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Reruns: how equity declines precede the fall in earnings, growth and employment during recessions; new US semiconductor export policies on China and the clash of empires; and another press article extolling the renewable energy virtues of a country with little relevance for anyone else

Reruns. When bear markets occur and the investment mistakes of the prior cycle are revealed, bearish investment commentary tends to intensify. There is a confessional, self-flagellating quality to some of this research, as if its authors are trying to atone for having missed the signals and risks during the prior boom. I read around 1,500 pages of research each week and the most consistent message now is a litany of gloom on earnings, valuations, wage and price inflation, Central Bank policy normalization, housing, trade, energy, the surge in the US$, China COVID policy, etc. I am not saying that these things are not important, since of course they are (see Appendix charts). But for investors, there is a remarkable consistency to the patterns shown below: equities tend to bottom several months (at least) before the rest of the victims of a recession.

Let’s start with the Eisenhower recession, which is notable for the lack of monetary and fiscal stimulus deployed in what at the time was a pretty severe recession. Equities bottomed in December 1957, while earnings did not bottom until a year later.  GDP and payrolls also didn’t start to improve until the middle of 1958. You will see the same pattern during the 1970’s stagflation, the 1980’s double dip recession, the S&L crisis of the 1990’s, the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID pandemic.   

The indexed line chart compares the S&P 500, GDP, Earnings, and Nonfarm Payrolls throughout the Eisenhower recession from June 1957 to June 1959. The S&P 500 bottomed in December 1957, followed by GDP in March 1958, Payrolls in May 1958 and Earnings in September 1958.
The indexed line chart compares the S&P 500, GDP, Earnings, and Nonfarm Payrolls throughout the Stagflation era recession from June 1973 to December 1976. The S&P 500 bottomed in December 1974, followed by GDP in March 1975, Payrolls in April 1975 and Earnings in September 1975.
The indexed line chart compares the S&P 500, GDP, Earnings, and Nonfarm Payrolls throughout the double-dip recession from December 1980 to December 1985. The S&P 500 bottomed in July 1982, followed by GDP in September 1982, Payrolls in December 1983 and Earnings in March 1983
The indexed line chart compares the S&P 500, GDP, Earnings, and Nonfarm Payrolls throughout the S&L crisis from December 1989 to June 1993. The S&P 500 bottomed in October 1990, followed by GDP in March 1991, Payrolls in September 1991, and Earnings in December 1991.
The indexed line chart compares the S&P 500, GDP, Earnings, and Nonfarm Payrolls throughout the Global financial crisis from March 2007 to June 2013. The S&P 500 bottomed in February 2009, followed by GDP in June 2009, Earnings in September 2009 and Payrolls in February 2010.
The indexed line chart compares the S&P 500, GDP, Earnings, and Nonfarm Payrolls throughout the Global COVID pandemic from December 2019 to December 2021. The S&P 500 bottomed in March 2020, followed by Payroll in April 2020, GDP in June 2020 and Earnings in December 2020.

The Dotcom collapse is the outlier: the earnings decline preceded the equity market decline, there was barely a recession at all, and the mini-recession of 0.3% preceded the equity market bottom by more than a year. 

As for the latest bear market, it appears on the right.  I see no reason why this cycle will not end up looking like most of the other ones.  If so, the bottom in equities will occur even as news on profits, GDP and payrolls continues to get worse.  When will that be?  We will be watching the ISM manufacturing survey very closely.  It has a good track record of roughly coinciding with equity market bottoms, as shown in the table. I would consider 3200-3300 on the S&P 500 index good value for long term investors, if such levels were reached sometime this fall/winter.

The indexed line chart compares the S&P 500, GDP, Earnings, and Nonfarm Payrolls throughout the dot-com bubble recession from December 1999 to March 2004. Earnings bottomed in June 2001, followed by the S&P 500 in September 2002. However, GDP bottomed in March 2001, while Payrolls began declining in April 2001.
The indexed line chart compares the S&P 500, GDP, Earnings, and Nonfarm Payrolls in our current time period. The S&P 500 is leading the decline, beginning in January 2022, followed by GDP in March 2022 and Earnings in June 2022. Meanwhile, Payrolls are still rising.

