The inflation crisis of 2022 made investors focus solely on danger, not opportunity. Powell signaling time to look at latter. YE rally to be fueled by Tech + Small-caps + High P/E + Heavily Shorted

In 2022, the inflation "crisis" has made investors solely focus on "danger" not "opportunity"

I am on my way to Tokyo/Osaka for a few days, traveling with SMBC Nikko, which is our business partner in Japan. Japan is one of my favorite countries to visit. The nation has a distinct and charming culture, art in the food and general pride among its citizens that is impressive.

  • Japan is also an impressive nation of savers. The household wealth of Japan is $25 trillion, ranking #3 in the world (USA and China) and 50% more wealth than Germany.
  • It might surprise many but Asia equity markets are overall 30% of the global trading and market cap share.
  • This is our first visit since 2019. Prior to the pandemic, John Bai and I travelled to Japan twice a year spending almost two weeks a year with SMBC Nikko and their clients.

And as we prepared for our trip, the Japanese word for "crisis" was shared with me by two folks I work with closely:

  • Brian O'Day who noted that Williams Inference logo was the Chinese word "crisis" and is comprised of two key words (see below)
  • And by sheer coincidence, tireless Ken (quad lingual Ken) had mentioned the Japanese word for "crisis" is "kiki" which in kanji (Japanese) is shown below.
The words are same in Chinese and Japanese. Notice the ...

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