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Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2010 Oct 31, 2010 - 09:31 AM GMT

By: Nadeem_Walayat

Stock-Markets

Diamond Rated - Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe stock market is holding up well into the U.S. mid-term elections, clearly the Fed is fighting to support stocks against a due technical correction from overbought levels after the strong bull run of the past 2 months. Market manipulation is nothing new, it has been around since the birth of the stock markets and their insurance precursors, current market manipulations have their roots in the 1987 crash when the Fed stepped in to Push the Dow UP from another pre-open 250 point crash (15%) (1987 Crash Trading).


The U.S. Economy put in an annualised 2% GDP growth rate for Q3, which continues to confound a string of academic economists and the BlogosFear that have been patiently waiting all year for the double dip recession to make an appearance. My analysis conclusions remain unchanged dating back a year that there will be no double dip recession, in fact the UK economy continues to deliver a boom for 2010 by being on target to achieve the forecast growth rate of 2.8% (Inflation Mega-trend Ebook - Free Download)

QE2 is all a buzz right across the media-sphere, as the Fed is expected to print money to inflate the U.S. Economy by means of monetizing government debt , and thereby driving asset prices such as stocks higher. Though this is nothing new, as the print money to inflate asset prices mechanism has been in place and implemented both overtly and covertly since March 2009 (15 Mar 2009 - Stealth Bull Market Follows Stocks Bear Market Bottom at Dow 6,470 ). Whether QE2 works or does not work, does not matter, what matters is as I have pointed out several times over the past year that once QE starts it does not stop whilst large government budget deficits exist, therefore we are looking at a decade of QE in the U.S. and much of the rest of the world. That is a decade of real-terms inflation expectations that is waiting to be priced into the asset markets!

My last in depth analysis concluded in the following trend expectation for the stock market into January 2011 (18 Oct 2010 - Stocks Stealth Bull Market Dow Trend Forecast into Jan 2011 )

Quick Update- As mentioned above, the Dow is being held up quite successfully into the U.S. elections, this implies that the subsequent rate of decent could be more swift so as to converge inline with the mid November target of 10,500 and 10,700, another possibility is a later low.

U.S. Treasury Bonds Double Top?

My August analysis proved quite timely in concluding that US Treasury Bond Market Bubble top was imminent and a severe downtrend was expected for the next 9 months that would take USB$ all the way down to between $120-$115 as illustrated by the original graph below (26 Aug 2010 - Deflation Delusion Continues as Economies Trend Towards High Inflation)

The subsequent price action is showing a double top price pattern with the neckline at the current level of $130, this also suggests that there should be a minor bounce at this support level over the next few days before the downtrend resumes. This trend will be very volatile as it has plenty of time left to run.

Robert Prechter has produced a new 10 page report on the a developing disaster for Bond market Investors that is being made available for FREE (Download Here).

Gold

Gold has achieved my forecast trend expectations for 2010 for a rally to at least $1333 and more probably $1400 (Gold Analysis and Price Trend Forecast For 2010). What happens next demands an in-depth analysis update, however the Gold bull market is far from over, which for my more investing orientated mindset (I usually only trade the Dow), means that I continue to view all corrections as opportunities to accumulate more.

Deflationists Continue to Exist in a Parallel Universe where Up is Down

Deflationists continue to cling on to a busted flush that has little basis in fact and fly's in the face of commonsense. They fail to see the manifestation of the inflation mega-trend right across the world as illustrated by Chinese workers demanding pay hikes of 50% per annum in response to soaring food prices, if those are not a manifestation of the inflationary wage price spiral than what is ?

