Authored by Kevin Muir via The Macro Tourist blog,
So much for that call. I thought there was no way Yellen would put her fingers in her ears, close her eyes, and shout “nah nah nah - I can’t hear you” to the speculative fervour that has gripped markets. Well, there is no way to couch it. I was wrong.
In her last press conference, Yellen focused on all the positives.
In the most interesting exchange during Janet Yellen's final news conference, CNBC's seemingly flustered Steve Liesman asked Janet Yelen a question which in other times would have led to his loss of FOMC access privileges: "Every day it seems the stock market goes up triple digits on the Dow Jones: is it now, or will it soon become a worry for the central bank that valuations are this high?"
Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
Today's single most dangerous Wall Street meme is that there is no risk of a stock market crash because there is no recession in sight. But that proposition is dead wrong because it's a relic of your grandfather's economy. That is, a reasonably functioning capitalist order in which the stock market priced-out company earnings and the underlying macroeconomic substrate from which they arose.
I believe 2018 will be the year inflation arrives.
The reason, as I’ve noted throughout mid-2017, is that multiple Central Banks, particularly the European Central Bank (ECB), Bank of Japan (BoJ) and Swiss National Bank (SNB) have maintained emergency levels of QE and money printing, despite the fact that globally the economy is performing relatively well.
"How do you know when an asset price rise has turned into a bubble?" That's the rhetorical question Albert Edwards leads his today's Global Strategy Weekly note, and responds that in the non- virtual world, valuation is often a good starting point.