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Step aside "50 cent", there is a new mystery vol trader on the block, one who is certain that a vol quake is about to strike US Treasurys.

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

Did The Fed just step in to replace the Trump premium as Junior's email dashes hopes of tax breaks further? Timing is certainly interesting...

Some time ago, Deutsche Bank's chief international economist, Torsten Slok, presented several charts which showed that "Canada is in serious trouble" mostly as a result of its overreliance on its frothy, bubbly housing sector, but also due to the fact that unlike the US, the average household had failed to reduce its debt load in time.

Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com,

It will be ignored until it’s too late.

Everyone who’s watching the stock market has their own reasons for their endless optimism, their doom-and-gloom visions, their bouts of anxiety that come with trying to sit on the fence until the very last moment, or their blasé attitude that nothing can go wrong because the Fed has their back. But there are some factors that are like a tsunami siren that should send inhabitants scrambling to higher ground.