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Vaccinations

2/25/2021

 
We are a year into the Covid 19 global pandemic. Our U.S. neighbour and major trading relationship has exceeded 500,000 deaths due to the necropolitics of the Trump Administration. My April 2020 Blog Post covered this democidal behavior in detail. Unfortunately the BIG LIE(s) that Trump spawned continues unabated in the highest levels of the U.S. Congress and has stunted critical thinking ability among legislators and a large percentage of their electorate. The "big lies" have infected Canada:
“Ideologically motivated violent extremists and others are using the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to promote disinformation and alternative narratives regarding both the cause of the pandemic and potential societal outcomes. anti-government extremists, in particular, have been using COVID-19 conspiracy theories to attract followers, raise money and encourage violence." A Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Report via GlobalNews.ca DEC  2020. And from the MAY 2020 CSIS Report: "COVID-19 has had a profound impact on our country and the world. This uncertain environment is ripe for exploitation by threat actors seeking to advance their own interests."
The rest of us want to get vaccinated because we have read the history and we know what happens when a viral pandemic is unleashed in a population that is ill equipped.

With thanks and a big Hat Tip to Trevor Tombe @trevortombe here are some charts of the latest vaccination detail that I have mashed up: 
Covid Chart
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Covid Chart
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Pandemic Update

1/31/2021

 
Pandemic Update
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Pandemic Update
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While we wait for January 2020 real estate data, here is the ​Worldometers GLOBAL Covid 19 Coronavirus Data Update with charts. 
  • % Deaths of Total Cases = 2%
  • ​% Recovereds of Total Cases = 73%
​I will update each month end to see the change in global monthly percentages in total global Covid 19 cases, deaths, recovereds and deaths per cases.
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Pandemic Update
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Pandemic Update
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Zero Percent 20 Year Fixed

1/9/2021

 
Zero % mortgages
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Yeah, that's correct. On January 5, 2021, Bloomberg reported in a News Brief that: 
Back in 2012, policy makers drove their main rate below zero to defend the krone’s peg to the euro. Since then, Danish homeowners have enjoyed continuous slides in borrowing costs. (and) ​The country with the longest history of negative central bank rates is offering homeowners 20-year loans at a fixed interest rate of zero.
The Bloomberg brief goes on to explain that:
Danish Monthly Earnings
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Denmark has a so-called pass-through system in which mortgages are directly tied to the covered bonds used to fund the loans. Lenders act as brokers between borrowers and investors, generating income from fees, not interest rates. Borrowers get the coupon rate, though the effective cost is generally a bit higher because bonds rarely sell at par.

​(and) ​As rates have continued to sink, other banks in Denmark -- home to the world’s biggest mortgage-backed covered-bond market -- are joining Nordea. (and) Demand is there, Lisa Bergmann, chief housing economist at Nordea Kredit, said in a note. The bonds backing the mortgages are likely to price close to a record high, she said. (full brief here)

I mashed up the chart above from Statista.com to show the average monthly salary in Denmark in 2019 by educational level and converted into CAD on today's FX rate via xe.com (1 DKK = 0.21 CAD). In July 2019 it was +/-1 DKK = 0.2 CAD. Close enough.

​The chart below from StatCan shows the a
verage monthly earnings or employment income, all ages and highest certificate, diploma or degree in 2016 in Canada.
Canada Earnings by Education
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Cost of Living Index
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Cost of Living Index

PRICES IN CANADA ARE LOWER
  • Consumer Prices in Canada are 24.02% lower than in Denmark (without rent)
  • Consumer Prices Including Rent in Canada are 20.60% lower than in Denmark
  • Rent Prices in Canada are 11.14% lower than in Denmark
  • Restaurant Prices in Canada are 38.97% lower than in Denmark
  • Groceries Prices in Canada are 6.69% lower than in Denmark
  • Local Purchasing Power in Canada is 13.11% lower than in Denmark
Source: Numbeo.com

But Commute Times are Greater

​Affordability is the ability for any urban household to be able to rent a dwelling for less than a 25% of its monthly income, or to buy one for less than about three time its yearly income.

