- 2017: Bitcoin’s rip from $300 to $19,600 in 3 years made it the biggest bubble ever
- 2017: Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sold for $450mn (would take average American 7,500 years to earn)
- 2017: Argentina (8 defaults in 202 years) issued a (oversubscribed) 100-year sovereign bond
- 2017: European high yield bonds were priced as less risky than US Treasuries
- 2017: the market cap of Facebook (25k employees) exceeded that of India (1.3bn people)
- 2018: US, UK, German, Japanese unemployment rates are at multi-decade lows
- 2018: the global stock of negatively-yielding global debt remains >$10tn
- 2018: S&P 500 trailing price-to-earnings ratio >20X…a level exceeded in just 12 of past 120 years
- 2018: S&P 500 price-to-book ratio >3X…a level exceeded in just 5 of past 70 years
- 2018: US tax cuts of $1.5tn will coincide with US corporate bond issuance of $1.5tn and US equity buybacks of $0.9tn
- 2018: QE “winners” (REITs, credit, EM assets) have started to underperform QE “losers” (volatility, US$, commodities, cash)
- Aug 22nd, 2018: S&P500 bull market becomes longest of all-time
- Dec 2018: Fed will be 9 hikes into tightening cycle & G4 central bank liquidity will be contracting
- May 2019: global profits are forecast to be 1/3 higher than their prior 2008 peak (IBES $3.3tn vs $2.4tn)
- July 2019: the US economic expansion will become the longest since the Civil War

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