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To investors,
Kyle Bass shot to national fame when he correctly predicted the US housing crisis that kicked off the Global Financial Crisis. He was on CNBC yesterday claiming that recent problems out of China are “like the US financial crisis on steroids.”
Bass has been critical of China’s economy for years.
His point recently is that the two largest property developers in the country, Evergrande and Country Garden, have more than $500 billion in debt combined. That is a very big number, especially when you consider that these two companies have been large drivers of the Chinese economy in recent years.
In fact, Bass argues that “when the Chinese ‘miracle,’ and I put the ‘miracle’ in quotes, when the Chinese ‘miracle’ was running its course…the substantial majority of Chinese GDP growth was real estate and the concentric circles that surround real estate. And now you’re having a reversal after an unregulated and unabated climb in real estate, and now you’re seeing a real estate collapse…they have three and a half more times banking leverage than we did going into the crisis.”
If the American investor’s analysis is right, China is headed towards a gnarly situation.
China disagrees though. For the last few months, the country has been manipulating the liquidity in their economy to prevent a collapse in financial markets. They cut banking reserves back in January and added more liquidity via reverse repos last night.
There was even multiple inflection points in the last 24 hours based on various comments or actions from different Chinese officials and organizations.
Why are they working so hard to keep liquidity high? As the folks at Crossborder Capital pointed out, China’s increasing liquidity creates positive GDP momentum.
This development in China is worth paying attention to because it is the exact opposite of what is happening with America’s Federal Reserve. China is easing and pumping liquidity into the market, while America is tightening and trying to drain liquidity.
The battle of liquidity on a global scale will ultimately determine what happens to your investment assets.
Too many investors in the western world get overly focused on the Federal Reserve, while ignoring the liquidity decisions of foreign central banks. The US is still the top dog, but countries like China have a significant impact that can overwhelm the US in certain situations.
These two countries are not always at odds with each other.
As you can see here, China has been growing their central bank balance sheet at a rapid rate similar to the US over the last 15 years.
The short-term trend is to expect higher volatility (China’s small and mid-cap stock index is down 25% year-to-date), but the long-term trend is obvious: asset prices are going to go up for the next few decades as central banks monetize their debts around the world.
Don’t get distracted by only watching the United States and western central banks. They may be still tightening at the moment, but there is trouble brewing in the eastern world. This is going to bring an estimated $2 trillion of liquidity into the market. If that happens, investment assets globally will likely benefit.
We live in a digital, hyper-connected world today. Your local geography can have an impact on you, but the global liquidity situation is the final boss. And it appears the Chinese are about to give a gift to the world.
Hope you all have a great day. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.
-Anthony Pompliano
READER NOTE: I am hosting a webinar tomorrow morning at 930am EST for all paying members of The Pomp Letter. This webinar will be a review of a massive amount of data, charts, and graphs to explain the US economy, inflation, the global liquidity situation, and where I think various asset prices are going in the next 24 months.
You can join us by becoming a paying subscriber here. I will send out the Zoom link to all members in the morning. Thank you.
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