Bond Deals are going down, oil is going down, stocks are going down Jamie Dimon Just warned about hell. We've got a terrible warning coming from. Jamie Diamond We've got a CPI report coming and next week we've got this idea floating around that could Sofi go bankrupt and cause a bank run. We'll briefly talk about that in this video as well.

And we've got things to talk about regarding expectations and curves. so we all like curves around here. Hey everyone Me: Kevin here I'm a licensed financial advisor I'm a real estate broker I have courses on building your wealth they're amazing I keep adding content you get lifetime access to those and private course member live streams. There is a coupon code expiring Friday it's coupon code PP I'll be ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange for closing bell this Friday You're welcome to meet me outside 5 00 pm on December 9th at 5 PM Again, but folks, this video is not personalized Financial advice for you So let's get into the news first.

J Medai talks up about how we're the strongest economy in the world. This morning in an interview with CNBC tells us that consumers are spending 40 percent more money than what they were spending before. Coven tells us that households combined still have an additional one trillion dollars of money sitting in there checking and savings account and that even this Black Friday and this year to date, we have spent 10 percent more than last year. Now, inflation's been knocking on the door of 10, so maybe in real terms we're not actually spending 10 percent more But what did Jamie Diamond warn us of? Well, he actually gave us two warnings.

One's a little bit more generic, kind of expecting this one, the other one's a little bit more ominous. So warning number one was that Jamie Diamond expects consumers to run out of their excess savings by the middle of 2023 and that could cause a mild to hard recession, which is a pretty wide range mild to Heart recession. And that kind of Echoes The Narrative That the Federal Reserve tells us that Well, we are probably not looking at a soft Landing anymore. The door to the soft Landing is substantially closing, and we could be in a nice little recession doodle.

After all. 70 percent of the economy is driven by, and seventy percent of GDP is driven by the consumer. So if the consumer stops spending, what happens GDP goes negative growth goes negative year over year, and earnings per share at companies go down, which is the second half of a valuation Crush In the stock market, the first half is a multiple Crush where people pay less for future earnings because their discount rates go up in English. And simply put, if you were used to paying 50 times earnings for a stock, maybe now you're only willing to pay 25 times earnings for a stock.

That leads to the first 50 Decline And then if all of a sudden, earnings go down 50 percent. Well, then that multiple is now multiplying a number that's half as big so the stock goes down to another 50. Simple. Of course.

that simple is very painful. and if a recession does come in Q3 around Q3 Q4 of 2023, well, it would align with the potential Peak that's expected for the FED funds rate. and it would align with what the bond market is suggesting via the inverted yield curve which is screaming that we are about to enter a recession potentially as soon as Q3 of 2023. Now many folks think we've already been in a recession q1 Q2 of 2020 Uh, two had negative GDP So why is it likely that we wouldn't already have been in a recession? Well, depends.

Sometimes those GDP numbers could get conveniently revised up, and maybe we weren't actually in a recession. We actually technically won't know if we were in a recession until generally about a year after the recession begins. So determining how you're investing based on whether or not we're in a recession is usually a Fool's errand because we have no idea until it's already too late and it's already happened. So what's the bigger warning though that Jamie Diamond gave not that we're potentially walking into a recession I Think that's pretty much confirmed at this point that the FED is basically forcing a recession to stamp inflation out of the market.

We know that this has been their game plan and their MO since the beginning. They just haven't been very transparent about it, and there's actually the potential that maybe they've substantially over tightened. In fact, in a video I made a few days ago I Talked about massive potential rate Cuts coming from the FED I Want to be clear: I Expect those rate cuts to come after they finish hiking, so we're still on the trend up. We're still going to get that 50 basis point hike in December We're still expecting potentially two more 50 basis point hikes thereafter.

So that way we end up around a Uh, five and a quarter percent Fed funds rate and then we'll stay there. Maybe for three months, Six months, nine months. Who knows. It all depends how much how soon inflation comes down, but when it comes down I Expect massive raid cuts from the Fed.

