Deutsche Bank: Global Assets Overvalued More Than Anytime in History

Deutsche Bank Warns: "We’re in a period of very elevated global asset prices – possibly the most elevated in aggregate through history."

For many years I have warned in my end times prophecy books that before WWIII or the Great Tribulation there will be the social meltdown caused by horrific economic collapse.  We are being warned it could be imminent; pay attention to the facts in excerpts from the Zerohedge article below:

"Figure 57 updates our analysis looking at an equal weighted index of 15 DM government bond and 15 DM equity markets back to 1800. For bonds we simply look at where nominal yields are relative to history and arrange the data in percentiles. So a 100% reading would mean a bond market was at its lowest yield ever and 0% the highest it had ever been. For equities valuations are more challenging to calculate, especially back as far as we want to go. 

As can be seen, at an aggregate level, an equally weighted bond/equity portfolio has never been more expensive. Figure 58 shows that bonds are much closer to 100% than equities though and Figure 59 then looks at the raw data for bonds showing average G7 yields back to 1800.

It’s easier to be black and white in terms of bonds long-term value. In short there isn’t any relative to history.

For equities, current valuations are certainly stretched relative to nominal GDP through history. We have been more expensive but we are approaching the peaks of 2000 and 2007 and are in line with the most stretched valuations from the 1930s on this metric and higher than the 1929 crash point.