Eventually these costs MUST appear in manufactured goods, especially as the U.S. Fed policy is to flood the world with dollars so as to INFLATE THE WHOLE WORLD! In the face of which countries such as China are mere rabbits caught in the Fed headlights, frozen by fear into trying to maintain their pegs to a U.S. Dollar which is in an inflationary free fall, as I covered at length 2 weeks ago (18 Oct 2010 - Stocks Stealth Bull Market Dow Trend Forecast into Jan 2011)

Deflationists are even subverting the rise in the gold price to imply deflation, though if gold had fallen then that too would be manifestation of deflation (which it would be), whether prices are rising or falling its apparently always deflation, in reality the inflation or deflation equation is very simple:

When prices are rising in the domestic currency, be they consumer, or asset or commodity, then they are INFLATING.

When prices are falling in the domestic currency, be they consumer, or asset or commodity, then they are DEFLATING.

The Gold price rising to nearly touch U.S. $1400 is NOT a manifestation of Deflation, it is an inflation warning bell ringing loud and clear. Deflationists state that when inflation was high in the past Gold did not rise i.e. 1980 to 2000. However the flaw here is that deflationists are always looking in the rear view at what happened in the past to imply the same will happen again as if things are so simple! Which is why deflationists constantly bring up changing charts from the 1930's to imply deflation and a return of the stocks bear market, but since this bear market refuses to manifest itself then they keep changing the chart year used. Similarly deflationists are ignoring the fact that virtually all commodities are soaring in price, one only needs to look at the agricultural commodities to see evidence for this.

The general measure of inflation OR deflation in an economy as a whole is as measured by the consumer price index. What deflationists fail to comprehend is that the the REST of the ECONOMY is LEVERAGED to CPI, i.e. wage increases take CPI into account, and all financial markets react to the CPI right form the dollar downwards.

The reason for this apparent leverage to CPI as also concluded by many others a long while ago is because the real inflation rate is far higher than official inflation statistics (CPI) state it to be, for instance Mr Shadowstats states that U.S. inflation is at 8% not 1.1%. Whilst in the UK the more recognised inflation measure RPI is at 4.6% against CPI of 3.1%, with real inflation at above 6%.

The reason why real inflation is significantly higher than official statistics is because successive governments have manipulated their statistics right across the globe so as to steadily increase the inflation stealth tax which forces people to work harder (greater productivity) for less pay in real terms, which the government uses to squander on the expansion of the size and scope of government, which is why regardless of what the politicians state in opposition, Left or Right, when they get into power all they are interested in is how to steal even more wealth to spend on usually worthless projects such as the Iraq war and ever expanding paper pushing bureaucracies.

This trend for hiding real inflation continues to this very day, with the latest trick is to have hoodwinked the mainstream press into focusing on 'core CPI' i.e. to exclude food and energy prices as these have risen sharply, and therefore imply inflation is lower than where it actually is, even against phony CPI. Off course 'core CPI' will be lower because soaring food and energy prices mean people after warming and feeding themselves do not have much money left over to go shopping for luxuries such as new flat screen tv's!

The UK government is in the process of accelerating the stealth inflation theft by forcing the UK to fully switch to using the consistently lower CPI inflation measure, which equates to an across the board theft of at least £20 billion per year, which has huge long-term implications for worker wages and pensions i.e. at least a 30% extra loss in purchasing power over 20 years as against RPI indexation, which means workers will increasingly be forced to work even harder just to stand still as real inflation eats away at the value of their earnings as governments use the low official inflation indices to politically mask the fact that they have bankrupted the country through unsustainable debt mountains and liabilities that they are seeking to default on by means of real (hidden) inflation, but the placid population does not appear to comprehend this blatant theft of their wealth and purchasing power of wages, why ?

It is apparent from the observed writings of prominent deflationists that they ONLY tend to recognise the official inflation indices if monthly CPI is negative, otherwise they ignore it as they play pick and mix economics, and they definitely avoid sites such as Mr Shadowstats.

Where the USA is concerned this is the Inflation trend for the past decade -

Where the UK is concerned this is the Inflation trend for the past decade -

The deflation of 2008-2009 as originally anticipated is turning out to be a mere blip along the long-term inflation mega-trend, instead deflationists are stuck in a time warp mindset that can only be concluded as being delusional. Worst still, some prominent deflationists have been rabbiting on about non existant deflation for over a decade by playing pick and mix as to what they choose to represent deflation.