The problem is, while those rate Cuts could come, or are we going to be in a dirty recession, and could that recession actually be fueled by Jamie Dimon's second warning Jamie Diamond's second warning is that never in our lifetimes have we actually been through a phase of quantitative tightening. I Think this is really interesting because Qantas Titan quantitative I should say it appropriately quantitative. it's such a weird word. Never in our lifetimes he says have we been through quantitative tightening although there has been a little bit so I think Jamie Diamond was being a little hyperbolic about this because we did Have a little bit in 2018.

This 2018 cycle over here was actually where the FED began raising rates and then they started running off their balance sheets a little bit here in 2018, which actually led to quite a bit of a panic in the market. We had quite a bit of a crash in December of 2018 and this tightening cycle became so severe in 2018 and 19 that Donald Trump threatened to fire the chair of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell over rate hikes and the tightening cycle. So we did have a little bit of offloading here. but Jamie dimon the CEO of JPMorgan Chase says look, we, you've never been to a real QT cycle so we have no idea what could happen.

In fact, he goes as far as saying, look, if we have two percent inflation, it would not be unreasonable to have bond yields stay at four percent for a very long period of time, and if bond yields stay at four percent for a long period of time, Mortgage rates are going to stay high for a very long period of time and they're going to cause a lot of pain to the real estate market. The more pain you cause in the real estate market, the less consumers spend. Right now, Moody's is projecting that real estate prices are going to fall 15 from their peak in Q1 Q2 of 2022.. they've already fallen about six to ten percent in many markets and I think we're going to go as far as 15 to 25 percent.

And if Jamie Diamond is right, we walk into a recession and yields stay high because of quantitative tightening, then mortgage rates could stay high for a very long time and the real estate bust could take years to buy bottom out. Not a quick V-shaped recovery. Last time the real estate market collapsed in 2006, prices started falling. Prices really collapsed in 2009.

We didn't bottom Until the End about November of 2011. that's a really big down cycle of about five years of a Down cycle and fear could exacerbate that, right? But not only that, let's understand quantitative tightening a little bit. Quantitative tightening. I'm just going to say QT now because that word is such a mess.

Spell it, it's crazy. I.T there I just spelled it. knee slapper. Oh so good got him.

Anyway, Uh, QT is the running off of the FED balance sheet and which basically means they're buying less treasury bonds and potentially in the future they'll even sell mortgage-backed Securities Now what happens when the FED provides less demand for treasuries by letting them expire and roll off? essentially? Well, less demand for treasuries means the price goes down. So more Q T means lower prices for bonds, lower prices for bonds, and more QT means higher yields for bonds. Higher yields for bonds means higher costs of borrowing, higher costs on credit cards, car loans, student loans, housing loans, and any kind of corporate borrowing. Everything gets more expensive.

So the QT cycle could actually keep rates High even as the Federal Reserve starts slashing rates. so we could be in a really weird position where next year we start seeing what the world looks like when the FED actually slashes interest rates but at the same time ramps up QT to keep rates in the market High We are about to enter a very Bizarro world now I'm very optimistic about America I Personally believe bad on America but by no means am I saying if you need any of the money you have invested in the stock market in the near to medium term which means anywhere between six months to two years, all bets off. We have no freaking idea what's gonna happen, but we're watching the movements so we could try to position as best possible. I Personally like investing in companies that I believe have what I call PP I Like it when PP goes up okay I like a strong thick paper PP is purchasing power.

That's it. Pricing power, purchasing power interchangeable. but generally I Like investing in companies that have pricing power expanding margins. look at a company like Nvidia forty percent net margins in some quarters look at AMD Gross margins really powerful and phase solar Edge Really strong growing margins growing revenues Tesla growing EPS The largest Automotive manufacturing uh, margins that we've ever seen.

