Risky Company Debt Is Getting Riskier

via bloomberg: Protections built into loans and bonds are being steadily eroded, but investors keep buying. One night in 1982, a group of bankers from Drexel Burnham Lambert gathered at the Quilted Giraffe, a nouvelle cuisine restaurant in New York frequented by Warren …

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Something is VERY wrong with this picture – VIX is getting hammered while FAANG looks like garbage?

Something is VERY wrong with this picture pic.twitter.com/m4QLPF7kFV — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) February 15, 2019 https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1096453542079094785 pic.twitter.com/BLTTMTwLBW — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) February 15, 2019 $SPX is pricing in a nearly 80% growth rate in earnings just for the next quarter – BUT …

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Global earnings growth rates are getting revised down at the fastest clip since 2009…. China set to report slowest economic growth for 28 years

https://twitter.com/Paul_Courtney/status/1086997594688184320 maybe this is not a "glitch" pic.twitter.com/3TzZuMT8NC — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 19, 2019 Planet Earth to Policymakers: Please Reflate pic.twitter.com/0XRdyIZCI0 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 20, 2019 China set to report slowest economic growth for 28 years https://t.co/65emP40s6W — Sunchartist …

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Literally getting away with murder

via thefreethoughtproject: Phoenix, AZ —  In March of 2016, Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford was charged with second-degree murder for gunning down Daniel Shaver, an innocent husband, and father of two. The shooting was captured on body cam footage, part of …

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