Very happy to welcome to forward guidance Luke Gromen founder of forest for the trees Luke great to have you on forward guidance we are recording in the middle of a pretty severe cell up in the bond market. TLT is down close to what one and a half 2% and the 10 years now above 4.5% is it fair to say the bond market is is melting down is that too dramatic a phrase and do you know how bad will you think it will get. I think it's too dramatic to say the bond market is melting down right now I don't think it's too dramatic to say that unless the dollar is weakened meaningfully or unless oil is lowered meaningfully the bond market will melt down. What does meltdown look like. Down to me looks like a version to the TLT doing a version of what repo did in September 2019 which is 2% 2.2 2.58 10. Oh crap fed comes in 48 hours later with not QE QE puts it back to when away we go.
非常高兴欢迎《为树林》(Forest for the Trees)创始人卢克·格罗曼加入《前瞻指导》(Forward Guidance)。我们现在正处在债券市场遭受较严重冲击的中期。TLT下跌了接近1.5%至2%,而10年期国债利率已经超过4.5%。可以说债券市场正在融化?这个说法是不是太夸张了?您认为事态会变得多糟糕呢?我认为现在说债券市场正在融化是太夸张了,但我认为除非美元大幅贬值,或者油价大幅下跌,否则债券市场将会融化。那融化的情景会是什么样子呢?对我而言,融化意味着TLT会经历类似于2019年9月回购市场所经历的情况,即2%、2.2%、2.58%再到10%的波动。哦,该死的,美联储在48小时后进行了“非QE QE”,将其拉回。然后我们重新开始。
And how much of the sell off in bonds is due to economic condition so your growth being more resilient than expected how much of it do you think you have to do with supply. I think I think it's mostly. I don't think it matters. And that's I think the part that people don't get. It's probably because it's like, which snowflake touched off the avalanche and killed you and your entire family while you're skiing like who gives a. You're all dead. I think initially it's better growth and the reason why I say it doesn't matter is because there's first and second derivatives to this that I don't that the people still don't understand they obviously don't understand. Based on things they're saying writing etc.
Okay, what do I mean by that. Yes growth is better. Okay. Why is growth better. Well, not because housing is better not because I SMs better not because services is better. What's better US federal spending, which is 25 on its way to 30% of GDP is up 15%. US federal outlays are up 15% on a year over your basis, usually only happens a recession. US deficits are at almost eight and a half percent of GDP on a trailing 12 month basis only ever happens after recessions are in the middle of recessions. It hasn't happened with three and a half percent unemployment like ever.
And that's why I say I don't think people understand the second derivative one of that question which is, is it because growth is better. Yeah, why is growth better because deficits are damn so so darn high. And why are deficits so high because rates are rising. People don't understand we're in this feedback loop. Well growth is better. Well, yeah, growth is better because friggin deficits are at eight and a half percent with three and a half percent unemployment and federal spending is it is growing at 15%. When when almost 30% of your economy is going 15%. Hey, guess what that's four and a half points of GDP right there right 15% times 30% is 40 points. So that's great. What's so higher for longer. Okay, let's do higher for longer let's go to six. Now you're, you're right now. The four and a half or excuse me the rates where the arrow is five on 33 trillion in debt pro forma that 33 trillion times 5% 1.65 trillion. Of treasury payment interest, steamies being handed out globally and abroad into an economy where the private sector is some services housing is shrinking. We know this playbook we saw this playbook in 20 and 21 and 2022. What happens when you hand out trillions of dollars when the private sector supply chains are shrinking on a leg big time inflation. Growth and inflation.
Okay, guess what we're doing we're just doing like a slightly modified version of what we did in 2021 except we're calling it interest expense we're calling it higher for longer. So, like the question of is it higher growth, or is it higher inflation expectations. Yes. But this, it's that second derivative that people don't understand yet which is. And there's no breaks on this thing. And when people realize that. Oh my god, like that and that's why I say I think it's going to get very disorderly in a very short period of time because like everybody there.
The TLT the long US treasury long term is a dogmatic position. People love that trade and they are sure they're right and the wrong. And they have a, you know, a back test chart of every time that ISM has declined TLT does well the long bond rallies and you'll go down and it's not working I'm right I'm right there with you. It's not working. And they're like they're like doubling down they're digging in they're not saying, you know, under normal circumstances they say all right I'm wrong and move on and they're not from what I can tell.
And like I said, it's, you always want to know where, you know, who's on the other side of your tray and I saw someone comment something on the other day on Twitter where they're like hedge funds are short like, you know, the most short and then like ever. And I, I'm like, oh my god, like really big big that's oh my god because literally there's been our we've we've highlighted article after article for our clients it's been written about last month.
And remember it from 2019. That's one half of a trade funds are short those futures as part of the relative value trade and it's going against them. And at some point, like this group of investors who, you know, Joseph Wong has had a he's a Brit right he had a tweet and he goes remember the pain trade is higher back in late May, he said they're starting to put the relative value trade on the biggest market one of the biggest marginal investors buyers of of treasury of cash treasury it's not the future cash are hedge funds. And it's going against these guys and these guys are very they have monthly mandates. Right. So the trade goes against them they are not dogmatic they it's like it's against us. We're out.
Mm hmm. So folks are saying, look how short treasuries the hedge fund community is their short treasury futures against being long cash. So they're harvesting that little minuscule spread explain to me how this is a bad thing because I talked to people all the time who say higher for longer isn't realistic but they say it for a different reason than you they say because the economy can't handle 4% 5% 6% rates and that it's going to throw the economy into a slowdown. What you're saying is actually that higher interest rates are stimulative and perhaps actually they stimulate growth. That sounds to me like a good thing you said there are no breaks on that thing. Don't we walk the economy to be room room you know at a 120 miles an hour what what what can you go wrong. It sounds like a good thing.
It's a good thing if you're long if you're not long bonds and it's a good thing if there is if the US federal debt is not what it is and they can finance any rate and they can't. There's a rate at which it becomes so mathematically obvious that even the staunchest. I have to be kind here. Analysts support that there's not a fiscal problem will start to go. Guys there's a fiscal problem and I would argue we passed that point about three weeks ago when when you had like the Washington consensus in the Washington Post going hey how come the deficits are so big with unemployment so low that's really weird we've never seen this before. So if you have rates go up. It's on a lag it's basically an interest payment stimmy. So the government's going to spend.
Okay fine that's going to drive growth that's going to drive employment. Yes. The challenge is is that the private sector that you need in theory to finance those deficits will be shrinking. It's a classic crowding out problem. I'll use an extreme because it's just easy math. Let's take, let's say the Fed goes higher for longer takes rates to. I don't know 10% you know I don't think they're going to do that. It's just easier math than seven. So let's just do 10. Okay so you're going to 3.3 trillion in pro form interest expense 10% time 33 trillion. That is about 12% of GDP right so 26 20 GDP 3.3 trillion on top of that.
Okay so roughly 12% of GDP stimulus. In the meantime, all of the banks holdings of treasury is going to be wildly upside down the housing market is going to be really tanking. Anything interest rates going to be tanking interest rate sensitive. So your government revenues are going to be falling dramatically and as a reminder we're at, you know, we've seen revenues down 20%. It's down more like seven on a trillion 12 month basis now and they should get a little bit better actually in coming months but your revenues are going to collapse at 10% because we're a highly interest rate sensitive economy financialized over the last four years.
