Business

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Here's a chart of our fabulous always-higher GDP, adjusted for another bogus metric, official inflation.

The theme this week is The Rot Within.

From the Slope of Hope: One of the hottest, most widely-anticipated IPOs in years took place in March of this year - - Snap, Inc., which is, of course, the owner of the Snap app (although they insistently refer to themselves as "a camera company".) Perhaps another mission statement is in order, however, as they appeared to have now expanded to..........Halloween costumes.

By Robert Shiller, first published in the NYT

Oct. 19, 1987, was one of the worst days in stock market history. Thirty years later, it would be comforting to believe it couldn’t happen again.

Back in mid-July, BofA's chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett predicted that the "most dangerous moment for market will come in 3 or 4 months." Well, we are now "between 3 and 4" months since the forecast fate and the most dangerous moment we have experienced since then, ironically, is today's modest selloff on the 30 year anniversary of Black Monday. So looking back at his forecast, has Hartnett thrown in the towel on calls for a correction, and joined all the other BTFDers?

Via Dana Lyons' Tumblr,

While the S&P 500 his on an impressive string of new highs, a number of them have come on questionable breadth.