back to indexE87: Emerging markets, Sri Lanka, 9.1% CPI, market sentiment, NASA's Webb telescope & more
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0:0 Bestie intros!
1:41 Emerging markets, Sri Lanka break down
36:1 9.1% CPI print
48:15 Current market sentiments from retail and institutional investors
65:0 NASA's Webb telescope images
75:57 Beagle rescue, Biden admin's lack of private sector experience, Russia's new energy play
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where you're wearing the same thing as Jake Al 00:00:12.440 |
I mean, you guys are so predictably dumb, the two of you. 00:00:19.440 |
Jason made me buy this outfit and I put it on 00:00:45.560 |
Okay, everybody, welcome back to the All In Pod, 00:00:52.560 |
Thanks for all the great feedback on episode 86. 00:01:00.580 |
The dictator himself from his palace in Sri Lanka. 00:01:08.060 |
And Sacks is in witness protection right now, apparently. 00:01:11.940 |
Where are you, Sacks, in this white nondescript room? 00:01:18.600 |
Yeah, oh, is that what if, that's what if Biden's done? 00:01:24.840 |
You rock back and forth and say inflation Ukraine, 00:01:29.060 |
we just had the room soundproof for, you know, better podcasting. 00:01:31.960 |
Well, look at you taking the, taking the job seriously. 00:01:36.160 |
Yeah, you can put a little art behind you or something. 00:01:39.860 |
You know, the ones you have in storage downstairs. 00:01:42.460 |
Emerging markets are facing some huge challenges right now. 00:01:45.760 |
Quick mark, quick primer on three types of markets, 00:01:49.260 |
developed, emerging, and the frontier market. 00:01:51.760 |
If you don't know, developed markets are considered US, Japan, Europe. 00:01:55.060 |
Their GDP growth is lower, single digits typically in the emerging market. 00:01:58.940 |
They're typically defined as developing, but not fully developed. 00:02:01.040 |
That includes countries like the BRICS, which is Brazil, Russia, India, 00:02:10.040 |
They were previously called the third world in the 80s. 00:02:13.240 |
Investors will bet on them having higher GDP growth, 00:02:17.640 |
typically two times or three times what the developed world has. 00:02:28.640 |
These are viewed as small, unstable, illiquid, generally risky. 00:02:33.340 |
If you look at something like Kenya, Vietnam, those would fall into that category. 00:02:38.340 |
Vietnam, 7% GDP growth in 2019 to the US is 2%. 00:02:44.540 |
Here's a nice little chart for y'all to look at. 00:02:46.640 |
And you can just see China versus Vietnam in the United States since the 80s. 00:02:53.640 |
Well, the Wall Street Journal reported last week that EMs, 00:02:55.840 |
the emerging markets, have been feeling massive pressure. 00:03:03.620 |
Well, we've got probably a half dozen things going on. 00:03:06.720 |
Let me just highlight maybe the top five and then I'll hand it off to the besties. 00:03:12.320 |
The debts, debt rates are increasing in the emerging markets and frontier markets. 00:03:17.020 |
Think what happens when you got a variable mortgage or you try to get a new market, 00:03:21.720 |
In the developing markets, the developing market investors have stopped investing in emerging markets. 00:03:28.720 |
And frontier markets as you might suspect during a downturn. 00:03:36.720 |
And we're going to talk about inflation here in the US because we got the print this morning. 00:03:41.520 |
We've also talked about this for the last six months on the program. 00:03:44.620 |
All these problems get exacerbated when economic growth slows and it's slowing globally. 00:03:49.520 |
And then finally, we have the potential issue of contagion. 00:03:53.220 |
We don't know exactly what's going to happen when various countries are facing these challenges. 00:03:58.700 |
we did tell you here what would happen with the Ukraine. 00:04:00.900 |
Shout out to Saks and Freebird fertilizer, wheat oil, all that good stuff. 00:04:08.500 |
Perhaps the canary in the coal mine is Sri Lanka. 00:04:12.400 |
Breaking news, President Raja Paksha fled for the Maldives. 00:04:21.700 |
I think that's been cancelled as of the taping of this. 00:04:28.580 |
I know you've been chomping at the bit to discuss this. 00:04:32.180 |
I think, you know, the the high level for me, if you look kind of at debt markets around the world, 00:04:41.680 |
there's about 300 trillion dollars of global debt. 00:04:44.180 |
And I put this chart in the chat here, Nick, you can put it on the on the video. 00:04:49.280 |
And about a hundred trillion of that debt globally is in emerging markets. 00:04:58.560 |
And so these countries generally have, you know, much more kind of. 00:05:02.060 |
Variable GDP growth as well as challenges ultimately with their currencies. 00:05:09.160 |
Most of this debt recently and this has been a trend for a number of years lately has been issued in their local currency. 00:05:19.760 |
And so as the currency devalues, it becomes more challenging for an investor to make a return if they're investing from a US dollar denominated. 00:05:30.840 |
So look the EM the emerging markets are heavily saddled. 00:05:44.140 |
And what's really gone on recently is that many of them as net importers of energy and food are going to struggle to make the stuff they need to make at home or to feed their people at home because of the rising inflation that's been happening around the world.