So now you're going to have the government running. You know 3.3 trillion interest to trillion in defense 3.1 trillion in entitlements. So that's 6.4 plus a trillion is 7.4 trillion and outlays just in the big three receipts fell from 48 or 28 trying to 4.2 trillion. So what the Fed just did we haven't even really caught up on interest yet so say that number goes down another 20% to call it 3.3 trillion, which is probably conservative. What's the point three trillion the receipts receipts receipts. So you're going to be looking at what I say 74 over 33 you're going to have a 4.1 trillion deficit.
4.1 trillion deficit is just short of 350 billion a month net you have to place plus role which Jamie Diamond said next year over the next 12 months is 5 trillion you can roll that you need. Okay, now the dollar is going to be rising like crazy in that because you're going to be squeezing out the global dollar markets will foreigners have 7.5 trillion in treasuries they can sell, including 3.8 trillion at the central bank level. So you're going to add on a net supply basis to that 4.1 trillion dollar deficit plus 5 trillion dollar role plus up to 3.8 trillion as these nations sell to defend their their currencies and people said, well, that's a position of weakness. They're selling to defend their currency.
Again, who cares. They're selling. All I care about is what's it do for rates in the bond. They're selling and they will sell aggressively. And so that's also going to take receipts down as it puts more upward. So what you can see is, and oh, by the way, the feds supposedly can be selling a trillion tooth still and QT. Of course they won't be in that case, but this is why I say I don't get the sense people understand. There's no breaks on this thing right now. Like as soon as the hedge funds go the other way and they will eventually. There's no breaks. There's no breaks, the fed or the breaks. And people say, well, they can buy it all. Yeah, they can. And that'll have applications for gold, Bitcoin, oil, dollar, and they're going to have to buy it all with oil at 9500. So you said the hedge funds go the other way that now they're long the futures and short the cash, were they taking a directional position in.
And I'm just saying they have to, if they're the biggest marginal buyer, one of the biggest marginal buyers of treasuries to take that position off, they have to unwind it at some point, whether because they've made money or because they're getting stopped out. Right. They are not. Yeah, they're not buying for any. They're not like central banks who can like buy for political reasons. They don't have to mark the market. They don't have to explain to their investors why they just got carried out on a trade. It doesn't matter, right? the feds lost. What have they lost? A trillion on their bond portfolio and they're burning 300, 400 billion a year cash losses like they don't have to explain it to anybody. They don't have to explain it to anybody. Investors hedge funds, they have to explain it like monthly. And if they lose start losing to much money, they skip taking out of their seat replaced. So like that, they're not going to stay for a trade that goes against them.
What, so you said, you know, to make it simple math, 10% rates all across the curve and then you, I think you multiplied that just by the amount of debt, roughly 30 trillion, you can give us the good numbers. But what about that, you know, all of the US debt is financed over a term of, you know, one day to 30 years and so much of that is fixed rates. So the 10 year, you know, if they borrowed at 1% and then interest rates go to 10%. That interest expense stays flat. It's only that it's only when it has to be refinanced when interest rates go up. So how have you seen real financing costs go up relative to that assumption that of just, you know, multiplying the debt by the interest rates. And then also, is there a perhaps a benefit of if everyone in the world, banks, the Federal Reserve, other central banks bought a voluminous amount of treasuries when, you know, yields were at 1% or 1.5% in 2020. And they bought that at the par $100. And now that's at $70. Is that not in some way, some sort of gain to the government that, you know, some way they convinced the everyone in the world to buy by their debt at too high a price to low yield.
You know, when Jamie Diamond says they need to roll 5 trillion in the next 12 months. That's what is that's 20% of the debt in roll right off right. I want to say over the next two years they've got a role, a little over half of it. Right. So, and that leads to a question of hey, with rates at basically zero, why didn't they term it all out. And there's two possible answers to that. A, they're go actically stupid. Or B, they can't. In other words, and that's the dirty little secret that I think nobody wants to talk about, but I'm from Cleveland. So, you know, I don't, I'm not tooth enough to not say it. And the answer is, is the deepest, most liquid market in the world ain't very deep in liquid and certainly not deep and liquid enough at the long end to place the deficits in the size that were throw that the federal government's thrown off. And that's, you know, if I had said that five years ago, that would have been highly inflammatory controversial. And now it's not at all. Like if you talk to someone, like you talked to people in senior seats, it's very obvious. That's the reason why they didn't term it out. He's just not talked about polite company, but like I said, I'm from Cleveland. So, as far as the second answer, is it a game for the government? Yeah, it is.
There's a great quote from William M. Chesney Martin, the Fed governor that everybody loves because he was the guy before Burns. The quote is when machezney Martin was the assistant secretary of the treasury, I believe he said it in 1951 right after World War II when our debt to GDP looked a lot like it looks now. Or it did certainly five years prior to 1951. It is the lead quote on a white paper from Carmen Reinhart and balance a bronze year from 2016 I think called the liquidation of government debt, which ought to give you a pretty good idea of, of, you know, liquidation we're watching the government get liquidated as we speak. The quote is regarding the two and three quarter non non convertible issue of 30 year treasuries. We want to meet these concerns head on about whether it is a trick issue. And the trick issue because guess what they did they turned it out. And they you were not allowed to convert it I guess and basically the real value of those 30 year bonds in 1951 went to zero by 1980 in terms of what they bought, you know, oil was two bucks 1951 because inflation went up and because interest went up so it was worth less. It does yeah the real and the mammal value collapse to for sure but the real, but my point is like you can do that once. You can you can snuck the world once. And then you get what we're starting to see which is I tweeted about it yesterday I wrote about it last week to take a cost as a great chart showing that downside volatility and gold for the first time in 45 years is less and long term treasuries. Gold is less risky than treasuries now they pulled it off once they snuck her them once oh my god. But you didn't fix anything if you're going to do that you need to get GDP down like that's you know fit 45 to 51 us that the GDP went from 110 to 50%. You snuck her people real rates went to negative 13. It was what it was there was a different time and and an understanding of why they had to happen whatever.
有一句很棒的引语来自威廉·M·切斯尼·马丁(William M. Chesney Martin),他是联邦储备系统的一位大家都喜欢的主席,因为他是伯恩斯主席之前的人。这句引语是关于马切兹尼·马丁担任财政部助理秘书时说的,我相信他是在1951年在二战后,当时我们的债务占国内生产总值的比例看起来与现在很像。或者至少在1951年之前的五年里是这样的。这句引语是卡门·莱因哈特(Carmen Reinhart)和巴兰斯·布拉姆(Belen Sbrancia)在2016年的一篇白皮书上的主要引语,我想它叫做《政府债务的清算》,这可能会给你一个很好的想法——你知道,我们正在目睹政府被清算的过程。这句引语是关于两个和三个四分之二不可兑换的30年期国债的问题。我们要直面这些关切,关于它是否是一个花招。花招就是因为你猜对了,他们把它推出了。而且你不能兑换,我想基本上那些30年期债券在1951年以来的1980年的实际价值为零,就是它们所能购买的东西,你知道的,1951年的油价是2美元,因为通胀上涨了,利率上涨了,所以它的价值变小了。是的,它的实际价值肯定崩溃了,但我要说的是你只能做这一次。你只能欺骗世界一次。然后我们就会看到我们正在开始看到的情况,我昨天在推特上发表了关于它的推文,上周我写了关于它的文章,有一张表显示了金价的下行波动性和长期国债45年来首次小于金价。黄金现在比国债风险小,他们一次欺骗了国债,天哪。但你没有解决任何问题,如果你要这样做,你就需要将国内生产总值降低,就像1945年到1951年的美国一样,国内生产总值从110下降到50%。你欺骗了人民,实际利率降至负13%。那是那个时候的情况和原因的不同理解。
So, and that the GDP is exactly where it was when they started snookering people. And so now you have to you still have to place all this site. Two trillion assuming no recession we have to place two trillion next year. This is Jamie diamond telling the world this two weeks ago. And also we need to roll five trillion next year. Now what are you going to do.
