The very complex Jigsaw
Blain’s Morning Porridge – 14 April 2020.
“If you try to take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you will have is a non-working cat.”
On Thursday I posted a note on the Fed doing exactly what I predicted – a programme to buy high-yield junk. A sniffy Wall Street trader called me an imbecile – which is quite a big word for a Wall St trader. He told me the Fed is not buying junk bonds, just ETFs related to junk and levered finance. He yelled at me to get it right. Really..? Go figure. Same difference. Its detail. I confidently predict the Central Banks will be buying equity ETFs soon enough – which is buying equity. End of.
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After a glorious 4 days Easter staycation over the best April weekend in history, do I feel refreshed enough to face another week in markets? As analysts simultaneously forecast global depression and record stock markets by year end, are we are into the realms of financial insanity? I have some seriously dark dystopian forebodings about where this could go….
Get over it… Smile.
But before we talk ourselves into giving up.. REMEMBER – things are never as bad as you fear they might be. (It doesn’t mean they are looking particularly good either.) If you are prepared for the worst, then you are less likely to be disappointed if it happens…
Work out why the market is fooling itself. Markets are scared of change, with a default position things will revert to “as-they-were.” This time they will not. There are a number of dangerous narratives playing out in markets at present – all of which expect things to revert to “same-as”.
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