Thucydides Trap update: US semiconductor policy on China deepens the rift

In May 2018, I published the chart below on economic ties between the US and China as a counterpoint to Graham Allison’s “Thucydides Trap” book. Allison’s work analyzed rising empires competing for power with incumbents.  By Allison’s account, in 12 of 16 historical examples, competing empires ended up in military conflict, and Allison sees the US-China relationship as a rerun of these precedents.  My chart was meant to highlight the unique economic ties between the US and China when compared to historical adversaries.   As things stand now, certain fragments of the US-China relationship support my thesis: US imports from China in 2021 reached $540 billion (close to the pre-trade war peak in 2018), and China still holds ~$1 trillion of US Treasuries and Agencies.  However, the latest developments on US semiconductor policy do not support it, and represent the most comprehensive change in US-China trade policy in decades.

Chart shows economic linkages between actual and potential adversaries of the last 100 years by plotting each pairing’s combined GDP in a specified year (as estimated by the sum of their bilateral central bank holdings, bilateral foreign direct investment, and bilateral annual trade). US-China economic linkages far surpass any other pairings, exhibiting a combined GDP of over 7% in 2014. The next runner-ups, France-Germany, exhibit a combined GDP of just over 1% in 1930.

The Trump administration took steps against ZTE and Huawei but left open the possibility of future engagement, perhaps in exchange for Chinese cooperation in other geopolitical areas. The latest moves by the Biden administration appear to close those doors, and for a very long time. A summary of the latest US actions1:

  • The new semiconductor policies focus on four areas in which the US has a current strategic advantage over China: AI chip designs, electronic design automation software, semiconductor manufacturing equipment and related equipment components
  • There are four interlocking elements of the new policy: (1) impede China’s AI industry by restricting access to high-end AI chips; (2) block China from designing AI chips domestically by cutting off China’s access to US-made chip design software; (3) block China from manufacturing advanced chips by cutting off access to US-built semiconductor manufacturing equipment; and (4) block China from domestically producing semiconductor manufacturing equipment by cutting off access to US-built components
  • China’s fusion of military and civil activities make it difficult to target the former without affecting the latter (prior bans on the sale of high-end Intel Xeon chips to China’s military didn’t work, since shell companies reportedly acted as an intermediary; Chinas military is reportedly still actively using US chip technology2)
  • The new policy: high-end AI chips can no longer be sold to any entity operating in China, whether that is the Chinese military, a Chinese tech company or a US company operating a data center in China. The new rules set a performance standard of what kind of chips can be sold; anything above that level requires an export license from the Dep’t of Commerce which may be subject to “presumption of denial”
  • The US is invoking something called the “foreign direct product rule”. The best way to explain it is to give an example of how it works. Any chip manufacturing operation anywhere in the world that seeks to build high end Chinese chip designs will risk losing its access to US semiconductor manufacturing equipment. As a result, Chinese chip design companies will not be able to outsource manufacturing abroad for advanced AI and supercomputing chips, and for the 28 Chinese organizations on the BIS Entity List, they will be blocked from outsourcing the manufacturing of any types of chips at all. [Note: Almost every advanced semiconductor fabrication facility in the world is critically dependent on US technology companies for initial purchase and ongoing onsite advice, troubleshooting and repair]
  • New licensing requirements for logic chip equipment sales for chips at 16 nanometers (nm) or less ends up blocking the sale of equipment to China that is several years old and already in use. For DRAM (short term memory) the limit will be 18 nm, and for NAND (long term memory) the limits are 128 layers and higher. Translating the semiconductor jargon: the new policies threaten the viability of some of China’s largest memory chip companies (some of whom have been hoarding as much US made equipment as they can)
  • These policies also require all “US persons” (citizens, residents and green card holders) to obtain a license to continue working on development, production or use of integrated circuits at certain Chinese semiconductor facilities

The scale and scope of these restrictions do appear to be unprecedented. While they only apply to a subset of high performance AI-related chips right now (such as those sold by NVIDIA which accounts for 95% of AI chip sales in China), the new chip performance benchmarks are being held constant. In other words, over time, more and more of the semiconductor market will be subject to these restrictions. These new policies complement the recently passed CHIPS Act and its $52 billion for US semiconductor research, manufacturing and workforce development. 

What might happen now? US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan gave a speech last month that suggests that this may not be a one-time thing3:

“Earlier this year, the United States and our allies and partners levied on Russia the most stringent technology restrictions ever imposed on a major economy. These measures have inflicted tremendous costs, forcing Russia to use chips from dishwashers in its military equipment. This has demonstrated that technology export controls can be more than just a preventative tool. If implemented in a way that is robust, durable, and comprehensive, they can be a new strategic asset in the US and allied toolkit to impose costs on adversaries, and even over time degrade their battlefield capabilities”.

Next up: possible restrictions on US entities investing in Chinese technology companies as the focus shifts from the transfer of technology to the transfer of capital4.