Back in November 2009, I started to warn that debt deleveraging deflation was a red herring (18 Nov 2009 - Deflationists Are WRONG, Prepare for the INFLATION Mega-Trend ), that debt would be defaulted on by means of Inflation rather than outright default, and that the delusional deflationists would eventually be forced to suffer amnesia and magically reinvent themselves into having been Inflationists all along. This trend is manifesting itself in stages where notably a shift in language has been taking place that now imply's that deflation and Inflation are the SAME Thing, or that there is no chance of hyperinflation, when hyperinflation was never on the table in the first place! The debate was supposed to have been between deflation vs inflation as the consequences for asset prices, wages and savings is immense on which outcome transpires, however now some prominent deflationists imply the debate has being low inflation against hyperinflation in an attempt to mask the fact that they do not have a clue.

Yes, it would be great if investments and trading positions could be ABS (entry price - exit / current price) so that in a delusional sense inflation or deflation does not matter, unfortunately that is not how the real world works ....

The facts are there is no deflation, neither is there a double dip recession (because official inflation statistics are bogus so nominal GDP will rise) which is another delusion that continues to this very day, and then there is the stocks bear market who's end has always been imminent for the past 19 months!

The inflation mega-trend will continue for many years regardless of how much delusional deflationists pray for debt default deflation to manifest itself which is blind to the fact that the Fed has shown that it will print money (QE) to monetize ALL debt and INFLATE THE WHOLE WORLD, which means INFLATION NOT DEFLATION. Debt default that deflationists have been patiently waiting for is in fact taking place by means of high real INFLATION. The U.S. Treasury will not officially default on its debt, instead it will continue to stealth default by means of inflation, just as it has been doing for the past 100 years.

At the end of the day the only thing that counts is converting price movements (trends) into monetary gains either banked or unrealised, everything else is just hot air, in this respect if deflationists had followed the sum of their own advice then they would have bankrupted themselves several times over as one cannot play pick and mix with portfolio's in hindsight!

Protect Your Wealth from the ACCELERATING Inflation Mega-Trend

Forget the ramblings of deflationists who never saw the inflation of 2010 coming, who instead postulate why inflation will always imminently turn negative. Instead, 2011 looks set to see yet higher inflation than 2010, and it WILL also come to the U.S. with a vengeance because the same deflation garbage that your hearing today in the U.S. is what we were hearing in the UK nearly a year ago. All you can do is to try and protect your wealth, so if you have not already started to do so, then The Inflation Megatrend ebook (FREE DOWNLOAD) contains over 50 pages of inflation wealth protection strategies - All of which are just as valid today because the global Inflation mega-trend is ACCELERATING, whilst at the same time governments such as the UK are making it harder to protect ones wealth such as withdrawal of RPI Index Linked Savings Certificates in June 2010 that effectively paid 6% tax free, with signs that Indexation of future Inflation proof Gilts being switched from RPI to CPI because CPI tends to be 1% to 3% below RPI.

Euro and European Union Collapse

Akin to deflation mantra has been equally delusional expectations for a collapse of the Euro currency block throughout the summer of 2010, which was most vocal just as the Euro bottomed. What these commentators continue to fail to realise is that the primary purpose for the creation of the European Union and the continuing trend towards integration is not financial or economic, the primary purpose for the creation of the European Union is to prevent Germany from starting world war 3, in this respect countries such as Britain, France and Germany pay an annual premium to ensure that such a condition never exists where war coming out of Germany would first consume the European continent and then much of the rest of the world amidst nuclear armageddon. In that respect £6 billion of annual contribution by the UK to the EU budget is a small price to pay.

So no, the European Union will not collapse no matter how bad its economy becomes, the Euro will not collapse no matter how strained the pressures are within its borders. Even relatively mild talks of reform of the euro-zone to split into 2 currencies so as to allow competitive devaluations within the euro zone is not even being entertained. Instead the European governments are clearly willing to throw unlimited amounts of freshly printed Euros' (electronic) at whatever internal economic problem arises such as the bailout of Greece.