The last time debt to GDP was this high was you know 1945 it was over 150%. What was that snookering what happened. Why can't the US government snooker. Bon holders around the world again. But first tell us what you mean by snooker. It's just negative real rates and it's been my playbook the whole time.
We wrote so so so what happened then was, you know, 10 year treasuries were long term treasuries is how they have it historically we're at 2% in 19 November 1941. And Japan Barbara Pearl Harbor and overnight the 10 year treasury long term treasury went from two to two and a half. And the Fed came in and kept it at two and a half. They kept a 10 year two and a half. They kept the short end. I want to say it three a's or three quarters. I don't remember. So there's a slightly positive yield curve and they kept it flat from 42 to 1951 for 10 years. And as a bond holder you got paid every dime you were owed and you got killed on a real basis. It at worst in the United States. Real rates were negative 13% post war at worst real rates in Japan were negative 6060% in parts of Europe in Australia 30 to negative 40% at worst. You lost a ton of money on a real basis. Thank you for your donation to the war effort.
And by 1951 that the GDP was down to 50%. And then they were able to separate fed treasury, go back to independent fed policy, and you can start to manage monetary policy separate from fiscal policy again because you can do that without blowing up the system. And then we passed forward to 2020 and early 2021 wrote an early 21 I wrote a report for clients that said, they need to run the same playbook. Go back to late 2020 Jason Fermi lurk Ben Bernanke Larry Summers. And then we answered Ken Rogoff, all were part of a discussion of a white paper by by Fermi and summers, saying we need to run the same playbook. We need to basically inflate this away. And then what I wrote and analyze and a simple analysis was that the last time the Fed was able to manage policy raise rates without blowing something up was when rate was when that the GDP was 70 to 80%. I said, so we need to go from 120 to 70 to 80%. And then the simple math in terms of negative rates needed to drive that were somewhere between negative 10 and negative 20% real rates in the United States for three to five years. That's it.
And at first and 21 it looked like they were doing that it's like okay and then politics got involved in early 22 the Russian war got involved the election got involved. And then all of a sudden the feds said, oh, we need to we need to fight inflation. Okay. And at first I believe they're going to do it because like well they have this playbook they lay the playbook out pre 20 right the black the black rock white paper in August of 2019 is like we're just going to flake this away. We're going to go direct we're going to fiscal and the feds going to buy it and then it happened and then they went direct and they did fiscal and the feds started buying it and 21 they did it and summers and all these guys blessed it. And so at first and 22 is like, they're not going to reverse if they were their versus this is going to be a disaster. And then it was like, oh my god, they're reversing it so it's like, you know, yeah, I, in a early in mid April 2022 was like what they're doing the only thing is it's good for us a dollar like everything else is going to go down try to raise stocks, everything's going to go down. Then they bought themselves time last October when when they weaken the dollar by about 15% how did they do that. Primarily to yell and running down the TGA massively more than offset QT.
The point here is is is what's the playbook they need to do is they're fed needed to let inflation continue to run hot 22 and 23. And so, we had they done so we probably be getting to a point where debt to GDP was 70 to 80% by now, and they would be able to start hiking. And, you know, in other words, that said that that the markdown of bonds from 100 to 70. At the long end, they needed to be a hundred to 20. They need to be a hundred to 10. Like they didn't do enough, because debt to GDP didn't come down. So they weren't they weren't aggressive enough and so now.
And they haven't made me progress and they've already kind of run the playbook of like, okay, mark the debt down. Like, okay, you want to mark it down again. You can't because you didn't get that to GDP down enough. If that's a GDP had gone down to 70, then you still have the option of letting rates go from five to seven to eight. It doesn't bankrupt you. With that to GDP still 120 and deficit to eight and a half, you let rates go from five to seven to 10. You're done. It's over. You go into a feedback loop. And that's I think we're starting to see symptoms of that.
I think the fact that goal has less downside volatility than treasuries for the first time in 45 years is a symptom that markets are starting to understand the US is about to go to a feedback loop. Feedback loop. I think the fact that real rates have risen the most in 40 years and goal hasn't gone down is another symptom of markets beginning to understand the US is that close to going to a feedback loop. You say, okay, well, what happens then they told you they told you Jackson hole and no one wanted to talk about it. Duffy, Darrell Duffy wrote a white paper and Jeremy Stein commented on it. And they said we're gonna we may need to. The Fed may need to tell markets and differentiate between market functioning purchases of treasuries and monetary policy purchases of treasuries. Wait, what? And like to me that was the biggest takeaway from from Jackson hole. There was a whole bunch of things filled. Only a couple people picked it up. But like they know they have a problem and they're hoping this doesn't go against them. They're hoping but it's got like the math is the math hopes not a strategy. They're going to have to do it. I think they know it, which is why they're talking about it. It's such an important meeting Jackson hole and we're rapidly heading toward that moment.
I'm watching the gears spinning and unless again, unless the dollar gets lowered meaningfully or unless oil gets lowered meaningfully. This is likely going to happen. So interest rates. So, it's a great raise the fiscal expense and they can create more debt to fund that expense so that increases debt to GDP, but wouldn't higher interest rates also cause GDP to go down and a nominal GDP particularly inflation dominated GDP. And it's because if you know I think the way Jay Powell thinks about this is interest rates go back to zero. That is not going to help the US debt problem because inflation is going to run super hot and the government's probably going to borrow even more. And, you know, not not saying that you know, how is Volcker but Volcker was very anti debt and unlike today's Federal Reserve he was quite open about his desire to shrink the US deficit.
You'll high interest rates discourage government borrowing because if you want to borrow at 20% to fund a government project, it's not going to work out very long. Paul's no Volcker. He can't be Volcker deficit when Volcker will try to do what he did was 2% of GDP it's eight on a trailer to my basis debt debt to GDP was 25 to 30%. And there's literally Volcker couldn't hike rates enough to bankrupt the government. How can't I ain't that far from here. And when I say bankrupt it's either the Fed comes in and caps that or it goes into a debt spiral.
So, I'll make seems to want to mandate government policy in other words, he wants to make government borrowing more expensive. And I think that's what he's saying is that he needs to pick up a history book because I would challenge him to find a country with a purely fiat currency that it could print where the government shut down where the government shrank itself voluntarily. So what's he actually doing he's actually increasing the deficit. And so that's 3.1 trillion on 4.2 trillion in receipts that's almost 70% receipts just on entitlements. And that's just it. To be clear that's just an interest expense that's just the interest expense on the off balance sheet liabilities let's click 100 trillion or whatever the hell they are.
Let's just be clear and call that what it is. So, so is Powell, you know, people say, well, the bond markets doing doing the Fed's job for you know it's doing Putin's to. So, it's Powell saying we should shut down defense, because he's raising rates. It's what he's doing. Is that the right thing to do for America? I don't know who elected him that I had nobody. Is it going to happen there's not a chance there is zero chance he's going to shrink defense about raising rates.
