If earnings are the mother's milk of stock bull markets, then the endless supply of talking heads bloviating on the next leg of the stock market rally being driven by a post Q1 renaissance in earnings growth (ever ready to pull out their hockey-stick forecasts) may want to look away from the following chart...
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Despite 22 years of correlations (and obvious causations), asset-gatherers and commission-takers still think this time is different and channel-stuffing and 'if we build it, they will come' inventory overbuilds will be bought away in a swarm of freshfaced crappy creditworthiness consumers... not this time - as peak debt is now upon us.
