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The bond market is talking, but no one is listening.

As I explain in my bestselling book The Everything Bubble: the Endgame For Central Bank Policy, the yield on the 10-Year US Treasury bond is the single most important interest rate in the financial system.

This is the “risk free” rate of return… the rate against which ALL risk is measured (stocks, commodities, corporate bonds, mortgages, etc).

With that in mind, take a look at the following chart.

Authored by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com,

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Contradictory Signals

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Following strong starts/permits data but weak mortgage apps (biggest drop in 3 mo), existing home sales broke the tie with a yuuge beat, surging 5.6% MoM (against expectations of a 0.9% jump)...

...to the strongest pace of sales since December 2006.

The median existing-home price for all housing types in November was $248,000, up 5.8 percent from November 2016 ($234,400). November’s price increase marks the 69th straight month of year-over-year gains.

Sell the news... again...

Nasdaq is now red on the week again...

VIX crashed to 8.90 as cash markets opened...

30Y yields back at the Nov 1st FOMC level...

Some are suggesting the extremely rapid long-squeeze in Treasuries is triggering Risk-Parity unwinds...

Now that it is abundantly clear that for a stock to explode higher, all that is necessary - and sufficient - is a press release mentioning the company's name and throwing in the word "blockchain" in the same sentence (see Riot Blockchain and LongFin Corp), other public microcaps have decided that if that's all it takes, then by all means they will gladly take investors' money.