Thursday, May 26, 2011

SocGen Albert Edwards - S&P @ 400 sub-2% US bond yields?

Albert Edwards talks about his expectations of massive private debt being transferred to governments' balance sheets to cause another deflationary period. I agree with him. The just out US 1Q11 GDP numbers were pretty bad. And that is on the back of never-seen-before fiscal and monetary stimulus GLOBALLY.

So back to Edwards, a realist in my opinion.

Deleveraging will take place and ultimately risky-asset prices will come down causing another recession, deflation and then rising bonds prices.

He disagrees with Russell Napier, CLSA, that argued weeks ago that the market would collapse with rising bonds yields. That rising yields would be the cause of the collapse. Back then I mentioned that I didn't understand his point, therefore disagreeing.

I am on Edwards's camp.

Edwards believes bond yields will only rise AFTER the bust, when governments are forced to print massively to save the world.

Despite fully acknowledging the ruination of the government balance sheets as years of excess private sector debt are transferred to the public sector, we still expect to suffer another deflationary bust that will take government bond yields to new lows BEFORE government profligacy and the Fed's printing presses take us back to both double-digitinflation and bond yields. For now, we remain heavily overweight government bonds.


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