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Cliffhanger indeed...

From Rand Paul's somewhat confusing tweets, the divergence between bond and bullion and the dollar and stocks is clear...

Meet The Crypto Company - up almost 20,000% since inception in September...

To a market cap of over $12.6 billion...

Grant's Interest Rate Observer drew the world's attention to this 'company' yesterday...

Shares in over-the-counter name The Crypto Company, which listed in May and traded around $20 as recently as Dec 1st, have gone on a parabolic run in the last ten days - trading as high as $642.

 

The NFIB Small Business Optimism survey hit this morning and it surged to near record highs...

With Small Businesses having never been so excited to hire people ever...

Construction, manufacturing and professional services registered notable increases in planned hiring. The figures indicate the recent solid pace of job growth will be sustained and help extend the economic expansion.

And, of course, President Trump was over the moon...

Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner,

The entire financial and economic narrative in today's Bubble Finance world is virtually context- and history-free; it's all about the short-term deltas and therefore exceedingly misleading and dangerous.

The Fed claims we’re not in a bubble.

This, like the Fed’s claims inflation is too low, is hogwash.

As I outline in my bestselling book The Everything Bubble: The Endgame For Central Bank Policy, the reality is that the Fed’s entire monetary focus is on papering over declining living standards in the US.