​The mobility and affordability objectives are tightly related. ​A residential location that only allows access to only a small segment of the job market in less than an hour commuting time has not much value to households, even if it is theoretically affordable.​
Quality of Life Index
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"As a city develops, nothing is more important than maintaining mobility and housing affordability." Alain Bertaud
See also my Demographia (Price / Income) Ranks of Canadian Cities. They are affordable when the ratio is under 3 but are severely unaffordable when over 5.

See also my long term Canadian Earnings and Employment charts updated monthly.

Pandemic Update

12/31/2020

 
Pandemic Data
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Pandemic Data
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​While we wait for December 2020 real estate data, here is the ​Worldometers GLOBAL Covid 19 Coronavirus Data Update with charts. 
  • % Deaths of Total Cases = 2%
  • ​% Recovereds of Total Cases = 71%
​I will update each month end to see the change in global monthly percentages in total global Covid 19 cases, deaths, recovereds and deaths per cases.

Pandemic Data
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6 MONTH GLOBAL COVID 19 PERCENTAGE INCREASES
​[ Cases = 371% ]  [ Deaths = 167% ]  [ Recovereds = 430% ]

Pandemic Data
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Interest Rates Matter

12/28/2020

 
Interest Rates Matter
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BoC Rate Forecast
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Fixed Rate Forecast
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A tweet from @JohnPasalis last week caught my attention; it included a chart (left) of the number of home sales the week before Christmas plotted over the last 10 years. The end of year swarm of sales by the FOMO 2.0 crowd is a 10 year record (maybe longer) of over 40% more than the highest of previous years recorded. Wow.

I mashed up the chart with end of year data for average SF Detached Y/Y price increases and the Bank of Canada 10 year bond rate. It looks to me that as interest rates drop, the demand rises for physical assets. This can also been seen since the asset crash into March 2009 in my chart of SF Detached, Bitcoin and Gold. And if we look at the "Real" BoC Bank Rate chart which has been mostly negative since the 2009 crash, it becomes even more evident that the reach for yield comes at the expense of risk management.

Although the Bank of Canada rejects the policy use of negative nominal rates (chart left), real negative rates continue to animate the FOMO crowd and force the weaker hands into lower consumption and higher savings to repair balance sheets.

At the retail street level, the major banks all agree in their forecast statements (chart left) that 5 year fixed mortgage rates will remain well under 3% for at least the next two full years through 2022.

These projections may not unfold as suggested; a 2020 Bank of England Staff Working Paper "Eight centuries of global real interest rates, wealth returns and broader real growth, and the ‘suprasecular’ decline, 1311–2018" concludes in part:
"The data here suggests that the “historically implied” safe asset provider long-term real rate stands at 1.56% for the year 2018, which would imply that against the backdrop of inflation targets at 2%, nominal advanced economy rates may no longer rise sustainably above 3.5%. Whatever the precise dominant driver – simply extrapolating such long-term historical trends suggests that negative real rates will not just soon constitute a “new normal” – they will continue to fall constantly. By the late 2020s, global short term real rates will have reached permanently negative territory. By the second half of this century, global long-term real rates will have followed."
The Bank of Canada Real Long Rate approached negative 1% in 2018 and with the Covid 19 lock down it pressed below negative 1% in 2020.

CPI is currently 0.5% (NOV 2020 print) and has been rising since the March 2020 lock down; this inflationary pressure will keep real rates muted and the Bank of Canada expects "CPI inflation to arrive at 0.2% for 2020 and remain below 2% until 2023." (DEC 9, 2020 BoC update)
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Time to Recover from Covid 19
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Consumer Spending Drops with Covid19
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80% of Canadians work in Service Sector
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The Brookings Institution provides current World Data Lab projections indicating that there are four projected patterns of recoveries.

​Canada is projected to "recover" from the coronavirus perhaps in 2023 or 2024, and that Consumer Spending in North America is down nearly 1% Y/Y and is projected to continue dropping (charts left).
Zero or positive growth in spending per capita. This group includes China, Egypt, Vietnam, Taiwan, Bangladesh, and most countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Fast recovery in spending per capita: recovery by 2021-2022. These “fast recovers” represent a wide mix of countries, including India, most of Europe, and much of Southeast Asia.

