real estate values

As discussed last Friday, several notable surprises in the proposed GOP tax bill involved real estate, and would have an explicit - and adverse - impact on not only proprietors' tax bills, but also on future real estate values if the republican tax bill is passed. And, as the following analysis by Barclays suggests, they may have a secondary purpose: to slam real estate values in counties that by and large voted for Hillary Clinton.

In today's FOMC Minutes, Fed member issued yet another explicit warning to America's investing public (before they pull the pin on the balance sheet normalization) about asset valuations beiung "vulnerable" and also piling on once again that commercial real estate values were "elevated."

Of course, traders don't care and have bid stocks to the highs of the day.

The Fed's explicit warning that "vulnerabilities have increased for asset valuation pressures."