Line chart plots the price change since September 2021 of four semiconductor equities and indices: NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, PHL (Philadelphia) Semiconductor Index, FS (FactSet) China Semiconductor Index. The basket of securities performed well until the end of 2021 (with some securities reaching almost +50% returns in November 2021) before declining throughout 2022. Currently, all four securities have returned between -35% to -50% since September 2021.

The Pitcairn Problem: the limited relevance of most small countries with high shares of renewable energy

More reruns: yet another article on tiny countries with high shares of renewable power generation as paragons of the future that are “leading the way” on sustainability without any mention of the factors that limit their relevance for larger developed and developing economies.  The latest piece is on Uruguay, from the New York Times5.  What’s missing is the broader context of how to understand Uruguay, Iceland, Norway, Costa Rica and other “Pitcairn” examples6.

  • Such countries generally have small shares of global GDP, small populations and lower population density.  Low density countries face fewer challenges in terms of siting low density wind and solar power
  • They tend to be much smaller in terms of land area, an important consideration when thinking about the cost of transmission investment to load centers required for onshore and offshore wind, and solar power
  • They often have lower economic complexity (a measure of a country’s ability to produce a wide range of complex products across industries), which requires less developed energy systems
  • Most have abundant hydroelectric resources which contribute the lion’s share of electricity generation.   Developed countries have already built out most of their suitable hydroelectric resources
  • Some have unique geothermal resources (Iceland, Costa Rica, New Zealand), or sugarcane-based biomass whose energy return on investment (“EROI”) is 7x higher than corn-based ethanol (Guatemala and Uruguay)
  • Uruguay is interesting in its use of biomass for backup power when wind conditions are low, and in this regard it shares a lot in common with Denmark, another small country with excellent coastal wind resources (40% capacity factors, similar to Uruguay) that uses biomass (manure, wood waste, energy crops and industrial feedstock) as a replacement for thermal power.  Both small countries also benefit from proximity to much larger ones for grid stabilization services (Uruguay and Brazil, Denmark and Germany)

The combination of these attributes generally makes the Pitcairn group of countries much less relevant for larger, industrialized, urbanized countries.  Most of the latter are pursuing a renewable future based more on wind and solar power, which requires raw materials, project siting, transmission investment and plenty of backup thermal power.  More on all of this in next year’s energy paper.

Appendix charts: market indicators are generally downbeat
Line chart shows year-over-year changes in the US dollar from 1990 to present. The dollar surges during each market crisis. Currently, the dollar is up about 20% year-over-year.
Line chart plots the year-over-year change in percent of three consumer price inflation (CPI) measures from 1985 to present: Cleveland Fed median CPI, Cleveland Fed trimmed mean CPI, and Atlanta Fed sticky CPI. All three CPI indicators are up about 7% year-over-year, their highest rate in the time period shown.
Line chart compares actual trailing earnings growth year-over-year to two earnings leading indicator models from 2001 to now. The models closely follow actual trailing earnings growth and point to more earnings declines ahead.
Line chart compares the change in the Fed funds target rate since the start of a Fed tightening cycle for each cycle from 1958-2022. The chart demonstrates that we are currently in the fastest tightening cycle in over 60 years.
Line chart plots the US housing affordability index from 1970 to present. The index hovered around 160-180 for most of the 2010s, indicating greater housing affordability. Currently, the index has dipped to around 100, which is its lowest affordability since 2007.
Line chart plots job openings plus employment as a percent of labor force from 1951 to July 2022, with any point above 0% signaling more jobs than workers. The chart shows that the US is experiencing the largest worker shortage in the post war era.

1Choking Off China’s Access to the Future of AI”, Gregory Allen, Director, AI Governance Project and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 11, 2022

2Managing the Chinese Military’s Access to AI Chips”, June 2022, Center for Security and Emerging Technology

3Remarks by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the Special Competitive Studies Project Global Emerging Technologies Summit”, September 16, 2022

4White House Weighs Order to Screen US Investment in Tech in China”, WSJ, September 8, 2022

5What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay”, NYT, October 7, 2022

6 Pitcairn Island, current population 47, where HMS Bounty mutineers settled in 1790

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MR. MICHAEL CEMBALEST: Morning everybody and welcome to the October Eye on the Market. This one’s called Reruns, because there are three topics that I’m covering here that for investors are things that we’ve seen before or thought about before, talked about before. First one is on US equity markets, the second one is on the clash between US and China, and the third one is on renewable energy.

So let’s talk about equity markets first. When bear markets happen and the investment mistakes of the prior cycle get revealed, all of a sudden you tend to see bearish investment commentary intensify. And it’s almost like there’s a confessional aspect to some of this research, as if the people that write it are trying to atone for having missed some of the signals and risks during the prior cycle. 

