do work

In late 2019, similar indicators were forecasting a recession in spring 2020...

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Dec 23, 2022
US Nov. core PCE price index ⬆️ 4.7% YoY (est. 4.6%)

No chance Fed will pivot, 25bps hike likely on 1 Feb '23

Fed's hands are tied, stock market will get memo soon.
Pundits keep saying stock market has already discounted the looming recession...

This doesn't seem to be correct as 2023 EPS estimate is still ~$220 (flat YoY). Recession/earnings declines haven't been priced in yet.
In Dec 2018, when Jay Powell abruptly did a U-turn and became dovish, US CPI increased by 2%YoY.

The low CPI reading enabled the Fed to pivot.

Today, the CPI is way above the Fed's mandate of 2% inflation which is why Jay Powell cannot pivot and loosen financial conditions.
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$TSLA stock is declining not because of @elonmusk 's selling or $TWTR involvement but due to the fact that the risk free rate has spiked over the past year and the economy is headed towards recession.

This is what stocks (especially auto OEMs) do during this phase of the cycle.
Nauseating to see the media and $TSLA fan boys blame @elonmusk for this decline!

Seems like these people haven't really seen the carnage (80-90% declines) in other growth stocks.

During a post bubble contraction, all stocks decline by varying degrees.
During the boom, growth stocks surge and get bid up to insane valuations.

When the monetary tide recedes, they decline more than the indices and their multiples contract significantly.

Nothing unusual about $TSLA decline, it is totally normal.
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Dec 18, 2022
1/ An important thread 🧵 -

With the deepest inversion of the yield curve in 40 years, many are wondering how severe the coming recession will be?

Lets explore this objectively...

A few years ago, The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis did some research on yield curve...
2/ inversions and it examined both the depth of the inversions as well as the real (inflation adjusted) 10-Year US Treasury Yield at the time of inversion.

The researchers concluded that the length and severity of the ensuing recession was *inversely* correlated...
3/ to the real 10-Year US Treasury Yield at the time of the yield curve inversion. i.e. the lower the real 10-Year US Treasury yield at the time of the inversion, the worse the recession.

The chart below shows this correlation....
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Dec 18, 2022
- A thread 🧵 -

$SPX bottoms during recessionary bear-markets -

Over past 50+ years, a recessionary bear market in $SPX has NEVER bottomed before initial rate cut by the Fed...In all instances (except '80), $SPX kept declining even after the initial rate cut!

Keep reading...
A) 1970 and 1974 recessionary bear market -

In both instances, $SPX declined after initial rate cut...

- Fed Funds Rate (bottom panel)
- Initial rate cut shown by blue vertical line
B) 1980 and 1982 recessionary bear market -

In 1980, $SPX bottomed with initial rate cut whereas in 1982 it kept declining after initial rate cut...

- Fed Funds Rate (bottom panel)
- Initial rate cut shown by blue vertical line
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Dec 17, 2022
US Housing Bubble - PART II

- This parabolic rise > advance leading up to 07-08 bust!
- Dallas Fed forecasting 20% decline in US home prices

20% decline in housing + bear market in stocks + job losses in '23....hard to see how this can end well!?

Chart from @ycharts
US existing home sales down ~30% over the past year*!

*This is the largest YoY decline since February 2008.

This is the same script as previous housing bubble -

1) Severe unaffordability (all-time high!)
2) Home sales tank
3) Prices decline on nationwide basis

Buckle up!
Stocks bear-market, housing bubble deflating, used car market imploding...clueless Fed still hiking and doing QT in the face of the most deeply inverted yield curve in 40 years!!!

No wonder Elon Musk is anticipating the biggest financial crisis ever...

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Dec 17, 2022
$SPX scenarios (recession vs. soft landing) -

Even if US avoids recession, $SPX is overvalued...

Chart from @LanceRoberts
Conference Board's LEI indicator flashing recession -

Morgan Stanley forecasting ~20% $SPX EPS decline in 2023 ($175 EPS vs. $220 in 2022)
20% decline in $SPX EPS is a risk to the labour market -

Based on history, unemployment likely to spike in '23...

Recession is the likely outcome.
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