Medium recovery in spending per capita: recovery by 2023-2024. This group includes large economies, such as the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Brazil, and most of South America.

Slow recovery in spending per capita: recovery completed after 2025. This group includes Mexico, most of the Middle East, and parts of sub-Saharan Africa.
The drop in consumption affects employment (chart) especially in service related sectors which is where nearly 80% of Canadians earn their paycheques (Workforce Distribution chart left is from Statista.com). As noted on my Household Debt chart, "The widening spread between total household debt and household mortgages means we are borrowing even more to maintain lifestyle.​" But this trend requires positive cash flow which has been pinched for many Canadian households.

Peak Oil Says BP

12/6/2020

 
BP estimates Peak Oil in 2019
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BP estimates oil demand will drop with behavior changes
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BP noted that Electric Vehicle sales outperformed ICE
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BP PLC (British Petroleum), one the seven oil and gas "supermajors" (Wikipedia) has released its 2020 oil demand projections and in February 2020 announced a new purpose – "to reimagine energy for people and our planet... ​​​​by a new ambition, to be a net-zero company by 2050 or sooner and to help get the world to net zero." (Full 2020 81 page report here)

Bloomberg picked up the story "Peak Oil is Suddenly Upon Us" and republished some of the detail November 30th; I mashed up a few charts.

​Bloomberg made the observation that:
The list of energy analysts who now foresee a peak in oil demand keeps growing. It includes Norway’s state-owned oil company Equinor (peaking around 2027-28), Norwegian energy researcher Rystad Energy (2028), French oil major Total SA (2030), consulting firm McKinsey (2033), clean-energy research group BloombergNEF (2035), and energy-industry advisors Wood Mackenzie (2035). The exporting nations of OPEC put the peak in 2040 while acknowledging that its new forecast might still prove too optimistic for oil. Notable exceptions include the International Energy Agency, which sees demand “plateauing” but not quite peaking...
On December 3rd, Bloomberg published "Germany’s Electric-Car Market Is Poised to Overtake California’s" and noted that:
Europe is taking unprecedented steps to phase out gasoline and diesel cars, with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson banning sales of cars that lack a plug from 2030. Germany last month said it will extend cash bonuses for purchasing EVs until 2025, expand the country’s charging network and make payments for topping up batteries easier. California will phase out sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035...

​A highlight from the International Energy Agency November 2020 Fuel Report projects that "Renewables are set to lead the global electricity sector."
​Cost reductions and sustained policy support are expected to drive strong renewables growth beyond 2022. Despite the challenges emerging from the Covid crisis, the fundamentals of renewable energy expansion have not changed. Solar PV and onshore wind are already the cheapest ways of adding new electricity-generating plants in most countries today. In countries where good resources and cheap financing are available, wind and solar PV plants will challenge existing fossil fuel plants. Solar projects now offer some of the lowest-cost electricity in history. Overall, renewables are set to account for 95% of the net increase in global power capacity through 2025.

Total installed wind and solar PV capacity is on course to surpass natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024. Solar PV alone accounts for 60% of all renewable capacity additions through 2025, and wind provides another 30%. Driven by further cost declines, annual offshore wind additions are set to surge, accounting for one-fifth of the total wind annual market in 2025. Offshore’s growth moves beyond Europe to new markets such as China and the United States where ample potential remains. The rapid growth of variable renewables around the world calls for increased policy attention to ensure they are securely and cost-effectively integrated into electricity systems.

