Submitted by Tommy Behnke via The Mises Institute,
On Tuesday, it was announced that over seventeen million new vehicles were sold in 2015, the highest it’s ever been in United States history.
While the media claims that this record has been reached because of drastic improvements to the US economy, they are once again failing to account for the central factor: credit expansion.
Some very worrisome charts for investors to consider.
Stocks just took out their neckline.
Unprofitable Wall Street darling, Tesla (TSLA), which requires mountains of new debt at low interest rates to survive, has taken out its trendline.
Europe’s “canary in the coalmine” just kicked it. Spanish bank Santander (SAN) is sitting atop a mountain of garbage debt from a housing bubble that DWARFED the US's. The country might even break into multiple fragments!
One week ago, many were shocked when an in an exclusive interview with China's official mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, an "authoritative insider" offered his interpretation of the details of China’s supply side structural reform.
Just one month ago, Bank of America's equity strategist Savita Subramanian told Barrons to stay the course and to expect a 2,200 year end target on the S&P based on a year end 125 EPS forecast and an implied 17.6x forward multiple. Incidentally her 2015 year end S&P500 forecast was an identical 2,200.
Another algo-induced stop-run has tried and failed to maintain its gains this morning as Morgan Stanley becomes the latest (after Goldman) to join the "oil in the $20s is possible" bandwagon. Despite hopeful bullishness from Andy Hall who sees production destruction leading (an industry that couldn’t function at $50 certainly can't function with prices below $40) inevityably leading to higher prices, Morgan Stanley warns, "in an oversupplied market, there is no intrinsic value for crude oil.