Not exact matches
Asset deflation is happening all over the world and is
about to happen soon in other markets (mine).
(From «It Never Rains in California,» 6/15)-- Stan Druckenmiller: «The Fed keeps talking
about deflation, but there is nothing more deflationary than creating a phony
asset bubble, having a bunch of investors plow into it and having it pop....
The question that I have at this point in the cycle is how low the Fed will get before they get scared
about inflation, and flatten out policy to see which effect is larger —
deflation from overvalued housing
assets purchased with debt, or inflation of goods and services prices.
Notes Starting from January 14, 2006 Notes through April 18, 2006 covered the following topics: Great Letters,
Deflation and I - Bonds,
Asset Allocation and Long - Term Returns: An Empirical Approach, Valuation - Informed Indexing (Lucky 7) Calculators, Valuation - Informed Indexing (Lucky 7) SWR Translators, Mean Reversion Theory, Building Blocks, Two Baselines, Extracting Information, What Do I Really Think
About Dividends?
There's more talk now
about an impending deflationary period than we've heard in several years and the thing
about this churn is that even if we don't truly experience textbook extensive
deflation, the sentiment alone could easily drive investors in droves into
assets that perform well during periods of
deflation.
First, when thinking
about hedging, understand that there's a difference between overall consumer price
deflation / inflation and
asset price
deflation / inflation, and they can occur independent of one another.