A sample of the summers Euro collapse commentary -

Euro Will Collapse Like Tower of Babel - CNBC

Soros says Germany could cause euro collapse - Reuters

Roubini: Euro Zone May Collapse Within Days - Money News

Now the commentary has switched to a collapse of the Dollar, which as my earlier USD forecast concluded is not going to happen for the obvious reason that all currencies are in perpetual free fall as governments seek to stealth tax their populations and gain competitive advantage against other countries, therefore all that exchange rate trends represent is the volatility in the rate of decent between currencies, for instance today's GBP rate of £/$1.60 is virtually the same as where it was 20 years ago! However the below graph illustrates what successive British governments have achieved in eroding the real value of sterling by means of the inflation stealth tax, that's a drop of about 40%.

(04 Oct 2010 - British Pound Sterling GBP Currency Trend Forecast into Mid 2011 )

Therefore despite the U.S. dollar being in an a bear market, the current dollar collapse mantra 'should' resolve in a corrective rally that targets a trend towards USD 80 by early December as illustrated by the forecast trend below (12 Oct 2010 - USD Index Trend Forecast Into Mid 2011, U.S. Dollar Collapse (Again)? ). However longer-term, continuing (permanent) Fed money printing ensures the Dollar is going to trend all the way towards the mid 2011 target of 69-70 as the U.S. economy imports inflation to mask economic stagnation by means of illusory nominal growth i.e. stagflation as covered at length in the Inflation Mega-trend Ebook (FREE DOWNLOAD).

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Comments

dr ray
31 Oct 10, 12:09
house price deflation

Nadeem, When there was massive house price inflation in ther decade upto 2007 the Fed and BoE conveniently ignored it and based policy on the falling prices arising from low wage manufacturing, low wage immigration and outsourcing. Now the boot is on the other foot. While commodities, oil and food are increasing in fiat terms the price of property is falling in both real and fiat money. Since the financial crisis started with a banking crisis and falling property values will make the banking crisis worse I wonder whether property deflation is the elephant in the room and will be the factor taken into account whatever the price of fish is doing.

I have to agree with Shelby about the metric used in measuring inflation. If you measure your height with a piece of string which is getting shorter it will look like you are growing taller.

Decreasing purchasing power due to subinflation wage rises, increasing unemployment and reduced lending by banks looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck so probably does indicate deflation in real terms. Obviously if you are holding fiat many things will appear to cost more because the money is being debased and real disposable incomes are falling.


Nadeem_Walayat
31 Oct 10, 15:49
house prices and deflation delusion

Hi

I will arrive at a final conclusion on UK house prices after analysing approx 50 indicators many of which are contrary to one another.

The whole point of the inflation stealth tax is that it ERODES the purchasing power of workers earnings.

If there were deflation then workers would get richer and the government would shrink in size and scope of operation which is why inflaiton exists.

INFLATION IS A GOVERNMENT STEALTH TAX.

Deflationists are playing pick and mix as they change what they said that prices would fall, wages would contract, now its conditional on real terms which IS WHAT INFLATION IS DESIGNED TO REPRESENT !!!!

First they have to understand what inflation and deflation really are before being forced to reinvent what they stated several months or years down the road.

My objective is not to get lost in a nonsense debate but to attempt to identify trends to moentize on the inflation mega-trend such as Gold $1333, Stocks stealth bull market, food prices soaring,

Next being rising interest rates WITH money printing.

whereas ALL of these are contrary to the deflation models even though they are constantly being subverted each time they become busted, such as the mantra of a bear market rally in stocks who's end is ALWAYS imminent!

We are in an inflation mega-trend that seeks to stealth steal the wealth of workers, savers and investors.

Deflation would result in the opposite where wages, savings would INCREASE in value as prices FELL.

