Keep in mind, I am giving a clue as to how the US and China should consider different scenarios in face of challenges and opportunities, and not in anyway to either endorse or oppose. You want to provide an in-depth meaningful thinking to those in power to make decisions, rather than to order and coach them as to how.
In fact, if we like to explore deeply what is behind the crisis, we should not put too much focus and concerns on daily policies fluctuating and adjusting. News is changing. Government may pour the liquidity today over the market while otherwise to tight the monetary policy tomorrow. Then you could see the entire landscape is reshaped into completely different one. Given what the price is changing constantly and without a break in stock market, the past is just a past while we'd better always look forward to the changing of future price.
Again, given the changing daily situation on short-run, it's hard to convince anyone for the direction that the economy goes and the market follows. I am very interested in how we facilitate the structural change for long-run.
回复克里斯托夫的评论:
楼主过奖了. 小的不是学经济出身,只是要赚个菜钱而已.
楼主忧国忧民的精神值得学习.鲁宾尼(Roubini)之流沽名钓誉的,跟您不在一个层次. Look forward to your new book.
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回复空谷回音2的评论:
There is no such things as 1+1=2 in financial or stock market. You could engage in endless disputes with others in terms of where the money derives from and how it should be used for. While for stock traders, sense, disciplines and cut-loss is even more crucial than IQ. Actually, I am catering to turn academic and technical theories into common language or defined as 华尔街文学 by myself. So, you might see the difference of my writing from others.
If we get a chance to meet, it should be much effective to getting messages across face-to-face.
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I am impressed by your in-depth knowledge of economics and financial market. Very solid indeed. Though a consulting prof at Stanford and venture partner at SV, I am prone to focusing on actions. My upcoming book is probably against a lot of people's conventional wisdom, by giving a bottom-fish Wall Street strategy through which China is able to streamline with the real world predominated by top financial giants, such as GS and MS. You might be interested.
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回复clinton-2007的评论:
Three sources for where the money is created by government, taxing, borrowing by selling bond or notes and bills at home and abroad, and money printing. Yes, they could be understood as one money, namely all from your "deep pocket".
Worth to note, By using borrowing and money to rescue the crisis, Chairman Bernanke 的解释是,“通货膨胀稀释了政府的债务,因此制造通货膨胀符合政府的利益。”
That is how the government decision-makers view toward the huge money injection.
chipmonks 发表评论于
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Both. 1. China and other countries keep buying Treasurys to fund the stimulus package (what do you think what happened at the G20 summit?). 2. Loose monetary policy to flood the market /w liquidity. As the case now with Fed's quantitative easing. The ultimate goal is to stimulate demand and get banks to start lending. That's why the extent of government intervention is unprecedented. Things are looking up as economic activities are picking up (lending, production, consumer spending and etc.). Most banks got money, they are just hoarding cash. Goldman Sachs, Citi, BoA all want to return the bailout money, but the government would not allow. Anyway, from all the early signs, the economy will start recovery within this year.
克里斯托夫 发表评论于
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You are pretty much right when it comes to following where the smart money goes. I believe that the economic crisis this time is not cyclical but structural, so that conventional wisdom won't work in that the recession is soon over as of strong government rescue plan by injecting huge liquidity to the market and artificially drive the consuming on demand side.
My attention is paid more to how we as a whole are able to create the new purchasing power, which is not through government bond selling, taxing or money printing. If fails to do so, there is not a sign to see the recovery coming back, since the government is limited and soon to be dry out. I found no cross points between supply and new demand. I will give a hint as to how I put that way in my next blog.
Bouncing back strong from a deep down, say from 6500, the questions is how we can sustain at this level that requires for new demand of consumption. I did not see that to happen at least at this point.
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Keep in mind that we're in the new inventory cycle as the old property cycle went busted. I don't think the economy will have high growth this time around. Besides, unemployment rate will remain high for a while as no company will do a lot of expanding. So raising interest rate should be a no-brainer to curtail inflation without hurting growth in the near future.
Like Warren Buffet said, "Investment is simple, but not easy." We just have to follow where the smart money goes. Right now, the smart money is in the market, so is mine. If the smart money leaves the market, so does mine.
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One correction to your definitions: GDP should be P*Q.
MV=PQ is a theory. I don't think at any point of time they are equal. That's why Bernanke's job is so tough, but he's been doing a fantastic job.
V=PQ/M. M was increasing but is stable right now. GDP=PQ. based on the latest GDP data, it dropped 6.1% last quarter. When you read into the numbers, excluding inventories, GDP dropped by 3.4% with consumer spending rose by over 2%. As inventories got depleted and consumers are willing to spend (consumer confidence index is rising), economic activities are picking up and GDP most likely already bottomed.
As for Q, because PMI and durable goods order are going up, Q is going up too. GDP is a lagging indicator, so as we see the horrendous number, it just shows that the past was terrible. Leading indicators will tell you the worst is over.
For P, lastest CPI is -0.1%; less food and energy, it's 0.2%. So there's no inflation.
When MV increase, we'd like to see Q goes up to keep P low.
In changing market, I am trying neither to be too rush giving definitive answers nor to stay in one place without a move. Today's good could be tomorrow's bad. Any bad reports, stern economic data underway to disclose... will encourage either way for investors to take profit or sell quick.
Inflation is my concern since the big printed money by the government has been injected to the market to create liquidity. Yes, high interest rate in future could help curtail the inflation,but it is also bad for the economic recovery if that to happen.
The challenge for economics and financial market lies in the fact that no one has crystal ball given what is happening and challenging every minutes, hours and days. A good example that you can see, Nobel laureates split for political parties, evenly 50% for republicans and 50% for democrats.
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Traditionally defined bear market is within 20% down during 6-24 months, while at extreme and particular in short-run, it could go much deep or much quick. For instance, within 3 months since last September through Feb this year, Dow dropped over 40%, before bounced back to what is today.
You can see the market is still in such defined range except there was a strong rebound from deep 6500. It is surely a bear market protracting and prolonging.
I am not terribly bearish about the market, but trying to search for big "why". You, as a sophisticated investor, you would be much comfortable seeing the volatility when you take account the downside risk.
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回复空谷回音2的评论:
I am not certain about the effect of the intensive government rescue plan since it is limited, short-sighted and artificial. Further, it is against the very foundation of capitalist market system and law.
Will post new articles these couple of days to touch upon how far the crisis can go and what could be reshaped next.
楼主, 您说,"熊市(Bear market),也称空头市场,指行情普遍看淡延续时间相对较长的贬值大市,市场跌幅通常在20%以上,时至半年、两年不等。" 同理,牛市应涨20%以上. 那三大指数已经涨>20%(DJ涨28%,S&P涨33%,NASDAQ涨38%), 还是熊市吗? 世界还是很美好的, 别有事没事吓自己, 还连累了无辜. This is a fact:
"在过去60年裡,标准普尔500指数通常在经济衰退週期结束前4个月触底,在失业率达到高峰前9个月开始反弹."