Now some of that pricing power could Wane so you have to be careful but I Personally believe that is the entire Market sort of collapses companies with high free cash flow and pricing power or PP can actually outperform on the rebound. Everything's probably going to hurt in the meantime as everything sinks, but when the rising tide comes back up I Think the ones that stand strongest are ones with the most PP Okay, so always look for good strong Papi Now Jamie Diamond's warning about QT I Think is one that's really understated in markets right now and it's one that we have to pay attention to not just here in the next few weeks, but honestly for the next months two years. But in addition to that in the very short term here, a lot of folks are wondering Kevin why is the stock market going down and what do you have to say about Sofi Okay so look I've been saying this for about a month now because a month ago we were just on about to have the uh release of the October CPI numbers in November and I said what's likely to happen if we have a good CPI report is the stock market will run until we get to about a week within a week of the next CPI report because once you get within a week of the next CPI report which this is being filmed within a week of the next CPI release in December December Uh, 13th. we have the next CPI release for the November data.

Anytime you're within a week of a really big report like that or a Fed decision which happens the next day the 14th. What happens? Well, institutional buyers stop buying, they start selling. Why? Because how the hell are you supposed to justify to your investors Now you're on a buying spree right before critical data comes out. This is so easy to play if you want to trade the market.

In my opinion, you should know before a data release. volatility goes generally well. I mean it depends the volatility I should say volumes plummet, volatility and uncertainty goes up. So right before a data release like the week week before volatility up, volumes down which is usually associated with prices go down.

It makes sense because less people are buying, people are fearful. like what if the report's really bad, Whether you don't want to be in, if the report's really good, you could get back in and then you get a rally. That's the way it works. So what are the expectations for that? CPI report next week? Well, the expectations are for a month over month CPI gain of 0.3 percent I Hope we come into the low side of that point.

Three percent is three point six percent annualized. I'd like to be closer to two percent, but I have no idea. Core: CPI 0.3 month over month, year over year, we're expected to go from 7.7 down to 7.3 How nice it would be to get under seven percent. Again, it's terrible.

It's a very high level of inflation, and Core, you're over. You're expected to go down to 6.1. So those are CPI expectations next week. And right now, the break-even rates for uh for the market are a little volatile.

They're up more than they've been down over the last few weeks, and unfortunately, that's been leading to some pain in the stock market. Keep in mind, break evens are the Market's measure of inflation, and when the market believes that inflation is potentially going to Trend up, we see break evens go up. Uh, so this is kind of what that chart looks like right here. and if you see the trend here since the war, we have a downtrend.

but if you zoom in where I am blocking the screen right now, you see this volatility over here. We had a spike at the end of October A nice relaxation after the October CPI read in November Nice plummet here, but going into the CPI print, we see this uncertainty again. That's what this is. It's the tumor of uncertainty and uncertainty is exactly what's also Weighing on a company like sofa.

Look, do we actually think sofa is going to go bankrupt? Probably not. But what's an interesting thing to do if you want to understand a company like Sofi? Well I have a very and we reviewed this in detail in my course member live stream this morning. Remember if you join any of the programs linked Down Below on building your wealth, you get private access to me in our daily live streams. Some people join the courses just for that.

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PP Linked Down Below in honor of pricing Power. but uh, in our course member live stream this morning and I'm just going to speed this up: I Do I have a very strict way of how I analyze cash and so I put Sofi's asset position when I strip out things like servicing rights good will intangibles when I discount their loans I discount their loans which are an asset for them because they make Loans Discount their loans for credit losses beyond what they discount them to I discount them to about 10 point. Uh, 10 billion dollars I give them a cash of a position of about 1.2 billion dollars I say they have assets around 11.12 11.2 billion dollars. That's the Kevin asset math.

Okay, that puts them around a book value Of about a buck per share. So at about a dollar per share, about a billion dollar market cap after their liabilities, that's kind of where I put So-fi at. like, okay, if they're trading for under a dollar per share, they're like four dollars per share. right now.

that's when they're under Kevin's version of Book value they're actually knocking on the door of Book value if you use their company's Equity But I think that gives too much value to potentially inflated loan values and potentially inflated Equity So based on Kevin's crazy math I think a safe level of equity is around 1 point two billion dollars for the company when I take out demand deposits and payables and long-term liabilities. Okay, this is being very aggressive. It's a large Warren Buffett style margin of safety. All right.

