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...double-dip!

...new home sales are proceeding at the fastest pace since 2007...

The stock market has returned more than 130% since 2007 peak, which is more than 12x the growth in corporate sales and 3.6x more than GDP...

"That’s why the markets can listen to narratives that all is bad/good now and that all will be good/bad in mere months and just keep rallying anyway – because the narrative is being set elsewhere. "

If homeowners still can't find jobs as the labor market recovery falters, then their ability to service future mortgage becomes impossible.

The Central Banks are trapped in promises to do “whatever it takes”, and low interest rates forever (whatever inflation does)...

"Market breadth however does not support the surge to record high territory for U.S. indexes."

The onset of a European banking crisis is close, and it should worry us all...

"We are not sure how and when we will see the end-game, but in our view this is not a sustainable situation in the long term."

"We have had artificial support for the economy since 2008."

The index changes were prompted by something as trivial DJIA constituent Apple's decision to split its stock 4:1.

Real Vision senior editor Ash Bennington hosts managing editor Ed Harrison to make sense of a series of financial news stories -- from the so-called “K-shaped”…

"Ironically, I think the general public “gets it”. But our political leadership seems unwilling to fundamentally rethink the role of monetary policy in our economy."

"Gold hedges our clients against two scenarios: a weaker US dollar and the debasement of all currencies (the dollar declines and so do other currencies)..."

"This year’s increase means banks’ Level 3 assets are almost the same size as the gross domestic product of Finland..."

"...the only thing they can stimulate is the stock market. That’s why the stimulus comes into action when the stock market is going down..."

What could go wrong?

“But with the Executive Order threatening to bring a ban on our U.S. operations ... we simply have no choice.”

"We expect a growth scare to be followed by a rate scare over the next several weeks/months that could finally give us that first tradable correction in the major US equity indices."