Perhaps the best tool for anticipating major shifts in the financial system is the ratio between iShares TIPS Bond (NYSE:TIP): and the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (NASDAQ:TLT).
In its simplest form, when this ratio rallies, the financial system is anticipating IN-flation. When this ratio falls, the financial system is anticipating DE-flation.
Below is a 10 year chart for this ratio. And as you can see, it has just broke out of a 10-year deflationary channel.
This is an absolute game-changer.
If this breakout continues, then we have a confirmed shift in the entire financial system away from fearing deflation to expecting inflation.
The impact this will have on all asset classes will be massive. And it’s about to blow up the Everything Bubble.
Bonds trade based on inflation.
If inflation rises, so do bond yields.
When bond yields Rise, bond prices FALL.
And when bond prices FALL, the massive debt bubble begins to burst.
On that note, the yield on the most important bond in the world: the 10-Year Treasury, has already broken above its 20-year trendline.
The US is not alone… the yield on 10-Year German Bunds has also broken its downtrend.
Even Japan’s sovereign bonds are coming into the “inflationary” crosshairs with yields on the 10-Year Japanese Government Bond just beginning to break about their long-term downtrend.
Globally the world has added over $60 trillion in debt since 2007… and all of this was based on interest rates that were close to or even below ZERO.
All of this is at risk of blowing up courtesy of this spike inflation. And it’s going to collapse most asset classes in ways we haven’t seen since 2008.
On that note, we are putting together an Executive Summary outlining all of these issues as well as what’s in terms of Fed Policy when The Everything Bubble bursts.