PODCAST: “Spooky Markets: Predictions and Perspectives for Halloween Week” | Cents of Things Ep 78
Nov 19, 2024
TRANSCRIPT
hello sense of things it’s Jeff and Ron
here once again with another episode of
the sense of things Today’s Show we’re
going to focus a little bit on uh some
kind of ant or some predictions in the
market that Ron’s looked up he’s got a
couple of Halloween facts for us because
once again it is Halloween week here in
the world so stay tuned we’ll be right
back in just a second
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hey everybody it’s Jeff and Ron here
once again with the sense of things and
Ron how are you friend good morning
doing well loving the weather I know
you’re a weather nerd it’s all good
looking forward to the holiday season I
love the holiday season everybody’s
smiling we got good weather here in
Arizona so looking forward to it I’m
moving Arizona dude it’s freaking hot in
Texas that’s all I can say what’s an
open
invite yes it is brutal and humid here
in Texas and it’s humid and we haven’t
had any rain for 57 or 58 days straight
just absolutely nuts October’s usually
our our rainiest month and it was not
rainy and the hottest month ever in
history so read into it however you want
I know those of you that think it’s
global warming it’s global warming I
just think it’s Texas and it does what
it does bigger and better in Texas right
I’m liking Arizona weather though 60
degrees so that’s oh in the morning
afternoon afternoons now it’s mid late
70s low 80s little very single digit low
double digit humidity it’s wonderful oh
brilliant yeah that kills me but big
time golf season here yeah nice all
right man you’re you’re gonna run the
showday so tell us what we got all right
so let’s start off with some fun stuff
we did the mug shocks last year this
year this is your your some really good
work uniforms for the cold Halloween so
this level 500 uh cold calling and if
you don’t know how call centers work you
got level one two and three level one
are always the neo fights on the phone
so here’s your rockar cold collar with a
dramatic headset a standing desk and
he’s gonna lie I’ve got he’s gonna lock
in baby he’s ready to go he’s ready to
go one size fits most the lamest cost I
love it you got a big noggin you might
need an extender on it yeah oh no that’s
yeah I can’t buy hat so here we go
that’s our cold caller let’s move
on to our unhinged social media manager
there she is ladies and gentlemen she’s
got the me Library folder ready to go
she’s got a full 5 112 gab phone storage
and of course she’s got her portable
charger for the permanent two 2% battery
that’s what we have folks because
they’re always charging because they’re
always on the phone and their eyes never
look up ladies and gentlemen this is our
unhinged social media manager there she
is one size fits most you and I may be
able to do the phone yeah I want my hair
done like that though I think youd look
cute Crystal would love that on you he
I’m a man Bund guy what can I tell you
there I want to look like a samurai I
want to get out my
Katana you didn’t think I knew what a
katana was did you all right I I didn’t
say you didn’t know what a katana all
right all right and our last one is it’s
Brian from there he is ladies and
gentlemen he’s got a bunch of Suits
they’re all 50 Shades of Black there
they are he’s got a scales of Justice
desk accessory and of course he’s got a
private social media account
very you could be Ryan from legal with
an official stop sign for you to walk
around you choose your shade of black
get it today this could also be a
financial compliance officer too so the
sales prevention department only in
broker scumbag offices yes that’s true
that is true and that looks like the
face at with Brian that would be that
person that is exactly right he’s
sitting there in the Boiler Room looking
out the window at it that at the call
center there he is holding up his green
and red sign and twisting it around and
you could do a combo if you had the the
cold caller and him together it could
work perfectly you could have a broker
Brian from legal is standing in front of
his cubicle yes perfect all you got to
do folks is watch the movie Boiler Room
from 99 or 2000 and the Wolf of Wall
Street and you’ll know exactly what
we’re talking about in case you’re
slightly lost and don’t get the rest I
refused to watch either movie I’ve never
seen either have no interest in seeing
them so it’s a good to Tequila movie
what can I tell you it’ll tell you how
things should not be done that is
exactly right right I hear you all right
let’s get into some serious stuff so
rather ironically this just came out in
the last couple week so David coste
who’s on all of the networks and writes
some articles with Goldman Sachs one of
the most reputable firms on Wall Street
rather ironically you would think that
some of them would be pumping up numbers
no matter who wins the election things
like that but he’s coming out saying
look maybe we run a little too far too
fast and the AI story aside there’s a
good possibility that over the next 10
years I don’t even know how you could