All these going to do is make the deficit bigger. So bigger deficits with 3.5% unemployment. Now, can he shrink the private sector output sure he can. But if he's making deficit bigger while shrinking private sector output. He's going to shrink receipts he's going to make that's even bigger from two angles he can set interest up and he's going to send receipts down. Which is going to send issuance up and the dollar up which is going to send. More net supply up as foreigners sell to defend their currencies, which you send rates up which is going to send receipts on the private side down which is concerned with people say he hasn't broken anything he has broken it and it's about to be marked the market and he's not really passionate real time he's broken too thanks he's broken he's he's on the process of breaking the treasury market.
And he's and he's already broken the US energy market because that's the other thing. How's he broken the US energy market. Oh, because shale is is interest rate sensitive. He and Biden have combined the SPR releases and federate hikes. Last week it just came out the Permian is rolling over Permian productions negative. In October like so so let's let's get to we want to fight Putin we're in a war. Okay. If we're really in a war why isn't he buying all the debt why is he raising rates. And why is he hurting oil. Those are literally the opposite of the two things that you do in war. So either we're not a war or he's not acting interest in the night in the interest of the United States. I don't know what it is.
In World War two in Vietnam. They have the Fed hold rates below and we maximize oil production. I'm not sure if he if he's if he's doing this on purpose or if he's just acting dogmatically to raise rates. But in the end again it doesn't matter like this is what's happening. So let's say in a year September 2024. The Federal Reserve has maintained industries at 5.5% and is still doing quantitative tightening. What does that world look like the unemployment rate stock market the long term bond the dollar gold. Tell me what that world looks like. I don't think we make it September 2024. Before something really breaks in that world. He would need for him to stop inflation. If he wants to continue if he wants to run this thing out he really wants to be bulkier.
What he needs to do is when the 10 year spikes to six. Stand aside. And when the US banking system starts to fail. Stand aside. And when people start saying to him oh I'm an unsecured depositor my money's going to go away. Stand aside. And what a treasury auction has a problem at that rate because of the net supply dynamics because it's 6% implies a much higher dollar. Lots of foreign selling. Stand aside. And when oil is at 110 because it's 6% rates there's not. Stand aside. And the reality is is he's had that chance to stand aside and he did. He did BTFP. He you know they just paused they can't they have. He had the chance of acting March to do all that and he didn't. So to me it's all about when. When does. This supply demand dynamic. Create disorderly upside yields where he comes in and does market function purchases of treasuries or to. For market resilience of the treasury market right we saw a little hint of that last week in my opinion.
We had that treasury official come out and say no we're going to do remember we're going to do treasury buybacks for the first time in 20 years for market resilience to build and boost the resilience of the US treasury market which is the deepest most liquid market in the world trademark 1985 USN. If it's so deep in liquid why do you need to do buybacks to boost its resilience. You know it's sort of like the. You know a few good men. So if you gave the order the Santiago wasn't to be touched and your orders were always followed why was he in danger why did he be transferred off the base. Same thing here. If the market is so resilient why do they need to do buybacks. Why do they need even discuss market function purchases at at at Jackson. Well, verse and differentiate them from monetary policy purchases. The answer is you know.
Yeah, you ordered the code red. So I don't know what does that world look like if the world's still there. If he stands aside. It's a new great depression he's not going to stand aside and I think it happens way before then that he doesn't stand aside in terms of what rates you.
But what what's going to break so as you said the Federal Reserve initiated the bank term funding program which is a allows my audience very familiar with this as as you are. So that's a big help to the bank term funding program. What we say things are going to break. What would be please be specific what do you mean.
The market did the US shale business is breaking like that's and this to me is one of these really interesting things and everyone is fighting the last war. The Fed included. In the last year, the dollar shale supported the bond market shale kept inflation low. 90% of global oil production growth over the last 10 years has come from us shale US shale is now starting to roll over thanks to the SPR releases and the Fed rate hikes. People say who if oil keeps going up that's not to keep raising rates.
Permian, Permian production is set to decline in October per the last week. So 90% of global production growth. Over the last 10 years is now shrinking. So what how is oil going to go down if supplies marginal supplies are full. Oh, well they can shrink the economy but they're not shrinking the economy US government GDP is doing great. So you're going to the feedback loop between higher oil, which increases inflation expectations, which forces more treasury selling from foreigners because they need energy more than they need dollars they need energy more than they need So email about saving formmm we're just not going to start to really watch it.
So do you think that everything being equal, which it never is, but everything being equal, uh, interest rates, higher interest rates caused the price of oil to go up, not down? Paradoxically up to, and unless you're willing to like really crash the global economy. Yeah. Yeah. Because then this is another factor that like, if I was trading bonds and rates, I would be intimately familiar with U.S. shale. And the reality is, is most people to trade bonds and rates that I've encountered, like they say, well, we're now one of the biggest producers of oil globally, and that's that. And they don't understand exactly that it's been 90% of global production growth over the last 10 years. They don't understand that U.S. shale is the highest marginal cost oil or close to it in the world. They don't understand that once you stop drilling, there's a treadmill effect. So basically you have to keep growing production. At very large rates. Otherwise production falls. They don't understand that the, the, the decline rate on the legacy production last month. From the big four shale basins, Permian, the Bakken, the Eagle Furt and the Niebra were 6.6% per month. Last month. It's not it's not a linear rate of decline. The rate of decline declines over time. But again, they don't understand that. They don't understand that. If you hurt shale, you see the oil market back to Saudi and Russia.
They don't understand what Russia and Saudi. Now, if we have hurt our own ability of Powell with rate hikes and Biden with SPR releases has hurt our ability to keep oil prices down. What do we think Russia's going to do with oil? This winter. Well, we don't have to guess anymore because they just temporarily suspended exports of diesel. You know, there's the rate silo and there's the energy silo and like the energy guys I'm talking to were like, Oh, my God. And like the rates guys are like, Oh, don't worry. Like inflation is going to come down. They don't understand the pro cyclical nature. Of what rates are going to do to us oil production and what that implies for oil inflation for. Geopolitics, etc. And that's, you know, for the last three, four months that's been the oil guys gain and the bond guys lost. And I think it's going to continue to be.
And at some point the bond guys are going to go, Oh, my God. And then things are going to get real interesting because once they realize that the US has put a, you know, has put a bullet US shale production growth. So now Russia and Saudi control the oil market again. Why do I own TLT? You know, you're basically limits your case to like they're going to literally fly the plane in the ground. They're going to, they're going to crash the system. They're going to, they're going to shut down like, can you get oil down? Yes. Shut down the economy like code. You get oil down. You get it goes negative.
Failing that, but, but oh, by the way, at the bottom of COVID in March of 2020, treasury started selling off. Remember, treasury market crashed. So, you know, these, you know, owning TLT is like trying to capture increasingly. It's like this shrinking, shrinking trade where it's like, okay, if they crash the economy enough. Like they didn't COVID that oil really goes down. And there's a short term scramble for the quid.
Well, yields will fall as markets come as stocks go into bonds. And so I want to capture it for the moment from here to like right before it crashes and yields start going back up again. And then before the Fed put. And if you can trade that. Hey, great. But you, but I don't get the sense people. I know I can't trade that. I don't, I get the sense. A lot of people don't understand the game they're playing as it relates to that long bond trade.