And I read a lot of research, maybe 1,500, 2,000 pages of research a week. And there’s a very consistent message right now that’s very bearish on earnings, valuations, inflation, central bank policy, housing, trade, energy, the surge of the dollar. I’m not saying that these things don’t matter, of course they do, we’ve been talking about them for a while. But at some point, the more markets go down, you have to start to shift your focus from the risks to the cycle to the shift in the cycle. And look, we spent a lot of time talking about young unprofitable companies, Fed mistakes, garbage SPACs, crypto, metaverse, et cetera, 18 months ago. But by the time a lot of assets reprice, it’s time to start shifting our focus towards where things go from here.

And that’s why I wanted to show a whole bunch of these charts. There’s a remarkable consistency. Equities tend to bottom several months, at least, before a lot of other things do during recessions. And I certainly do think the chances of a recession are quite high over the next few quarters, given what going on with Fed policy. 

But let’s take a look at some of these things and start with the Eisenhower recession in the 70s, which was a pretty severe one, and also had not a lot of monetary and physical air drops associated with it. Equities bottomed in December in 1957, and GDP bottomed six, seven months later and then payrolls and then earnings bottomed. And by the time a lot of those GDP and payrolls and earnings and things like that were getting better, the equity markets were already up pretty substantially.

And so there’s a bunch of charts in here for the, as I mentioned, the Eisenhower recession, the stagflation era of the 1970s, the double-dip recession in the 80s, the S&L crisis in the 90s, the global financial crisis 12 years ago, and then the COVID pandemic. In each one of these, the patterns were the same. The equity markets go down first, and then a whole bunch of things go down later.

And so I just want to make sure as investors, that we and you are focused on the equity markets and how they tend to discount in terms of time and magnitude, the declines and other things. So we’ll be following payrolls and we’ll be following the decline in earnings, which is certainly coming, and we’ll be following the decline in GDP. But it’s very important to understand that in almost every cycle, the decline in equity markets predates that by quite a bit. 

And if we had to pick a single variable that does coincide with the bottom in equity markets, it happens to be the ISM manufacturing survey. We’ve talked about this before. If there were any one variable that you had to hang your hat on, the ISM has the closest coincident timing with the bottom in equity markets. And in most cycles, they bought them together within one or two months of each other. The only exception here was the dot-com bubble, recession collapse, where everything was all mixed up. The equity bottom actually happened after the recession and after the decline in earnings. So that’s the one outlier here.

But I have no reason to believe that this cycle is going to be very different from the other six of them. So we’ll be watching the ISM survey closely, has a really good track record of coinciding with equity market bottoms, and I would consider something like 3,200 to 3,300 on the S&P index if we got there sometime this fall or winter, pretty good value for long-term investors.

The second rerun topic is the US and China. And what I mean by rerun is there was a book by Graham Allison. I forgot what year it was written, but it was called The Thucydides Trap. And it had to do with how rising empires compete for power with incumbent empires. And by his account, in 12 of 16 historical examples, competing empires end up in military conflicts with each other. And obviously he’s writing this book as a parallel to the current US/China relationship.

I published a chart at the time when the book came out showing the economic ties between the US and China through bilateral central bank holdings, foreign direct investment and trade that were much higher than all sorts of historical examples.  And my chart was meant to highlight how these unique economic ties between the US and China were different and could end up with a different outcome.

And as things stand now, there are certain aspects of the US/China relationship that are still supporting that general thesis.  In 2021, despite the Trump tariffs, the US imported $540 billion of goods from China, which was almost the same as the pre-trade war peak in 2018.  And China still holds about a trillion dollars of US treasuries and agencies. 

So certain aspects of the US/China relationship are still intact.  Obviously others are not.  There’s been a lot of things changing about the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States and all sorts of policies affecting bilateral flows.  And the latest salvo from the US is probably the way that a lot of people see it who watch this stuff closely, the most comprehensive change in US/China trade policy in decades, and it has to do with semiconductors.  

So when you look at what the Trump Administration did and the steps they took against Huawei, they left open the possibility of future engagement maybe in exchange for Chinese cooperation on other geopolitical areas.  But these latest moves by the Biden administration may close those doors for quite a long time.

So there are four interlocking elements of this new policy, and they all have to do with semiconductors, and specifically the high-end, high-performance semiconductors, where the US has a strategic advantage over China.  So the elements of this new policy are to impede China’s artificial intelligence industry by restricting access to high-end chips to block China from designing those chips domestically by cutting off access to our chip design software, to block China from manufacturing the chips by cutting off access to semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and then to block China from producing the equipment by cutting off access to components.  So it’s a pretty comprehensive policy.