look out 10 months that over the next 10
years that we may have a nominal
annualized growth of 3% a year and I
find this quite shocking even though I
have been a bit pessimistic and a little
bit of a bear on the market the last
couple years years I think the next year
and a half is going to be pretty good no
matter who wins but the next 10 years 3%
a year people AR going to like that
which only tells me correct me if I’m
wrong that means people may find real
returns in the bond market your thoughts
yeah yeah and maybe that 6040 balance
portfolio comes back into the reality
mode it hasn’t been for gez what five
six years now couple years definitely
yeah and and that had been the long term
I remember getting into this industry
that the 6040 mix was the the standard
thing and I haven’t been I haven’t been
anywhere close to 40% in bonds for God
probably 10 years back now just because
yeah but don’t forget too in addition of
the 4060 rule there was the 4%
withdrawal rule that may have worked 30
40 years ago but that’s been debunked
today also yeah yeah absolutely the two
people that really developed that rule
were phds so people feel like they got
alphabet soup after their name but has
to work the whole idea is past results
are not indicative of future return so
give me a break yep I’m with you I’m I
hear you let’s keep going other thing
that he was talking about I just put it
here you guys could look all this up go
to I got this off of LinkedIn you know
basically this is always post all social
media platforms but it’s not necessarily
the stock price or the equity Price
Right EPS earnings per share earnings is
the me mother’s milk of true valuation
of assets are you I don’t care great
your revenu is growing at 3% or excuse
me at 30% but you’re you’re you’re
losing a billion and a half a year
that’s great for startup or a unicorn
kind of company right but for an
established company that’s not going to
work for future stock prices so I think
what he’s looking at here and this makes
no sense he’s looking at the trajectory
of eps going up but returns normalizing
at 3% and if you think about it if we’re
looking at a 2% inflation number that’s
not real good
no I don’t I honestly don’t like his I I
don’t get the CH anyhow so it doesn’t
make any sense to me and you know
whatever most of these guys that try and
do these long-term forecasts I’m like
the problem is nobody’s going to
remember you made this stupid ass
forecast in 10 years from now corre so
you can say whatever the you want to
today but nobody’s going to remember
what how wrong you were and and there’s
always a market for people that are just
absolute morons about the market somehow
nuriel El rabini has kept his job
for as long as Doom yeah yeah Dr Doom
I’m like the Market’s gonna go down yeah
it will eventually you idiot but I if I
had have listened to you I would have
made no money for the last 35 five years
look there’s four guys out there noro
orini is one of them another one is Mark
Faber if you remember him the German guy
who always just says keep buying gold
he’s only been in the last 12 years he’s
only been writing the last year the
other two guys are Peter Schiff and
Michael Pento these two guys are just
Perma bears and maybe they’re right
every three to five years but somehow
they stay in business they make money
and people give them money to invest for
I just think it’s crazy I I don’t even
know she still alive yeah the one I
haven’t heard from in a long time I
don’t even know if she’s still alive or
elain
garzarelli that when we were first I
don’t know that name yeah she was big
back she used to be on the old Lou Riser
show and she was right one time in her
entire life she was she predicted the
1987 market crash and she rode that
puppy for as long as she possibly could
and then just disappeared swam and I
don’t even know if she’s still alive she
may not even be alive anymore but listen
out of the financial crisis in
0809 there were a couple of people that
I don’t think anybody saw the end result
as far as the depth of it but many
people saw that something was going to
happen and they rode that level of
credibility for a while many of them
started their own businesses and they
were on TV every week and they all went
away yeah they all went
away around and maybe in the back door
of or the back office of some big office
now but that’s what happens with a lot
of them funny thing is I I remember yeah
I remember somebody was talking about
that it was like a commentator or
something like this on CNBC and he was
talking about some of these you know
people that oh they were the they called
this they called that and he said here’s
how I explain it he because every time
whether you know any event that happens
you have a 5050 shot of guessing what
Direction it’s going to go so if you
guess it the first time okay you’re in
half the crowd if you get it right again
you’re now a pundit if you get it right
again you’re the guru that the market
goes after so that’s three decisions in
your entire career that you got right
and you’re now the guru about it and
elain garzarelli is still alive I don’t