What do you think happens with oil because you know, close to $100 on Brent. Do you, I mean, do you think that there is a recessionary effect when oil gets quite high as it, you know, oil went to $120 in June. That's when you had a, you know, we're not calling it a recession. I don't think it was a recession, but a mid cycle slowdown. And then up oil starts going down. What do you have happened? Suddenly we were starting hearing about a resilient economy.
So I mean, is there a limiting factor where if oil goes to $120. The world will enter a recession or $150 because of demand destruction. There's initial derivative effects and then there's second derivative effects, right. So if oil goes to 120 or 150. Yes, it's going to slow the private sector dramatically. It's going to increase us show production in theory, right. So I SM is going to go up in the US. And so the fence going to need to raise rates even more right I SM all of a sudden is going to print 52 53 from whatever 48. And it's going to be all oil drilling related and supply chain related and all of a sudden it's going to oh my god they got to raise rates even more. That's number one. So possible but but not good for bonds.
Number what number two oil 121 50. I go back to the initial point I made about. Unless you get the dollar down and you get oil down. The pain and bonds going to continue. So the foreigners own 7.5 trillion US treasuries total to their central banks on 3.8 trillion of that. And they need oil. And so if oils at 120. It's not like they buy 30% less oil and let their people starve and ride bikes they buy the oil and they sell the treasuries.
So if oil was 121 50 that net rate of treasury selling effective selling we talked about before. Accelerates. So you're going to get if oil goes 121 50. Tl T when I jumped on here this morning's at 89. It'd be a frigging 75. And again some point between here and there. I think the fed and by the way, it could do that in like three weeks or weeks. So. Would that hurt oil. Yes, if the fed is willing to stand aside. And let treasury markets dysfunction in my opinion there is zero chance that that is going to stand aside. As Tl T goes from 90 to 75 in a few weeks.
And what does treasury market dysfunction mean to you is it about an absolute level. Tl T at 75. Let's just say the 30 year at the 10 year at at 5.5%. Or is it about a series of asynchronous movements if we gradually move to 10 year at 6%. But it's not at all volatile. Is that a treasury market breaking? What does it mean to you? To me it's about the liquidity and the asynchronous of the movements and to be clear we're talking about, you know, whatever it's 33 trillion out and what I think it's what a 24 trillion size is what they quote 25 whatever it is. The anything that big is going to create a circuit smooth anything that big relative to balance sheet capacity.
Like who has the balance sheet capacity to deal with those kind of losses. You're talking about a $25 trillion market. If it drops 5%. Someone has lost a true over trillion dollars. Someone's a trillion. Someone's lost a trillion. Depending on who's lost that trillion and how that's accounted for like that. That requires you to sell something else. And that's why and that's something else will force the dollar up, which will force more selling. Like this, the feedback loops are multiple and generally all in one direction because sort of every lever has been pulled to sort of hold this thing up and support it as long as it has been held up.
When I proposed September 2024 you said the wheels come off this thing earlier what what do you think in terms of timeline and what are things you will be on the lookout for of Oh, if when the 10 year hits 5% this will happen or when gold hits this level this will happen.
It's a little bit like the whole, you may be too younger remember this and I'm not jacking on that but there was a art exhibition in Cincinnati back in like 1990 of Robert maple for part and some federal judge was like I, you know, I don't have the definition for profane but I know And it's a little bit of the same kind of thing which is, you know, let's see what the treasury move index does it's been relatively tame so far let's see what the bags do let's see what. Let's see what treasury markets do let's see what the dollar does let's all these let's see what oil does let's see what geopolitics do right like, you know these things are so interconnected where, you know, two weeks ago we saw, you know, the news in England reporting on missiles that reporting proudly the British missiles were used to hit Russian ships at a naval base and I think it was in set list Apple in Crimea. And you kind of go hey great. What do you think the Russians are going to do. Like you actually think they're just going to sit there and do that or, you know, or might they weaponize oil more and if they weaponize oil more what does that mean for rates what is how they how they fund their war effort.
China's by it, but that's the fundamental market if China's buying it then you know oil traders can buy from China or buy from India. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. And, and exactly right oil it's a flexible market but it's also a inelastic market right so it's a production by 3% and price goes up a hell of a lot more than 3% and you know they can do what they just announced two weeks ago which is, you know, hey starting in January we're going to sell gas to China at half the price of the EU. Okay, how you compete with hat with with guests twice as much as your competitor. The answer is you don't you go out of business slowly. And the point here is it relates to the original question which is, with what am I watching I'm sort of watching like all of this right. You know what what's what are the geopolitics what do is what the oil market do the key to key levers dollar.
Little simplify it. Unless the dollar goes down a lot. Or unless oil goes down a lot. The beatings and treasury markets and guilt markets and boot markets and Italian bond mark, they will continue, and they will continue, and they will continue until we get a repo rate September 2019 spike. Except in Western sovereign bond markets. And then everyone's going to go I don't see how how come nobody saw this and happen how nobody knew the Fed already broken something and I'm telling you they were already broken something so we can, we can reference back there how no one could have seen it I saw it. It is so obvious to it.
When did the Fed break something. When they decided to tighten instead of let inflation rise. But what was the thing that broke. What was the thing that broke the US fiscal position. The US fiscal position and US shale. US tax receipts trailing 12 months as of a month ago down 20%.
You don't get to have receipts fall like that. The GDP of 120%. You already have a supply to man. You don't get to increase supply into what is already a tenuous supply to man problem. Like there's only so many bears you can poke right like you can't reduce issuance or increase issuance because you knock stocks down. Increase issuance because you raised rates increase issuance because the dollars strengthening based on what you've done. Increase issuance because you've hurt your own oil business which is hurting receipts which is increasing in oil inflation was increasing rates. Increase issuance because you're picking a fight with the two biggest with the biggest energy supplier in the world. You're your biggest former biggest creditor and the world's factory you don't get to do that.
Yeah. You have to pick and choose. When the Fed did not let inflation run hot for as long as they needed to. That started it. Now we're just watching it play out. So we said something broke I feel like yeah right raising interest rates will mechanically increase interest expense but so nothing outside the physical position has broken you're just referring to the physical position.
I would argue the banks have broken. I mean the fact that they need to do BTFP. Look that like that wasn't a banking problem there was a treasury market problem. They were upside down again if Powell wanted to be Volcker. The answer was very simple. Stand aside. Banks saying, Oh, we're upside down. Okay, sell your treasuries.
You the banks own for US commercial banks holdings of treasuries have gone from. I don't know at the peak I want to say they're four and a half trillion give or take they're down a bit. Let them sell them all sell them all. They had to look. Oh, they would have taken major losses. No, they don't care that they would have taken losses. They didn't want them selling it because it would have created treasury market dysfunction. So the Fed had to get involved they had to do the BTFP that's BTFP's just yield curve control for banks. They're taking underwater bonds and buying them apart if Powell wanted to be Volcker. Stand aside. Why didn't he stand aside. Why did he bail out on secure depositors. I think because the only way to fix the banking system was.
Door number one is stop quantitative tightening and lower interest rates and door number two is keep quantitative tightening and keep interest rates high keep raising interest rates and do BFP BTFP. I think door number two was the much was the tighter monetary policy door. It was the one that save the banks, but it was like bank loans are up again. They're rising. So like how, you know, again, if he wanted to be Volcker, he needed to stay on the side. He did. He saved the he picked and choose. You don't get to pick and choose like Volcker just like, you know, kill them all like us or not.
