David Stockman: Here Comes The Yield Shock

“That’s right. The taxpayers and future generations be damned. Apparently, it doesn’t matter how many small businesses, farmers and entrepreneurs get elbowed out of the capital markets by Uncle Sam’s $1 trillion per year borrowing spree: Mitchels & Chuckles intend to keep the Washington Monument open and the Imperial City’s 3.7 million employees paid in full come hell or high water.”

David Stockman: ‘Now Comes The Black Swan With An Orange-Colored Hue’

“America’s economy is faltering not from too little infrastructure spending, but from too much debt—-$67 trillion of total public and private debt, to be exact. So it appears that the bond vigilantes are returning from 24 years of hibernation just in the nick of time to put the kibosh on the Trumpite/GOP’s latest hare-brained scheme to balloon the public debt.”

Robert Shiller Asks: ‘Why Is The U.S. Stock Market So High?’

“This brings us back to the mystery of what’s driving the US stock market higher than all others. It’s not the “Trump effect,” or the effect of the recent cut in the US corporate tax rate. After all, the US has pretty much had the world’s highest CAPE ratio ever since President Barack Obama’s second term began in 2013.”

David Stockman: If Michael Wolff Wants To See Some Real Idiots, He Should Look At The People Buying The S&P at 2743

“Yet there is something about Michael Wolff’s tirade that deeply resonates, albeit on the other end of the Acela Corridor. We are referring, of course, to the ‘idiots’ who are buying the S&P 500 at 2735 and earnestly debating the pros and cons of bitcoin at $16,000.”