You have to realise this major difference between inflation and deflation which deflationists ignore ! DURING DEFLATION WORKERS AND SAVERS GET RICHER, DURING INFLATION WORKERS AND SAVERS GET POORER BECAUSE THE PURCHASING POWER OF THEIR SAVINGS AND EARNINGS FALL!

Instead delusional deflationists NOW state that Inflation is really deflation becuase purchasing power falls. When they do not even under stand what deflation IS !

PRICES FALL = DEFLATION

PRICES RISE = INFLATION

SIMPLE ! Instead Deflationists want to slap the Deflation label on top of RISING and FALLING prices.

Because prices are continuing to rise, deflationists are fruadulently implying that inflation is really deflation. what a load of BS! That will result in not a single penny in profit or wealth protection for anyone that takes such nonsense seriously !

My time will now be spent on focusing on monetizing on the consquences of the inflation stealth tax mega-trend trend .

Best

NW


Shelby Moore
01 Nov 10, 00:46
[de|in]flation points

1) I have consistently said we are not in deflation in terms of *fiat* prices, except for the over-leveraged sectors, e.g. housing, finance, and western consumer consumption. Nadeem has no argument to pick with me on that, I have consistently agreed. See my past rebuttals of Mish Shedlock and Karl Denninger.

2) However, both Nadeem and I are actually wrong about #1, with respect to developing world, because wages are rising in real terms here. And that is what I began commenting on just recently. Nadeem provides the perfect example:

"If there were deflation then workers would get richer"

Well actually they are getting richer in many developing countries. Their purchasing power has been rising radically since the mid-1990s and accelerating in nominal terms. I am seeing people here in the Philippines who couldn't eat, and now are working in call centers earning literally 7 - 10 times more in REAL (inflation adjusted) terms than they could before.

Apparently what Nadeem is missing in his focus on local fiats, is that the prices of everything in the world are decreasing relative to gold. This started around 1998, when gold stopped falling in price. You see 1980 to 1998 was a period of inflation for the developing world, their real purchasing power declined. Since 1998, their real purchasing power is increasing.

What you see in west and call inflation, is just because westerners refuse to use gold as money (as their unit-of-account). If they did, there would be instant shift to deflation, because the fiats would worthless and the western debt based economy would implode. Real wages would start to go up again in gold terms after rebalancing to the developing world levels.

The wage demands in China are because China is pegging the Yuan to the dollar instead of to gold. The people are getting these wage demands and they are seeing their purchasing power continue to rise. The Chinese people are in effect making something like gold their unit-of-account, regardless of what the nominal amounts in paper Yuan are. Caveat, in the upper and middle class sectors of the Chinese economy, there is rampant speculation, so a big chunk of that economy will need to deleverage at some point too.

Nadeem also wrote:

"government would shrink in size"

In the developing world, wages may be outpacing the growth of government.

I am not refuting the concept that we have inflation in fiats every where. I agree with Nadeem as I stated in #1 above. What I am saying is that the debt based economy is deflating in real terms, and that means relative to gold. Anything that is related to debt, speculation, finance, or anything that fiat inflates, is actually deflating now relative to gold. And those things which are based on honest hard work are gaining value, i.e. deflation.

3) I have recently strongly argued against the possibility of hyperinflation, and this has nothing to do with the inflation and deflation argument. However, the fact that the westerners have nothing to run to, except gold and silver is very important to understand.

4) I am sorry I won't be able to spend the time now to adequately explain this. I am literally programming a new site 18 hours a day, and my eyes are very heavy and my head is very foggy. So in order to come present a very compelling argument that covers all the angles, I would need to take some time to rest up. I do suggest Nadeem put together a real-time Skype debate between himself, myself, Mish, Denninger, and Gonzalo Lira. In a real-time debate setting, I would be able to address all their misunderstandings more convincingly.

All the best.


Mike Shedley
04 Nov 10, 09:36
Dow

NW,

Do you still see an imminent correction in the Dow coupled with a dollar bounce?