Yeah, but I'd say I'd say pal. It was the tightest thing you could do. I don't think he could have not done BTFP and continued to tighten monetary policy. So, so my next question is you're not worried about a recession. You're not at all sounds like you're not at all worried about higher interest rates causing a recession for the normal channel of banks restricting credits and unemployment. You're not worried about that. No, the banks are the ones with the problem.
Let me back up. The traditional way of doing is banks restrict credit to people. Right. So, right now, the banks, their rates went up. My rate didn't go up. I got a 30 year mortgage at 29. Nice. Right. So, and I'm not the only guy. So, no. If I'm making 200 basis points between where my cash on the bank and my mortgage. There's a bank somewhere bleeding 200 basis points. Yep. And in reality, it's probably the government right they probably own though the mortgage back and the feds bleeding. Is that really not is that really restrictive. If I'm getting a 200 basis point a year debt jubilee. That's not restrictive. It's great. I'm getting a free house. Thank you fed. And so a lot of other people.
They tie back to that point about there's a lot of things with this cycle that are upside down in terms of is it restrictive. It's not restrictive for the public sector. The deficit. The deficits. You know, there is no world in which running an 8% 8.5% deficit 3.5% unemployment is deflationary. It just isn't like they, it's not. And it's not going to be. And yes, you will have deflationary pockets on the private side. That was just netting against for a bit. Ultimately, as that happens. You're going to end up with less supply and more money. That is, that's super inflationary. Like they're like, they've already, I mean, they've already broken it. They did the wrong thing. They needed to let it play.
Once you get that the GDP to 120%. Like, there's no like, well, maybe we can know. Negative real rates for five years double digits. Come back. That's it. Or you devalue the currency all at once. That's it 30 40 50% overnight. That's it. Those are your choices. Otherwise, like you try to pretend things are still normal. I can be vulgar. No, it's not how it works. And, and you know, they did a good job pretending in 2022. They tried. It failed. The guilt market broke first. The US banks broke. Yes, it's China under strain. Yes, is China broken? No, China did not break before the banks. No, China did not break before the guilt market. The treasury market was very, you know, it was defunct dysfunction right alongside the guilt market. Just a little, a few steps behind when, when Yellen came in and, and, and we can let all our take and take it down TGA so aggressively.
What about inflation going to 15% then interest interest real interest rates are negative. That would be great. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's what has to happen. Like, that's, I mean, will it be great? No, I should rephrase that. Like, if they want to get out of this, like, that's kind of what has to happen. You got inflation 15 fed pens it at three. And you know what? You know, the problem is, is you can't do that without some sort of capital controls, right?
If it's going to have to buy the whole bond market because there are nobody is going to hold a bond at three when, you know, inflation is 15.
如果市场上没有人愿意持有3%回报率的债券,而通胀率却达到15%,那么央行就必须购买整个债券市场。
Well, the clearing price will just be 9%. And that's, that's fine. I mean, interest rates can, you know, the bond bonds can go to 9%. They can go to 10% 11% what is so that's what I'm trying to get teased at this conversation.
What is so unstable about, you know, a very upward sloping yield curve fed fed is at 5.5% and the long end sends off sells off to 10. And that's the most 7% 8%. It's totally unstable.
Because, okay, so 5.5 the front end, 9 at the long end. The housing market has taken across the country, in my opinion.
因为,好吧,所以前端有5.5,长端有9。我认为房地产市场已经遍及全国。
Let's set aside all the corporate refinancings are going to have to take place. And that probably hurts things too. The equity market is probably quite a bit lower. So between the housing market and the equity market quite a bit lower.
You are going to have tax receipts quite a bit lower. So your issuance is going to be quite a bit higher. So, okay, so now you're going to need more issuance. 9% long end means the dollar is quite a bit higher.
In terms of its position. Because it's live. It's a. Well, foreigners holdings have declined in value. That's good. That's terrible.
就其位置而言。因为它是实况直播的。这是一个。嗯,外国人持有的股票价值下降了。这是好事。这是可怕的。
Because they're selling. Well, how is that good for the United States? Whether it's good or bad is irrelevant. But here's what it is like is is what it is. Foreigners will be selling. 3.8 trip. Go back to that math.
Okay, let's say 5% front end 9% long end. US tax receipts fall another 20% from 4.2. To whatever 3.3.
好的,假设5%是短期期限利率,9%是长期期限利率。美国税收再次下降20%,从4.2减少到3.3。
You're going to be running. Much bigger deficits. So remember that the numbers I just gave you before in terms of the spending. What did I say? 7.4 trillion between interest entitlements and defense. Against 3.3 trillion in receipts.
Plus you need you're going to be the dollars and be much higher. Foreigners are going to be selling. Yes. No. So is it good or is it bad? Is it putting them in pain? Sure. It's putting them in pain.
But it's again, it's like shooting yourself in the jugular and saying, ha, ha, ha, you know, I'm going to bleed out slower than you are. They have 3.8 trillion at the central bank. 7.5 trillion overall.
Let's say they sell that 3.8 trillion in a year. Let's say they sell it at a trillion nine a year rate. And the reason they'll be selling is to defend their currency. Correct.
So now you've got what did I say? 7.4 minus 3.3 in receipts. So 4.1 net plus 5 trillion in roll plus 1.9. So you're now going to have 6, just 4.1 plus 1.9 is 6 trillion in net effective issuance.
And you're going to have the Fed selling other 1.2 allegedly. That's probably not going to be happening. Okay. So now you have to 7.3 trillion net effective issuance. That's just over 600 billion a month in net effective issuance.
And now you're also going to have 5 trillion in roll. Where's the balance sheet? What's the rating getting nine rate rates? It's going to be five and a half. Like there's no balance sheet.
So is this good for the US? Yeah, again, as long as Powell is willing to stand aside and let the free market work. But that implied that's why I say there's there's no breaks.
You're going to get a nonlinear rise in rates because there isn't a balance sheet at these rates. There just isn't. So now the higher you get a nonlinear rise in rates. Guess what? Oops. It's not 7.1. It's it's it's eight one. Ooh, it's nine. So.
There's only one outcome. The Fed's going to have to buy it. What about banks buying it and using the repo facility? The thing that was set up for in 2019, which is the limit, I think is 500 billion, but the limit is essentially unlimited.
Sure. That's just QE. Okay. But it's the bank's owning it rather than the Fed owning it. Yeah, just like SLR exemptions were the banks rather than the Fed owning it.
Like if the banks the Fed give the banks the money to buy it. You know, if your dad gives you the money to buy a Lamborghini is it your Lamborghini your dad's your dad's Lamborghini. Okay, but that's not the that facility already exists.
So it's not saying there to be clear. I'm not saying there aren't buyers. Yeah. I'm saying the buyer is the it's the classic the dollar or the or the treasury market and the Fed is going to have to come in and in some way, shape or form.
And, you know, we've been very clear about this in our writing. Like when I say the Fed, it's dollar liquidity, it can be treasury with buybacks. It can be SLR exemptions reinstated at the banking level.
It can be the, the standing repo facility can be all these things. All those things are just QE and you'll have pure say no, no, it's not QE and the market's going to be like, you know, like, like, timey Lee Jones and the fugitive right. Yeah, I don't care. They're going to buy gold. They're going to, and I think that's why gold is not going down. I'm like, the math is so clear. Like, the feds going to have to buy it in some way, shape or form, because when you lay out the numbers. There isn't the balance sheet. Like, like, when I lay out that whatever it was, six trillion conservative plus five trillion roll by way of comparison global GDP is what is it 90 trillion.
