Is It 2008 All Over Again? – Investment Watch

By Graham Summers, MBA

A significant financial institution simply went below… contagion is dragging down different related companies… the Fed is introducing emergency measures to bailout the system.

Is it 2008 yet again?

Sure and no.

“Sure” within the sense that the Fed created an enormous bubble in danger property. Additionally “sure” within the sense that banks made silly selections, violating central tenets of danger administration by lending cash to shoppers that would by no means pay it again (this time tech startups as an alternative of excessive danger mortgage debtors). And eventually “sure” within the sense that the responsible gamers get bailed out by the tax-payer and the rich are made “complete” with preferential therapy because of their connections to DC.

Nonetheless, that’s the place the similarities finish… as a result of the problems the monetary system faces right now are far larger and systemic that those it confronted in 2008.

The 2008 disaster was triggered by a disaster in housing… which turned a banking disaster courtesy of Wall Road’s poisonous derivatives trades,

This disaster (2023) is a disaster in Treasuries… that are the bedrock of our present monetary system, the senior-most asset class in existences. And as soon as once more Wall Road has gone bananas with derivatives based mostly on an asset class.

In 2008, the derivatives have been “credit score default swaps” and the marketplace for them was roughly $50-$60 trillion in measurement.

At present, the derivatives are based mostly on “rates of interest/ bond yields” and the marketplace for them is $500+ trillion. And as we simply found with Silicon Valley Financial institution and Signature Financial institution… the banks weren’t significantly intelligent in how they managed their dangers this time both.

Over the past yr because the Fed raised rates of interest from 0.25% to 4.75%, the Treasury market has collapsed. Bear in mind, when bond yields RISE, bond costs FALL.

Different debt securities adopted go well with together with mortgage-backed securities, company bonds and the like. As a result of bear in mind, the yield on Treasuries represents the “danger free” charge of return towards which all danger property are priced. So when Treasuries fell, ALL different debt devices needed to be repriced accordingly.

Because of this, U.S. banks are at present sitting on $640 BILLION in unrealized losses on their longer period bond/debt portfolios. That is what precipitated the collapse of Silicon Valley Financial institution… and for those who assume that’s the final shoe to fall on this mess, I’ve obtained a bridge to promote you in Brooklyn.

So benefit from the bounce we’re seeing in danger property now. It received’t final… simply because the market rally triggered by Bear Stearns’ shotgun marriage ceremony to JP Morgan in March 2008 didn’t final both.

Certainly, from a BIG PICTURE perspective my proprietary Crash Set off is now on the primary confirmed “Promote” sign since 2008.

This sign has solely registered THREE instances within the final 25 years: in 2000, 2008 and right now.

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