So what I am concerned about though is if so, if I were to trade under a dollar, I would be fearful that the market is potentially trying to start pricing in a bank run risk I Don't actually think Sofi is going to go under a dollar It It is possible. if that were to happen though, I would think oh wow, you could buy Sofi at a discount to their Book value which is a really good deal potentially unless of course the market is pricing in a bank run, a bank run would occur. if. let's say uh, if if so far has uh, five billion dollars in customer deposits which they roughly do and 30 percent of them said we want our money out, that would be them demanding 1.5 billion dollars.

but they only have 1.2 billion dollars in uh in in actual cash and cash equivalents, they've got 1.2 billion dollars. Uh well well then Sulfite runs out of money in a bank run commences. Now you do have FDIC Deposit Insurance Because so if I did get their banking license, you can verify that information on their website. So am I really concerned about a bank like so because they are a bank now running out of money? No, not really.

I mean it's common for banks to lend out their deposits I was a I did think they had more cash though I was a little surprised I thought you know, hey, they've got all these loans. They're using people's deposits to make loans fractional Reserve Banking I Get it? Uh I You know? my belief is that the real Bank Run risk for Sofi gets priced in when and if that stock Falls Even more you start knocking on the door two dollars for the stock or under three dollars, then it's like, okay, are people really starting to get fearful about the platform I Don't think that fear exists right now. In fact I Think sofa is doing great things. Uh, they're doing I Think they're They're getting ready to announce the 3.75 yield on their checking or savings account or whatever.

It's actually not that terrible, right? Like that's pretty dang good. You don't have to deal with the headache of treasuries. uh, seems kind of Epic to me. but then again, you wonder like do you want to keep your money in the safest places today and is that potentially at? you know, you know, under your mattress? maybe? Is it in Gold maybe? or is it a JB Morgan You know when you just put your money in the big Banks I Have no idea.

Uh, but I've been asked about this so I wanted to provide just a little bit of my brief look on this. I Actually do think Sofa is growing very nicely and they're doing a lot of personal loans, but then again, personal loans I think are very risky in a recession, so something to keep in mind the then what's going on with yield curves. Look, the yield curve is in the crappiest position that it's been at since really the uh, 1980s when we got Paul Volckard. Now you could see on this left chart right here that I've just now zoomed into see that blue line going under the white line.

Yeah, that's how much the yield curve is inverted. Look how much it inverted in the 80s And yield curves can invert for two reasons. One, they invert for monetary reasons, which is basically the fat is just going into an aggressive tightening cycle that we don't think will last very long. or it's just straight up fear that the economy is going to go into a deep recession.

We don't really know what the reason is for this yield curve inversion. It's probably a little bit of both. That is. we're probably going to go in a recession and the FED is, after all, hiking very quickly.

So I Just wanna encourage anybody who's investing right now to just be extremely patient. There's no way you can judge a stock or a company based on what's happening on the stock price day to day. I Think the best thing to do is if you want nothing to do and you want the most safety cash. If you don't need the cash, you have enough income to support your expenses and you don't need what you're investing, but put your blinders on to what your net worth is.

try to ignore that. I Know it's very hard to do I Know the losses make you feel like you know you get that lump in your throat and your your eyes water up and it's like damn you know, lost one. Yeah, even though you haven't sold yet to realize it, it still hurts you. It makes you feel like you're making mistakes, right? That's what a recession is.

A recession is designed to make you feel like. and if you feel like the recession's working, that's what this is supposed to feel like. Yet if you can have that power within yourself to zoom out and and look at the last 100 years of the stock market and you had to pick 10 points to invest in I Can almost guarantee you you would pick a Recession to invest in every single time. Are you gonna be perfect with your timing? Absolutely not.

Are people going to give you for being exposed to the stocks in this sort of environment? Absolutely. When I started buying real estate in 2011, everyone gave me crap. They're like, oh, real estate is such a terrible investment, why would you invest in housing Oh my gosh, what a scam. That's fraud.

Best time to invest, but we won't have that feeling potentially for another five years. Maybe in five years we'll all be able to look back and go. Damn that PP got big God I Love pricing power. Good luck everyone.