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One Table And Two Charts Show Why Stocks Are A Bad Place To Be

by John Rubino ◆ October 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

US stocks are behaving amazingly well given the political and economic near-chaos of the past few months. This is probably the first recession that inflated rather than popped financial asset bubbles.

Why? Because panicked governments and central banks are dumping trillions of play-money dollars into the system, a big part of which flow directly into the brokerage accounts of the 1%.

The result is a stock market that looks very familiar to financial historians. But not in a good way. Here’s a table from money manager Lawrence Lepard comparing today’s S&P 500 to its predecessor at the peak of the 1990s tech stock bubble.

Stocks today vs 2000 stocks are a bad place to be

And here’s what the S&P 500 did following that 2000 valuation peak:

S&P 500 200-2002 stocks are a bad place to be

Next is a chart from Hussman Funds (always a good source of terrifying stock market visuals) showing the S&P 500’s behavior as it fluctuates around Hussman’s favorite market valuation measure. Their explanation:

The chart below is a reminder of where the S&P 500 stands relative to levels that we would consider “durable.” The blue line shows the S&P 500, the green line shows our best estimate of historical valuation norms at each point in time, and the red line shows “durable” levels in the S&P 500 that were never again breached in later cycles. Notice in particular that market advances toward valuation norms (that is, blue line below green line) tend to be durable. In contrast, market advances far beyond valuation norms (blue line above green line) tend to be transient, and are often wiped out over the completion of the market cycle, or even the following market cycle, as was the case in 2009.

Hussman stock valuations stocks are a bad place to be

This pattern points to an imminent give-back of the past few years’ overexuberant gains.

And last but not least, zombies
Another effect of long equity bull markets is a growing population of companies that are only viable in the easiest of easy money environments.

“Zombie” companies, for instance, have debt service costs that exceed their profits, so they can’t survive without continuous infusions of new capital. They are, not surprisingly, the first to go when financial conditions become even slightly less easy. And there are now more of them than ever before. Chart courtesy of Real Investment Advice.

Zombie companies stocks are a bad place to be
Clearly, this is another of those “peak insanity” markets that emerge during credit bubbles. Here’s why it matters so much today: This level of financial fragility and equity overvaluation gives the financial markets veto power over government policy. If future administrations and/or central banks even think about tightening fiscal or monetary conditions, the air pockets under stock prices will act as a deterrent, leaving governments around the world with no choice but to stay their current course. That means zero-to-negative interest rates and massive ongoing credit creation basically forever.

So the question becomes, what unintended consequences will flow from emergency levels of monetary ease becoming permanent? This, at least, is easy to answer: Inflation, extreme volatility, currency crisis, and soaring gold and silver.

An ugly world, in other words, but one full of opportunities.

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