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source Episode summary Updated 2026-08-06 Tags: Podcast, Macro, Investing, Geopolitics, China, United-States, Ai, Markets

161. 全球宏观和资本市场2026一季度复盘与展望

Summary

This [[QizhulouYanBinke|起朱楼宴宾客]] live Beijing episode records [[DavidWeng|大卫翁]] and Ricky on 2026-03-23, after Asian markets had fallen sharply but before the U.S. session opened. It updates 153.全球宏观和资本市场2026展望：大年之后，仍是大年？ by moving the 2026 frame from a risk-appetite window toward Geopolitical Cycle Macro, Stagflation Risk Repricing / 滞胀风险重估, liquidity pressure, AI financing risk, and policy response.

The practical allocation conclusion becomes more defensive without abandoning China assets. Ricky is cautious on U.S. equities, especially technology, sees A shares as relatively better supported, and treats Hong Kong as short-term neutral but long-term structurally interesting; [[DavidWeng|大卫翁]] also prioritizes A shares in the near term while keeping long-term interest in Hong Kong central/state-owned firms and core [[HangSengTechIndex|Hang Seng Tech]] companies with technology, talent, and data accumulation.

Key Claims

  • The recording is source-dated to 2026-03-23, so the market comments should be read as a live snapshot after that day’s Asia selloff and before the U.S. market opened.
  • The episode qualifies the January 2026 outlook: the year began with broad institutional optimism about risk appetite, but the first quarter turned quickly toward risk-off, stagflation, recession, and liquidity-stress trades.
  • Iran is treated as the main geopolitical shock. The speakers argue that markets initially underestimated the war’s complexity, especially because Donald Trump’s public victory narrative did not clarify the strategic endpoint.
  • The episode turns geopolitics from a tradable event into a macro trend. Ricky describes the current world as old rules breaking before a new order is rebuilt, extending New Order Asset Pricing and Macro Event vs Macro Trend Distinction.
  • [[FrancisFukuyama|Francis Fukuyama]] is cited for the argument that the U.S. strike rationale lacked a clear objective, making domestic political victory and market interpretation harder to separate.
  • For China, January-February data are presented as better than expected: industrial output, consumption, fixed-asset investment excluding a weak property sector, infrastructure/manufacturing investment, and exports all looked more resilient than market mood.
  • The source extends China Macro Temperature Gaps / 中国宏观温差 by saying macro industry strength and personal income/employment experience can remain sharply split; some groups bear the cost of industrial upgrading and national-strength narratives.
  • The “15th Five-Year Plan” discussion adds Strategic Industrial Policy relevance: technology self-reliance, national-security barriers, space computing, commercial space, and controlled fusion are read as resource-favored investment and startup directions.
  • AI Application Layer Moat and AI Equity Valuation Risk are both reinforced. Ricky thinks 2026 may be an AI application takeoff year, while [[DavidWeng|大卫翁]] worries that labor-market damage, regulation, AI-company financing, and AI Data-Center Private Credit Financing can make the AI story socially and financially unstable.
  • Private Credit Tail Risk / 私募信贷尾部风险 is extended by the observation that institutions such as BlackRock, KKR, and [[ApolloGlobalManagement|Apollo]] tend to judge their own exposure as safer than the market average, a familiar pre-crisis risk-comfort pattern.
  • Gold As Currency Spare Tire / 黄金备胎 is reaffirmed but constrained. Ricky distinguishes physical gold from investable gold and frames gold as a diversifier, while [[DavidWeng|大卫翁]] keeps a 5%-10% total-asset range rather than a full-conviction trade.
  • Lindy Effect Asset Allocation / 林迪效应资产配置 is introduced as an ultra-long-horizon filter: assets and institutions that have survived more historical randomness, such as gold or core land, may deserve different confidence than recently invented assets.
  • Oil is treated as unusually hard to forecast because basic supply-demand surplus can be overwhelmed by Strait of Hormuz disruption; the episode treats trend-following signals as more useful than confident discretionary calls during that stress.
  • The second-quarter allocation frame shifts from China recovery plus fiscal implementation toward inflation, stagflation, recession risk, and whether the Federal Reserve can or will cut rates under political pressure.
  • A shares are judged to have more of a floor because domestic long rates and credit yields leave institutions with few attractive alternatives; Hong Kong faces overseas liquidity/geopolitical pressure but still contains long-term valuation cases.
  • The episode extends China Equity Structural Selection / 中国权益结构分化 through Hong Kong central/state-owned enterprises, market-value management, shareholder-return policy, and core Chinese internet firms with data, talent, and AI potential.
  • Ordinary-investor advice returns to 1:1:1 Allocation Anchor, Portfolio Suitability, and Investment Risk Management: cash is a permanent behavior tool, not a temporary failure to forecast risk, and the right cash ratio is the one that prevents anxiety and forced selling.

Key Quotes

“旧的秩序正在崩坏，新的秩序还没有建立。” - Ricky’s macro-regime framing.

“预测越来越难。” - the episode’s allocation reason for structure over single-point calls.

“黄金是一个分散风险的资产。” - Ricky’s role definition for investable gold.

“现金应该长期存在。” - David’s ordinary-investor cash-discipline point.

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