Growing three. Okay, that's 2.7 trillion in global GDP growth. The US will need incremental and that's, that's assuming growth. We were talking about a global recession. So it's actually shrinking. But let's be conservative, three trillion in global growth. And the US government needs to X that just in their current financing net effective, let alone the role. Like, there's not enough balance sheet. Like, people aren't taking a step back and going, Oh, my God, like, and they say, well, it'll get bought. Well, yeah, I don't get bought. I'm not saying it's not going to get bought. It'll get bought by the Fed, or it'll get bought by the private sector at much higher rates. And then we just keep playing this game until the rate gets a point where the Fed says enough. We're buying it and it's not going to go higher.
But so, but the repo facilities, so that already exists. Do you think that is sufficient? In other words, the Fed can keep rates at 5.5% and keep reducing its balance sheet. They're just making loans to the private sector to buy this collateral as it occurred in 2019, because there is a difference. I mean, yeah, if your dad lends money to buy a car. Yeah, it's, it's not your car, but you do own the car. It's your dad. I mean, presumably, you know, it's a nice arrangement here. But, but like, if a bank lends you money to buy a house, the bank doesn't own the house and the Fed lends. Oh, sure they do. Oh, absolutely. They do. Absolutely. They do. It's. Don't pay them. See how quickly they see how receive it. Yeah, but JPMorgan can pay the Fed back. If if if if a 10 years yielding 7% and, you know, five repover rates at 5.5% where each short term interest rates are, JPMorgan, they're good for the money, you know, as are most banks. Like, that's a that's a positive. Do we just need positive carry in the yield curve and then banks can basically do a leverage trade with treasury is borrowing from the Fed. That's why I say about getting the dollar down. Yeah. That's unless you get the dollar down or oil down the treasury mark is going to keep dysfunction. That would get the dollar down. If they do it in enough liquidity. Then, yeah, then that will work. You've got to get the dollar down. Like that's what you're that's what you're saying is they're going to devalue the dollar.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Sure. That'll work. But you're not going to get on. That's the other side of this equation 559.
好的。行。嗯。当然。那个可以。但你不会坐上去。那是方程559的另一面。
Well, yeah, it'll work at the dollars at 70. Not at 105.
嗯,对的,在70美元时会奏效,但不会在105美元时。
Mm hmm. Where do you see happening to the dollar now? I mean, it's been strengthening for a little bit now. It's the corollary to the, you know, unless they get the dollar down or they get oil and they get oil down, not even or really.
And the dollar's going to keep going up because they're they have, they have broken this already. They are in this feedback loop. They don't understand they're in this feedback loop. Maybe they do. I think they do a little bit. I think they're a little nervous.
Yeah, I kind of sensed a little bit of nervousness from p al in this temper meeting that I don't normally sense from him. You know, be careful. You've seen the movie margin call. I have yes. Yeah. Yeah. So there's seen when the boss played by Stanley Tucci gives the key, the, what's it called the flash drive to the, you know, the kid and he says, be careful. I was working on something, but they wouldn't let me finish it. So take a look at it. Be careful.
I kind of felt like that when Powell said, be careful seven times. Not that I'm repositioning some great financial crisis. But yeah, you think they are nervous. If they, if they understand what they're in, I'd be, I'd be crap my pants.
They are very dangerously close to discrediting themselves with rate hikes, which is, which would be just delicious irony. It would be delicious irony.
Yeah, I do. Because again, it's, it's ultimately a fiscal problem. They didn't, the playbook on these things is so clear. They're so clear. They wrote a white paper about it. Seven years ago. There is a very concrete set of steps you have to follow. And they have gone about since 2022. A monetary policy that is based on a set of circumstances that is simply not correct.
I wrote a tweet the other day of, you know, from parks and recreation of whatever his name is throw the computer in the garage. And I said, this is me, you know, the Fed has never raised rates, let alone this fast with debt to GDP at 120% trailing 12 month deficit at 8% rising with the US net international investment position negative 65% of GDP. And with the US being the biggest marginal high cost oil producer in the world responsible for 90% of global production growth. Like, that set of circumstances. Like, you simply couldn't do what they did. It, it, it was, it was like, I can't, how wrong it was. It was 100% the wrong thing now where they forced into a by politics domestically with inflation probably where they forced into a bit, geopolitically with what Russia did probably a little bit. But again, I don't care, it doesn't matter. They did, they did the wrong thing at the wrong time.
And so now we're starting to see, you know, the implications of that shales rolling over the SPR is drawn down tax receipts are down deficits are up debt to GDP hasn't falling.
Oh, this is a little bit like the only thing it says I'm a some sort of productivity miracle right so they roll out some sort of nuclear, you know, fission like portable reactors and I hear these things do exist in some form right so if they came out and said, Hey, you know, instead of being in Zalinski and other whatever we're going to spend, you know, $100 billion and we'll put these things in over the next year and, you know, people are going to get really cheap electricity and and Starlink and, and, and, and, okay, maybe you could start, you know, you're going to get a productivity failing that and there's other productivity or energy mirror productivity boot and miracles or energy miracle should have a failing that here too.
Like I don't think people understand, you know, when you have a severe disease. You don't get to wait too too long and then say like, Oh, okay now I'm ready to be healed now I'm ready to get serious no once you get to a certain point like they put you in palliative care they make you comfortable and they let you die.
And the metaphor for that for the fiscal side is us deficit the GDP is eight and a half percent almost on a trailing 12 month basis. So let's just take it let's not take it to flat like we were in Clinton, which was a fluke itself but let's let's take it to where we were at Volcker to two.
That means we need to cut six and a half points of GDP now. That means GDP is going to fall six and a half percent. Now, annual GDP in the great financial crisis, 12, three to four, and nearly collapsed the banking system.
So we need to get the GDP in coven we shut the frigging economy down. I felt like sex.
所以我们需要在我们关闭这该死的经济之前,获得国内生产总值。我感觉就像是性爱一样。
You can't do it. The mathematically, the mismatch between when you pick up productivity for getting the government out of the way in three to five years versus the GDP hit now relative to the leverage in the system. And that's how unless they are willing to stand aside and let the banking system collapse at the US government shutdown lay off the Marine Corps.
No, it is not a possibility and that sets aside all the politics. I mean, I'm just saying it's mathematically impossible. I'm not even talking about whether politically impossible, which by the way it is. Yeah.
So what do you think about the stock market? What do stocks do here in this it's narrow that you you envision I guess before the pivot and then after the pivot. There's two ways to think about it.
The US is in an Argentina situation. That's what I'm describing. It is in an Argentina. Absolutely. As soon as the Fed try to tighten rates before they let that the GDP go down, they were they they had put them up there in fiscal dominance. That's that's what this is all about. The fact that the Fed hiked rates. And we're now have interest in and entitlements above receipts, you know, interest. That's fiscal down. Like the fiscal's driving the boat. The fiscal's driving the boat fiscal dominance. Sure.
