Deep Dive

DEEP DIVE: Is Divine Disinflation Possible?

Sep 9, 2022 2 min read paid

This is an excerpt from our Sept 6 Morning Briefing.Deep Dives (for paid members of QuickTakes) are occasional excerpts from our flagship research service which is available on a complimentary trial basis here. Is disinflation possible without an economy-wide recession? History shows that inflation rarely falls on its own without a recession (Fig. 3). But we don’t think history necessarily has to repeat itself (despite how often it

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DEEP DIVE: Anatomy Of A Rolling Recession

Sep 2, 2022 5 min read paid

This is an excerpt from our Aug 30 Morning Briefing.Deep Dives (for paid members of QuickTakes) are occasional excerpts from our flagship research service which is available on a complimentary trial basis here. Is the only path forward a painful one, as Fed Chair Jerome Powell recently suggested? Is a recession inevitable now that Powell may be channeling his inner Volcker? Debbie and I still don’t expect that

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DEEP DIVE: The Tug-Of-War Continues Between the Bulls & The Bears

Aug 25, 2022 4 min read paid

The latest bear market started on January 3, 2022, when the S&P 500 peaked at a record-high 4796.56. That’s undisputable. But whether the bear market ended on June 16 at a closing low of 3666.77 is a question of great dispute. The bulls, including Joe and me, think so. The bears believe that the bear market isn’t over and that new lows are ahead.

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DEEP DIVE: Young Bull Or Old Bear?

Aug 18, 2022 2 min read paid

There is a fierce debate going on between the stock market’s bulls and bears. The question under consideration is whether the rally since June 16 is a new bull market or just a rally in the bear market that started on January 3? Over this period, the S&P 500 fell 23.6% from its record high of 4796 to 3666.

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DEEP DIVE: US Is The Safest Harbor In Stormy World Sea

Aug 12, 2022 5 min read paid

Our basic premise about the outlook for the global economy through the end of 2023 is that a recession is more likely to occur in Europe and China than in the US. Of course, a global recession that starts abroad could push the US economy into a recession if it is already vulnerable to one. On the other hand, global investors might conclude that the US is the only major

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DEEP DIVE: Switching Planets: Investors Now From Venus, Analysts From Mars

Aug 4, 2022 3 min read paid

Since our June 24 QuickTakes, we’ve been making the case that the bear market in the S&P 500 might have ended on June 16, when it was down 23.6% to 3666 from its record high of 4796 on January 3. We wrote: “[S]entiment indicators were so bearish that they were bullish. … On a fundamental basis, we’ve noted that commodity prices are showing signs of

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DEEP DIVE: How Much Rate Hiking Does QT2 Equal?

Jul 28, 2022 3 min read paid

Melissa and I have been wondering how much federal funds rate hiking does the current round of quantitative tightening (QT2) equal? Last week, in the July 20 Morning Briefing, we asked a similar question about the 10% increase in the US dollar index (DXY) since the start of this year.

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DEEP DIVE: The Dollar & TINAC (There Is No Alternative Country)

Jul 24, 2022 2 min read paid

As we observed yesterday, the geopolitical mess around the world continues to favor the US dollar, suggesting increasing net capital inflows from overseas into the US financial markets. That helps to explain the recent peaking of the bond yield, which should provide some support to the valuation multiples of stocks.

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DEEP DIVE: Braking China

Jul 17, 2022 2 min read paid

China continues to watch its real estate market deflate and its Covid cases inflate, while worries about its banking system grow. No wonder the recent rally in Chinese shares came to an abrupt halt (Fig. 4). Here’s some news that caught our eye:

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DEEP DIVE: US Economy & Financial Markets - From Wrong to Right Track?

Jul 1, 2022 11 min read paid

Strategy I: On the Right Track. What could go right or wrong over the rest of this year? The year is half over. It has been an annus horribilis so far. Will it continue to be so during the second half of the year? Or will we see a gradual improvement that might set the stage for an annus mirabilis in 2023? The only investment strategies that have worked out

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DEEP DIVE: How's Business?

Jun 26, 2022 3 min read paid

This is an excerpt from our Morning Briefing. Every month, the Census Bureau releases its “Advance Monthly Sales for Retail and Food Services.” The latest report was released on June 15 at 8:30 a.m. An hour and a half later every month, the Census Bureau releases its “Manufacturing and Trade Inventories and Sales” report—for the previous month. In other words, on June 15, Census reported retail sales

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DEEP DIVE: Revisiting Venus and Mars

Jun 21, 2022 3 min read paid

This is an excerpt from our June 21, 2022 Morning Briefing. Strategy I: Investors Are Still from Mars. Our May 18 Morning Briefing was titled “Analysts Are from Venus; Investors Are from Mars.” We wrote: “Stock market investors seem to believe that industry analysts are becoming increasingly delusional. The latter have been raising their revenues and earnings estimates since the start of the year, while the former have been cutting

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