​​BloombergNEF Presentation: New Energy Outlook 2020

Seb Hebnest, Chief Economist at BloombergNEF gives a presentation about the outlook for renewable energies in 2020 at the Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit Global virtual event. NOV 30, 2020


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​QuantumScape is building a better electric car battery that it says charges to 80% in 15 minutes (CNBC) DEC 8, 2020

  • Volkswagen-backed QuantumScape is building a solid-state lithium metal battery for electric vehicles that it says will be safer and better than the cells on the market today.
  • In extensive testing, QuantumScape found that its batteries should allow a car to charge to 80% of its full capacity in about 15 minutes.
  • QuantumScape’s board includes ex-Tesla CTO JB Straubel and SolarCity CFO Brad Buss, along side Volkswagen execs, Juergen Leohold and Frank Blome, among others.
    ​

QuantumScape isn’t alone in its quest to build a better battery. Ultimately, the company will compete with stalwart battery manufacturers like CATL and BYD in China, Panasonic, LG, Samsung and others that manufacture lithium ion battery cells. It will also compete against Tesla, which has designed and started producing some of its own cells, and other companies building solid-state batteries, like Solid Power and Toyota. ​(CNBC) DEC 8, 2020

Pandemic Update

11/30/2020

 
Pandemics over time
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Pandemic Monthly data
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​​While we wait for November 2020 real estate data, here is the ​Worldometers GLOBAL Covid 19 Coronavirus Data Update with charts. 
  • % Deaths of Total Cases = 2%
  • ​% Recovereds of Total Cases = 69%
​I will update each month end to see the change in global monthly percentages in total global Covid 19 cases, deaths, recovereds and deaths per cases.

Pandemic Log chart
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6 MONTH GLOBAL COVID 19 PERCENTAGE INCREASES
​[ Cases = 502% ]  [ Deaths = 187% ]  [ Recovereds = 660% ]

data table of Covid cases
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Castrated By The Zero Bound

11/29/2020

 
Historical Real Rates
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Low Rates Affect Spending
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Company Lifespans are Changing
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Here are some additional charts and a continuation of my May 28th, 2020 post titled "Suprasecular Decline" that suggests the financial recovery from Covid 19 is unlikely to be V-shaped.
"Central banks all over the world are using the fiscal side of their balance sheet...  Monetary policy is essentially castrated by the zero bound." Kenneth Rogoff (and Carmen Reinhart) speaking with Bloomberg, May 24, 2020
Low rates have indeed animated the animal spirits and driven up asset prices, but these same low rates now are signaling a major change in consumption behaviour.

Covid 19 is rearranging the deck chairs for us and the lower rates now compared to just a few years ago are not as effective as they were at driving price and wage increases because consumption priorities are changing very quickly. This is showing up in the lifespan of S&P 500 companies which are projected to become shorter in duration through the end of this decade as the market place switches to working from home, buying online and investing in just-in-time services.
The Richard Bernstein Advisors CEO recently told CNBC that the market dominance of Big Tech is a "very bearish sign" for the economy and corporate profits, which has historically been the largest driver of stock gains. Bernstein pointed to the outperformance of the tech-heavy Nasdaq versus broader indexes, and said that narrow leadership in the market is "an end-of-cycle event."  Markets.BusinessInsider.com, November 8, 2020

Covid 19 Impacts
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Pandemic Update

10/31/2020

 
Global Covid 19 data
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Global Covid 19 Data
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While we wait for October 2020 real estate data, here is the ​Worldometers global Covid 19 CoronaVirus Data Update with charts showing monthly percentages of deaths per cases (3%).

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Global Covid 19 data
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The Donald Has Scored Redux

10/30/2020

 
And this for my American readers as they prepare for their national election on November 3rd. 
​Sarah Cooper and Helen Mirren spoof the famous Billy Bush Hollywood Access Tape where "the Donald" explains how to score with women.
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The Year(s) of the Woman

In the 2018 midterm elections, the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, won control of the House. The Democrats gained a net total of 41 seats from the total number of seats they had won in the 2016 elections. The 41-seat gain was the Democrats' largest gain of House seats since the post-Watergate 1974 elections, when they picked up 49 seats. The Democrats also won the popular vote by a margin of 8.6%, the largest margin on record for a party that previously held a minority in the House. Turnout was the highest for a midterm election in more than a century, with over half the electorate casting ballots. (Wikipedia)
In 2016, women widened the gap between women and men voters:
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Women vs Men voters in US elections since 1980
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IF DONALD GOT FIRED
Randy Rainbow Parody featuring Patti LuPone!


4 days away from the U.S. national election and Biden leads by 7.8 points in the Real Clear Politics Poll Average:
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Biden Leads by 7.8
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