But Argentina, you know, they had a lot of debt denominated in a currency they couldn't print. And no one really wants Argentine pen at pesos that you could, but you can print. You can print. You can print the Fed can print the US dollar. The United States owes its baby boomers $70 trillion in health care goods and services and social security. Social security is inflation adjusting as we're seeing. Number two, they don't the boomers aren't owed. Whatever it is 3540 trillion in Medicare. And dollars, they wrote hips, they wrote knees, they wrote drugs, they wrote. That's a foreign currency. Absolutely. And that's a part people also leave lights. So the more we can't print out of that. That's, that's a fact. So we do. And that's something people still again on this bond trade. I hear that a lot. Well, we can print our currency. You can't print hips and knees. You can't print drugs. You can't print doctors. No, you can't. That's a foreign currency. We owe, we owe baby boomers $3540 trillion in foreign currency. Sure. And that's since everyone's in Argentina, but, but financially, I'm just saying that, you know, the US does not owe pesos than our, Argentina, oh, oh, dollar. So, okay.
So what does the stock market do? So what's the stock market do for the period of time until as long as we stay in this dollar up rates up dynamic, the stock market probably, I mean, it's not good for the NASDAQ. It's not good for the banks. I think it will increasingly be good for you see a vicious sector rotation that we've been seeing towards industrials and commodities, etc. Ultimately, it's super good for the stock market, right? Argentine stock market and pesos went to the moon and the dock and because again, the balance sheet's not there. But you're not Argentina, you know, inflation was like 60%. You're not forecasting that for the US. No, not yet. Not yet. But, you know, again, you get, it'll probably be like everywhere else. The U.S. it'll be, as I said, Argentina with US characteristics, Italy, they have to get the only thing keeping the US out of a fiscal crisis was the inflation, the Fed has been fighting. That's why that was the mistake. That's when that's when they broke something and now we're just seeing it mark the market.
So, so this will be the environment you envision will be good for stocks. Ultimately, yes, in the short run. Got it.
那么,你所设想的环境对股市会有利。从短期来看,是的,明白了。
Okay, so we know your view your bearish on short term, excuse me, your bearish on long term rates that you has aged very well.
好的,所以我们知道你对短期看跌,对长期利率看跌的观点非常准确,这一观点一直表现得非常出色。
What about short term rates if you think the Federal Reserve is going to cut rates, the two year probably looks pretty attractive. What do you think?
如果您认为美联储将降息,那么短期利率如何?两年期可能会显得相当吸引。您认为呢?
Probably, but to me, you know, I mean, we've been recommending this whole time, you know, short term, treasuries, like I've been, you know, recommended this barbell approach since the last, I don't know. I mean, clients, probably no better me probably last, probably much of the last year, where, you know, we're, we're probably more than last year.
At any rate, overweight cash overweight short term treasuries or significantly overweight gold significantly overweight Bitcoin significantly over or excuse me significantly overweight US electrical infrastructure overweight industrials overweight oil. And so, yeah, look at the Fed cuts rates will short term treasuries do well. Yeah, probably. Will they do as well as gold Bitcoin and oil? No.
No, especially with oil. You know, if they have to cut rates as I think they're going to have to with oil at 90 plus. Or, or, or, or, and maybe they don't cut rates. Maybe they just do, you know, the latest iteration of not QE QE, whether it's treasury by the X or BTFP or not QE or whatever. You know, the market functioning purchases of treasuries that aren't QE, please don't, you know, let please let us keep our credibility.
Not QE. Yeah, it's going to be great for oil and, and, and gold Bitcoin. I don't think it's going to be great for. I think it'll be fine for short term treasuries of the cut rates. I just don't think it's the optimal way to express it.
Why does gold do well in this environment and Bitcoin? Oh, because they are simply duration longer duration assets with a more fixed supply and a face value that can rise. They, they do well when a nation has a fiscal problem. And when the reserve currency issue of the world and her allies all have fiscal problems and hers is it. You know, but hers is at least as bad and probably worse than the others. Even Europe, then that's really good for gold Bitcoin.
What about, do you think the Russia selling gold to fund its war? They're not selling gold. They sold some gold earlier this year. They bought it all back. The latest update last week was their holdings were back to 2023 highs.
Okay, interesting. How come gold isn't that more? Oh, that's a whole different. It's a complicated story. Gold is a very politically managed metal. But Bitcoin is not. No, Bitcoin is much less managed. And I think Bitcoin responded to last year's liquidity draw. Very, very aggressively.
So, but the monetary future that you envision is this gold and Bitcoin play a role as a medium of exchange. In other words, you know, going back to the gold standard or going forward to a gold standard or going forward to a Bitcoin standard. Or is it more like it's a call option of the dollar fiat currencies are really performing like trash. So let's just get something where the denominator is fiat currency.
In other words, but what if what I'm saying my question is, what is the. How do you exercise that call option? Like are people going to be going to the store to buy coffee with gold or Bitcoin? The answer to last question is no, the answer to the first question is earlier you said the bank, the Fed will lend the money to the banks to buy the treasuries or it'll get bought somehow that way. Yeah.
That is not the primary reserve asset of the world anymore. Would you sell finite oil production and stored in treasuries that are being bought by the banks who are getting the money from the Fed who is creating that money out of thin air. No, you can't.
Yeah, you, you away from any political and economic mathematically you can't run a system that way the system will collapse. And so what is needed to address the supply demand issue in treasuries will force a systemic change. And the real is forcing a systemic change by which gold has become the primary marginal reserve asset and has been for 10 years already.
Since that since 2014 global central banks have not added treasuries I think they've sold $600 billion with the treasuries on net at the central bank level since 3 Q 14 and they bought about $300 to $400 billion worth of gold.
So this isn't speculative that gold will be moving back into the system as a reserve asset gold has been is and has been and will continue to driven and enforced by peak cheap oil. You can't sell more and more expensive oil or oil that's more expensive. Take your dollars or whatever currency you sell it in and store them in sovereign debt, whose value declines against oil. And so you have to have a reserve asset that can rise in price or either rise in face value rise in price, or have the rates rise enough to compensate you for the inflation in energy.
And the reality is, is sovereign debt can't rise over $1,000 face value. And the reality mathematically is that the US Treasury cannot afford interest rates over I don't know what it is. I would argue with already there, but maybe it's six maybe it's seven I don't know it's not too much far but further beyond that. I would argue with with with tax receipts already down 20 would tell you they can't afford five. Yeah, you're you're you're already transitioning to this system. I think it will continue.
And you know, how do you get out of that trade. I plan on selling my goal to JP Morgan. And they'll credit my bank account and I suspect it'll probably be a lot higher price because it's going back into the system. And how do you do you think that the reserve currency will still be the dollar or will it be another fiat currency. I think it'll still be the dollar but it's it'll be, you know, a much more. It'll be the fixed what what Russia and China are doing or just moving the system to what it should have been after World War II. And they said that the PBOC said that 15 years ago. They said the system in the end of World War II there were two choices that Keynes is bank core system, where there was a neutral reserve asset made up of commodities. And then there was the dollar and we went with the dollar and the fact that the dollar we've got all these crises etc shows that we should have gone with the other one. And we're going to move back to this other system. Like they told you that 15 years ago and their actions have shown that they're moving back towards that. So I think we're moving back to dollars global reserve currency.
But reserve primary reserve assets going to be gold and a floating price in all currencies. That's very interesting Luke. Thank you for sharing your perspective. Before you go, tell us about forest for the trees. What are your different offerings and do you just you just have one offering or the difference where tears and where could people find your work. There's different tiers we've got a mass market business we have a institutional business and you can find out more about us FFTT dash LLC.com and can also find me on Twitter at Luke Groman l UK GRO Emian. Yep. People know you on Twitter and we got your handle on there Luke. Thank you so much for joining and thank you for watching.
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