I haven’t heard a word from her from
ever and I the pictures I see of her
were still with her fuzzy hair
hair cres yeah so before we get to the
last slide here I saw some great I L I
mean I’m an analytical weenie and I love
charts and I love listening to people
review
them what people don’t realize don’t
hold me to this number because I
actually think it’s a little bit higher
on
average here’s in the
market from the during a calendar year
the market is up 70% of the time time
meaning 70% of the years it’s an up
Market sure whether it’s a half or 1% or
it’s up 30% it’s up 70% of the time and
we all saw coming out of covid right
there was three years in a row where we
were up double digits you had to have
expected maybe a down year in 2022 plus
it’s the second year of a presidential
year which is typically a down year so
if you just look at Cycles you got to
expect this stuff right so it’s just a
matter of setting expectations but
overall this is where that Theory comes
into play just stay invested all right
absolutely talking about staying
invested uh research firm 314 and you
could look them up they got some really
good stuff out there I’m not a
subscriber but I peeled some of this
stuff off of social media I know it’s a
little tough to read you could freeze
the screen and read the report or go on
to LinkedIn or X and download it
yourself but the two founders of the
company really bright I’ve seen them on
podcast I’ve seen them on TV really
bright and uh they’re talking about a
7,000 S&P by the end of 2026 I don’t
disagree the only thing that I may take
uage with is they’re talking by the end
of 2026 which is the second year of a
new presidential election year we’ll
have to see one one president wants to
lower interest rates so far he we may
get a huge lift in the economy but we
may burn out too
and the other one maybe isn’t business
friendly we’re not going there but my
whole point is there’s a lot of unknowns
in year two with a president in an a
term presidential term mainly because
the first year is the over
Administration and it takes six months
to a year to basically try and get any
kind of an agenda through
Congress that’s why in 2008 that’s why
it took over a year to get the new tax
thing done in
2018 because it had to get through the
Sausage Factory it’s going to be the
same thing again because the 2018 tax
cuts expire the end of next year so they
have to get that going or the 2018
sunsets and the old numbers revert
back so we’ll have to see what happens
but I thought this was interesting what
are some of your thoughts I agree with
you and I think we’re in for probably a
pretty good Q4 history says that it
doesn’t matter who wins cuz half the
we’re roughly halfly or half split
between Republicans and Democrats with
some Independence in there and at least
half the country is going to think the
world is going to be wonderful next
Tuesday maybe Wednesday who knows when
that when they count everything gon take
longer yeah I don’t know the good part I
think about this time I I was listening
to the news this morning and one of the
kind of normal attorney pundit that was
on there she’s like I’m really excited
that a lot of the um legal challenges
are going on now instead of waiting
until after the election and then it’s
all this we don’t really know what’s
going on and were people voting who
weren’t supposed to vote and all that so
a lot of those legal challenges
hopefully are going on now getting them
out of the way so that okay we get to
election night whoever wins and we don’t
have to go like we have the last several
elections we don’t have to go six months
of legal challenges afterwards and
nothing ever happens out of it I I think
the good part is hopefully we have a we
have a good solid election where there’s
not a lot of questions and we can move
on and half the country is going to be
happy and half won’t be so typically the
Market’s going to go up anyhow at this
point well not only that but it’s just
the certainty all right yeah we’re
better for worse whatever you think we
know who’s going to be there for the
next four years we know the agenda so
let invest in what we think is
appropriate money will flow out I heard
there was like 6.7 million in money
markets and cash equivalence that will
find its way at least some of that will
find its way to the market after the
election no doubt yeah you’ve seen it
with gold and everything else Gold’s
down a little bit today from where it’s
been but it’s been ridiculously running
like crazy for the last three to four
months I will say the next two podcasts
are going to be interesting because
it’ll be post election yep and post
employment report a lot of good stuff
going to the end of the year and
certainly we’re going to have a mid
December Market Outlook for 2025 for
everybody we’ll do a special episode for
that and look at where our predictions
were for this year yeah some for next
year I I think we were both wildly
pessimistic in comparison to hey better
it exceed our expectation than below so
that’s precisely correct yeah I’m right
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