Difficult to see why the dollar would bounce right now, it seems to have gone into freefall, despite widening periphery CDS spreads.

MS


Nadeem_Walayat
04 Nov 10, 12:34
Dow Dollar

I was not expecting the Dow to break above 11,250 this early so I got the short-term correction wrong, main trend targets 12k by mid Jan 2011, unless that is under threat then I am not going to do another indepth analysis on the Dow until late Dec.

It seems like everyone has jumped onto the QE rally band waggon, though what were they all saying during the summer ?

Hindenberg omen crash collapse and the bearish H&S pattern, all the fools now after the rally has come saw it coming in hindesight.

That includes the likes of Marc Faber who apparantly suffers from permanent amesia as to the crash he said would follow the hindenberg omen. Though it's not suprising as faber flips between bull and bear sometimes even on the SAME DAY! Which is what one expects from a media whore sales man.

And then we have the deflationist clowns, I better stop here....

Dollar short-term correction targets 80 by early dec, longer-term 69-70 by mid 2011, recent trend has not negated the short-term yet.

Best

NW


Michael Jenkins
05 Nov 10, 09:39
Situation in Ireland

Nadeem,

I am interested in hearing your opinion on the financial crises in Ireland. Is this a good opportunity to buy Irish bond, the "good" Irish banks (e.g. Bank of Ireland) and/or Irish bank sub debt? Or will Ireland inevitably have to be bailed out by the EU with the consequence that even "good" Irish banks like Bank of Ireland might be wiped out?

Michael


Arvind Jain
12 Nov 10, 01:18
Fed Fights to Hold Up Stocks into Election, The Accelerating Inflation Mega-Trend

Hi nadeem ,

First congrats for such good write up alwys. Before visitng your site , i use to listen to either jim roger or mark mobius . I wass beilveing if some body want to make money in market then this both guy are alwys accurate both able to deliverwat they say . But this was case before i come in contact with your site . So now your name is added in my beilver list after jim roger (commodity guru) mark mobius ( emerging mkt guru ) now nadeem (europe, us ,currency , gold movement guru )

I just want to know if us to euro slide below 69 , then can we expect 54 in long run say 2-3 years .

Ystr i got some chart which say if us$ break 76 n then long term h&s format activate n tgt for that is 54 .

Is it possible tgt , if this possible tgt then world over allow market will zoom into super bull phase n then doomsday will arrive , plz put light on this or reply me to my mail id : krppijain@yahoo.com


David L
12 Nov 10, 05:59
Fed Fights to Hold Up Stocks into Election

Thank you very much for taking the time to write and publish this nadeem, it is extremely thought provoking, and of course accurate!!

I wanted to ask you a quick question if possible. There seems to be huge pushback against qe2 - from within the fed (3 non voters who are counter will be voters in jan), general poplulous (tea party, ron paul and fed, and it becoming almost a patriotic issue to have a recession) and of course internationally.

Conclusion...even this qe, and defintely the next one will be very difficult to implement in this form. I just get a feeling there's a frenzy surrounding printing money and that for the next leg to happen that things are going to have to get a lot worse...I.e. Will need the excuse of big stock sell off and growth fears to implement again. Also wondering will the next leg come in the form of forgiving mortgage debt rather than buying bonds...sneakier way of printing money, much more socially acceptable.

Feels to me like maybe markets will push for the next stage of qe and way might do that is by mini stock crash? All asset prices feel very susceptible short term to getting shanked it feels to me. Once everyone talking about stock market crash etc and full blown protectionism fears I would feel happier entering per your recommendation. Really like the thesis but jeez just gut feel that the pullback deeper and fiercer than you indicate might be the case.

So I guess my question is, what gives you the confidence that the pullback will be as shallow (in my mind) as you describe?

All gut instincts say things not turn out 'well', but I flip flop on deflationary mess or inflationary mess. Or more precisely, huge deflationary mess pre infationary.

I've seen you mention uk property once, but couldn't find any further elaboration. Have a 'bad' feeling there too!

Take care

David


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