investing on the waves: tegenlicht 25 januari 2010 buigen of barsten

Monday 25 January 2010

tegenlicht 25 januari 2010 buigen of barsten

in 2011 komt er een recessie die erger is dan we hadden, zegt Rogers.
Letland. huizenprijzen halveerden omdat banken geen hypotheken meer geven.
Rogers letland is klein, maar straks misschien VK, of waarschijnlijker Oekraine. Sneeuwbaleffect.
Dow Jones gaat wel omhoog, maar niet in reële waarde, slechts in waardeloze valuta. faillissementen nemen toe: welfare to the rich (300 mln amerikanen betalen voor 1 mln bankiers. we zullen veel valuta's zien instorten. koop grondstoffen. Vietnam. gaat meer omlaag. vooral EM valuta waardeloos, zoals Brazilië.

Faber. multipliereffect overheidsuitgaven kleiner dan 1. dus schuld op laten lopen door overheid slecht. obama slechter dan bush.
inflatie komt sneller dan je denkt.Geld is te belangrijk om over te laten aan centrale bank. overheiddschulden worden te groot. rente enorm omhoog in VS, dan hyperinflatie. VS gaat dan ten oorlog.
ddwz barsten

vrouw: door klimaatverandering zal voedsel schaars worden.

2010: Buigen of barsten
Door Marijntje Denters 25 januari 2010

Is het economisch herstel inderdaad ingezet of moet het ergste nog komen? Gaan we in 2010 alsnog werk maken van fundamentele economische hervormingen of zijn we vooral hard op weg naar een volgende crisis? Voor antwoorden ging Tegenlicht langs bij investeerders en economen.

De Amerikaanse superinvesteerder Jim Rogers verwacht dat een volgende crisis in kleine landen zal beginnen en zich als een sneeuwbaleffect over de wereld zal verspreiden. Marc Faber, beleggingsgoeroe en schrijver van het Gloom, Boom & Doom Report legt uit hoe de politieke reactie op de crisis onvermijdelijk tot oorlog en conflict zal leiden. Zowel Rogers als Faber zijn ervan overtuigd dat het vrijemarktkapitalisme ons uit de crisis kan leiden. Ann Pettifor van de New Economics Foundation pleit juist voor een “nieuwe economie” waarin de overheid het voortouw neemt en het financieel systeem sterk gereguleerd en dienstbaar is. Zij voorspelt dat we zullen gaan de-globaliseren en lokaliseren.

Tegenlicht bracht ook een bezoek aan Letland waar de crisis keihard voelbaar is en de angst voor een volledig bankroet groot. Zal Letland heel Oost-Europa meesleuren naar de economische afgrond?

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Cycles

This blog will discuss from time to time the most important cycles, as we (ter Veer and Vermeulen) decribed in our book.

We illustrate the long wave, the Kondratiev wave, with the chart above the blog. So we see inaverage good times for investors until 2018 (maybe longer).

The four year cycle have we illustrated stylistic above the way ter Veer (and I) always did it. Other people describe the four year cycle difeerently.

From time to time I will try to indicate where we are on the four year cycle. You can't know for sure, so the indication will always be subjective and can be wrong.

At the moment I think we probably are in the phase FG (and we have seen the first correction in this phase).

Summary investing on the waves (beleggen op de golven)

This blog started because of the Dutch book Investing on the Waves (Beleggen op de golven in Dutch).

The summary of the book:

For being a good investor you must have views. You have to explain things well to judge what the future will bring.

We (Ter Veer and Vermeulen) think the next eight to ten years will bring prosperity as the world (dominated by the 85% of the world population that lives in Emerging Markets) has never seen.

We base that view on the study of several shorter and longer cycles in the economy. We use our investment chart (heading this blog) already for several decades: you can see the Kondratiev wave with its regular sequence of the scenarios recovery, creative transformation, prosperity, recession, chaotic downturn and depression.

To determine in which scenario we are you study the important powers in the society: business, employees, government and individuals. The shift of these powers goes in a regular cycle and causes the long wave (Kondratiev) in the economy with its long periods that things go well on average and its long periods that things don't go well.

In the current phase of the cycle business and indivuals are strong (and government plus employees weak). The strong powers cause a high growth of productivity and implementation of many innovations.

High productivity growth is much more important for economic growth than debts deleveraging.

That is why we -especially Emerging Markets- will get strong growth in the world. That will especially be the case when governments invest a lot in infrastructure (including what is necessary for the Green Revolution).

The growth in the world in the past years had three pillars: the ICT-Revolution, the Emerging Markets and the Financial Revolution with its Asset Economy.

All three pillars had its severe setbacks (The ICT-Revolution in 2000-2003, the Emerging Markets in the Asia crisis of 1997-1998 and the Financial Revolution in 2008-2009 because of the Credit crisis). The first two pillars saw very strong recoveries and we expect the same for the third pillar, especially when the Green Revolution will take off..

Gerhard ter Veer was CIO of PVF asset management that later merged with Achmea Asset Management and F&C. After his retirement he wanted together with Peter Vermeulen, then his head of strategy and now strategist at F&C extensively our theories about investing and our views that we had told to the boards of pension funds during decades.

To make things not too heavy and complicated we explain a lot with dreamings, the simple stories that aboriginals use to teach. On this blog you will see more new dreamings.

Explanation for the existence of a long wave (Kondratiev wave)

* Debt mechanism: over and under investment creates long cycles (Marxist explanation)

*Innovation mechanism: inventions, implementations follow long cycles (capitalist explanation). It explains productivity growth and so employment growth.

*Sociological mechanism: you have long periods where the society gets softer and harder.

All three mechanisms explain for a part the phenomenon of long waves. When you take them together, you can get a better picture.

The power shift between Business, Employees, Government and Individuals ( a social mechanism) is according to us the best explanation for long waves.. It explains why in some periods the incentives are right to have succesful innovations,inflation and high investment growth versus other periods in which inflation goes up,unemployment goes up and profit margins go down.

The current debt crisis is definitely a reason why growth is so low in high debt countries.

The possibilities for high growth are underestimated because productivity growth is high, many innovations have to be implemented and important new (emerging) markets grow fast.

In Emerging Markets and some developed markets like Germany you have the old classic situation of the powers for a prosperity scenario: strong Business (strong profit growth, high margins), strong position of employees (unemplyment rate is low or falling to low levels) and a weak position of government (has to downsize). Individualism is not yet strong.
In many dveloped markets like the US and the UK the situation of the important powers is differenT: employees are in a weak position and individuals (like knowledge workers with (international) networks) are in a strong position.

Because of the weak position of employees this is not the classic prosperity scenario, but you still can get high economic growth when the income of business and individuals grows strongly: a Goldilocks economy with a strong asset Economy. When this growth is strong enough this will lead to a more normal prosperity scenario with fast declining unemployment rates.

This situation will occur much sooner than most people realise: productivity growth is high, the housing market in the US will grow strongly from rock bottom levels, investment growth will be very high because of high profit margins and low real interest rates.

Because 85% of the world population lives in Emerging Markets and only 15% in Developed Markets and economic growth in the world is more than 4% (even while it is now only 2% in Developed Markets) for the world in total you can speak of a prosperity scenario.

investing on the waves

Investment Chart Kondratiev Wave

Monday 25 January 2010

tegenlicht 25 januari 2010 buigen of barsten

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