US Economy and Stock Market Addicted to Deficit Spending

By: Nadeem_Walayat

What to know what's driving the stock market into the stratosphere? US Deficit Spending! (actually twin deficits including Trade).

Here's the Dow divided by the annual US budget deficit. Usually the lower the reading the better the prospects for the stock market because the stocks are being fuelled by rampant money printing deficit spending that is being monetized by he central bank on an epic scale/

No this does not mean we are about to go off to the races as deficits given the huge expansion in the budget deficit has sent the multiple towards bear market lows, because we are not in a bear market, instead we are on the fast track towards the German Weimar republic!

The US government has dug itself into a hole that it cannot recover from. Why? Because most of the spending that's going on is for consumption and NOT investment, or a one off such as for a war, so it CANNOT STOP without triggering severe economic contraction!

What's the price for rampant money printing.

INFLATION!

REAL INFLATON and not the BS statistics that the likes of the Fed and Bank of England vomit every month, fake inflation statistics watered down over decades to hide the stealth theft of wealth and purchasing power of wages and savings..

I have been calculating my my own inflation measure for the UK for a couple of decades now which computes to the UK inflation rate currently being at about 16% per annum! In fact it has been in a range of 15% to 20% for over a year! Since the lockdown's, when people were paid to sit at home and do nothing much productive.

As for the United States, shadow stats does a good job of calculating the real rate of inflation which ia based on the US governments own 1980 formable that resolves to 13.5% vs 5.3%.

This article was an excerpt from my recent extensive analysis on the prospects for the stock market into Mid 2021 see - Stock Market FOMO Hits September Brick Wall - Dow Trend Forecast Sept 2021 to May 2022

Contents:

• Stock Market Forecast 2021 Review
• Stock Market AI mega-trend Big Picture
• US Economy and Stock Market Addicted to Deficit Spending
• US Economy Has Been in an Economic Depression Since 2008
• Inflation and the Crazy Crypto Markets
• Inflation Consequences for the Stock Market
• FED Balance Sheet
• Weakening Stock Market Breadth
• Why Most Stocks May Go Nowhere for the Next 10 Years!
• FANG Stocks
• Margin Debt
• Dow Short-term Trend Analysis
• Dow Annual Percent Change
• Dow Long-term Trend Analysis
• ELLIOTT WAVES Analysis
• Stocks and 10 Year Bond Yields
• SEASONAL ANALYSIS
• Short-term Seasonal Trend
• US Presidential Cycle 
• Best Time of Year to Invest in Stocks
• 2021 - 2022 Seasonal Investing Pattern
• Formulating a Stock Market Trend Forecast
• Dow Stock Market Trend Forecast Sept 2021 to May 2022 Conclusion
• Investing fundamentals
• IBM Continuing to Revolutionise Computing
• AI Stocks Portfolio Current State
• My Late October Stocks Buying Plan
• HIGH RISK STOCKS - Invest and Forget!
• Afghanistan The Next Chinese Province, Australia Living on Borrowed Time
• CHINA! CHINA! CHINA!
• Evergrande China's Lehman's Moment
• Aukus Ruckus

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• UK Inflation Soaring into the Stratosphere, Real rate Probably 20% Per Annum
• The 2% Inflation SCAM, Millions of Workers take the Red Pill
• Silver Previous Forecast Recap
• Gold Price Trend Implications for Silver
• Silver Supply and Demand
• Silver vs US Dollar
• Gold / Silver Ratio
• SILVER Trend Analysis
• Long-term Trend Analysis
• Formulating a Trend Forecast
• Silver Price Trend Forecast October 2021 to May 2022
• Silver Investing Strategy
• SIL ETF - What About Silver Mining Stocks?
• Gold Price Trend Brief
• Why the CCP is Living on Borrowed Time and Needs a War
• Understanding the Chinese Regime and What it is Capable Of
• Guanxi
• Chinese People do NOT Eat Dogs Newspeak
• CHINOBLE! Evergrande Reality Exposes China Fiction!
• AI Stocks Portfolio Investing Strategy
• AI Stocks Portfolio Amendments
• AI Stocks Portfolio Current State
• October Investing Plan
• HIGH RISK STOCKS INVEST AND FORGET PORTFOLIO
• Why China Could Crash Bitcoin / Crypto's!
• My Next Analysis

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Nadeem Walayat has over 35 years experience of trading derivatives, portfolio management and analysing the financial markets, including one of few who both anticipated and Beat the 1987 Crash. Nadeem's forward looking analysis focuses on UK inflation, economy, interest rates and housing market. He is the author of five ebook's in the The Inflation Mega-Trend and Stocks Stealth Bull Market series that can be downloaded for Free.

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