🔔 This Time It REALLY IS Different

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Inflationistas have provided us with plenty of examples over the past few months, but it's nothing new...

Inflation is here. Bond yields will have to increase. It's different this time

Just like it was every other time 👇

Why does this keep happening?

People are constantly making forecasts about the future, and the worst ones are consistently made when the predictor is right in the thick of the action.

This from March 2020 is a great example 👇👇👇

Here's an excerpt:

It died a little bit more for a few days, and then came roaring back to life.

New bull market or continuation of the old bull market?

Nobody cares.

One thing the market has drilled into me is that everything is relative.

Take this current bond/inflation argument.

The 10Y yield is only 1.5%.

Headline U.S. inflation today printed at 5%.

For many, this is CRAZY!!! OMGZ!

In the worst cases, people see something like this and because it doesn't make sense, they think it's a trick.

It's manipulation, the Fed are out of control, financial repression, ponzi scheme etc.

Yes we are seeing some inflation over a period of months, but inflation is clearly trending lower over the longer timeframe (years & decades), and that's what matters...

The value of a 10 year bond is not determined by one or two high CPI readings.

In the 'life' of a 10 year bond there are ~120 CPI readings.

During that time, individual inflation prints will move higher and lower, but it's the average across the next 10 years that determine the fair yield.

Collectively, traders are making judgements on the most likely economic paths for the next 10 years in order to determine that value.

Yes, that is over-simplifying it a bit.

Either way, the trend is clear.

It's never different this time unless something changes...

So far, nothing drastic has changed.

There's been no technological revolution, no enormous investment, nothing to reset the scales...

So we return to the pre-Covid trend.

Back to the initial point about relativity.

Buy high, sell low is a terrible way to think about valuations.

This isn't your local cash & carry.

Assets should always be valued relative to each other.

In a low-rate environment, investors will actively seek out yield (and risk).

Not many would disagree, but where can investors find a better return?

Maybe it will be different at some point.

Maybe MMT-lite will change the future.

For now though, it's more of the same:

Asset prices 📈 until proven otherwise.