The global business cycle is forecastable around 4-5mo ahead and the provision of liquidity into the financial markets is forecastable around 2-3mo ahead, currently.
The onset of economic crises is much more cumbersome and uncertain to forecasts.
A short 🧵on what's coming. 1/6
The flow of aggregate financing in China sputtered in October and fell of a 'cliff' in Nov/Dec. This implied that
1) This month will see first signs of a renewed decline in econ. indicators. 2) Decline will deepen in March and April.
Thus, March and April are likely to see a both declining economic indicators and output combined with a notable decline or even a crash in market liquidity.
So, be prepared for a revived bear market and serious volatility in the financial markets in the coming months. ☝️
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Note also that any nasty geopolitical and/or economic shock could turn the volatility into a full-blown rout.
Past week I promised a (long) thread on global #liquidity and so, here goes!
I have been analyzing the current state global liquidity since early November. Then I warned on possibility of an outright collapse of market liquidity.
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Basically, I re-iterated our original warning from October 2018, when we had discovered that:
1. Global outside-US dollar denominated debt has risen to a record. 2. The role of non-bank institutions on providing funding has increased.
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3. The composition of international credit has shifted from bank loans to debt securities.
These straight-forwardly implied that:
"The increased role of non-bank institutions in providing credit means that an increasing proportion of international finance comes..."
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Everything you need to know is summarized in this graph. It shows that Chinese business (debt) cycle leads European cycle by around 3-4mo and the global business cycle by around 4-5mo.
In tight turning points (crises), with synchronous response, the lag is shorter. 2/
This relationship was revealed in 2015/2016.
In 2015 Chinese leaders tried to stabilize the economy by tightening the availability of credit especially to the manufacturing sector, which led to a slump in the Chinese housing market, which had already weakened in 2014. 3/
Seven charts to explain, why the U.S. is heading into a #recession (which is unlikely to be "mild"). 🧵
Let's start with the most problematic one: the yield curves. Many read these like the Bible, and they rarely have gotten it wrong. However, this time there's a problem.
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Our first-ever U.S. #recession call, in March 2019, predicting the beginning of an U.S. recession in early 2020, was based on the inversion of the yields of the Treasuries with 10-year and 3-month maturities.
This is depicted in the strange divergence of the 10y/3mo and 10y/2y spreads in early 2022 shown in the figure above. I explained this in detail in my @EpochOpinion piece in May.