And essentially what the policy states is that high-end chips can no longer be sold to any entity operating in China, whether it’s the Chinese military, a Chinese tech company, or a US company operating at a data center in China.  And export licenses will be needed and according to the Department of Commerce, a lot of these requests are going to be subject to the presumption of denial.

And so we go through a little bit more of the details here.  There’s an excellent piece from the Center for Strategic and International Studies that goes through a lot of the details, and we summarize that here.  The bottom line is that some of the new policies are pretty restrictive.  Any chip manufacturing operation anywhere in the world that seeks to build high-end chip designs will end up, may end up losing its access to US semiconductor, manufacturing, equipment, support, advice, repair, et cetera.

So this is a pretty big deal.  Some of the policies only apply to super-high-end chips, but the performance standards are being held constant.  So over time, more and more of the semiconductor markets going to be subject to these restrictions.  And when you read the comments from National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, it makes it pretty clear that the US is looking at these kinds of things as a new strategic asset in the US toolkit, which he describes as imposing costs on adversaries and even over time, degrading their battlefield capabilities.

And what’s up next, there’s talk of restrictions on US entities investing capital in Chinese technology companies as the focus shifts from the transfer of technology to the transfer of capital.  We wrote a paper in our institutional business.  We have a strategic advisory investment committee and we write one or two papers a year, and the last one was on de-globalization.  And this certainly is another element in the de-globalization, in the gradual de-globalization that’s taking place, all of which has the potential to raise the cost of goods and services in places that are trying to now rebuild and re-onshore all sorts of production and supply chain capability.

The last rerun topic is on renewable energy and what I’m calling the Pitcairn problem, which are press articles that you see all the time on tiny countries that have very high shares of renewable power generation, mentioning them as paragons of the future that are leading the way on sustainability, without mentioning any of the factors that limit their relevance for everybody else, and specifically for the larger developed and developing economies.

The latest example of this is a piece in The New York Times on Uruguay, which was a great read and very interesting.  The problem is it was completely missing, as these articles usually do, the broader context of how to understand countries like Uruguay, Iceland, Norway, Costa Rica, and other similar tiny places in terms of how they’re getting these high shares of renewable power generation.

So first of all, most of these countries tend to have very small shares of global GDP, very small populations, and low population density.  They also tend to have lower economic complexity, which measures a country’s ability to produce a wide range of goods and services.  That means they need less developed energy systems.

They also tend to be pretty small in terms of land area, which is a very important consideration when you think about the transmission investment required to bring wind and solar power to where the load centers are.  So it’s one thing to build wind on the shore of Denmark to power things in Denmark.  It’s another thing to build wind in certain places in the United States and have to transmit that to where the load centers are; it’s very different.

But the biggest issues are the ones that don’t get discussed enough.  If you find a country that has anywhere, 40, 50, 60, 70% renewable shares, chances are it gets the lion’s share of its electricity generation from hydroelectric power.  And most developed, and even a lot of developing countries have already built out their suitable hydroelectric resources, and so it can be very misleading to be talking about these paragons of renewable generation that happen to be small little places with spectacular hydroelectric resources.

Some of the other ones have really unique geothermal resources, like Iceland, Costa Rica, and New Zealand, or they have a lot of sugar cane-based biomass.  And the reason that it’s important to specify sugar cane is that sugar cane-based biomass has seven or eight times more energy per unit of investment than corn ethanol does, and Guatemala and Uruguay are examples of that.

So the combination of all these attributes makes this little Pitcairn group of countries much less relevant for everybody else.  They’re interesting to learn about.  But the big developed and developing countries in the world are pursuing a renewable energy future based not on hydroelectric and not on geothermal and not on sugar cane-based biomass, but on a lot more wind and solar power and maybe some of that being used to produce hydrogen, all of which requires a lot of raw materials, a lot of critical minerals, a lot of project- siting, a lot of transmission investment, and plenty of backup thermal power for when those other things are working.

So more of that on, more of all of this in next year’s energy paper.  But I did want you to, everyone to understand the limitations of some of these smaller countries and their relevance for everybody else.  And there are some tables in here with lots of statistics that you might find interesting.

So that’s enough for now.  We will probably talk to you again after the midterms, which I don’t really expect to be much of a market-moving event compared to everything else that’s going on with the Fed and the pending recession, declining earnings, and everything else.  So thanks for listening, see you next time.

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