We are still in the “Not-euphoria” stage, right? pic.twitter.com/THRBUGdmfp
— GreekFire23 (@GreekFire23) December 19, 2019
Uber bullish consensus never ends well.
Implied vol for junk bonds at its lowest level ever.
All previous dips preceded major selloffs in corporate bonds.
Key point:
High yield spreads are at their lowest level since June of 2007 with record corporate leverage today. pic.twitter.com/eKg8ATSs6R
— Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) December 17, 2019
Rate of $1.3T per year. Sure. But the FED is not panicking t.co/XMOOLqGuL0
— Lawrence Lepard (@LawrenceLepard) December 19, 2019
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Wall Street Magic Tricks Make Banks Look Safer Than They Are: Bloomberg
Despite a decade of post-crisis reforms, financial companies still use tricks to obscure their true condition.
Investors hedge against black swan even as main fear gauge falls
Has the Fed been forced into the type of asset price inflation that actually will be the cause of the next recession? And may that recession be unavoidable despite everybody now ringing the all clear on recession risk? Perhaps the ultimate contrarian question to ask, but I assure you it’s not just a theorem, it’s actually based on historical precedence and that precedence was the year 1999.
2019 was obviously about avoiding the global recession and central banks went berserk trying to prevent it with the renewed liquidity injections. System failure. In the real word system failure has consequences and ironically it may well be the central banks who have planted the seeds of destruction.
Remember the Fed’s initial plan in reacting to market pressure was to cut rates and stop QT, but then they were forced into repo and balance sheet expansion.
As a result markets blew higher and perhaps too high. Far above the earnings picture and underlying fundamentals. And by blowing asset prices too high they are setting the stage for the reversion and it is the reversion that brings about the recession. The Fed knows the economy and asset prices are very much intertwined these days, hence all the intervention programs.