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Has Hong Kong's economy finally hit the point of no return?

This is how the Fed monetized billions in T-Bills sold just days earlier by the US Treasury.

...only 24 percent said they were able to keep all of the promises they made to themselves for 2019.

...markets are just waking up to the consequences of this action!

So about these "greens shoots" everyone is talking about?... 

The odds of a policy mistake are rising and the safety valve of easy money for the equity market is limited as well. And if history proves to be a reliable guide the equity market peak will occur in Q1 2020. 

"It will be very difficult if not impossible to repeat such impressive gains in 2020 if our non-consensus view on the US falling into a recession proves to be correct and if a trade truce does not last as we anticipate." - Rabobank

If this is what “the good times” look like, how nightmarish are “the bad times” going to be?

It's Tim Cook's world, and we're all just living in it...

What was the price tag for this market "calm"? Just about $414 billion, consisting of $256 billion in repo injections ($211.4 term and $44.3 in overnight) and $157.5 bn in bill purchases.

Talk of normalization was nonsense... Is everything under control or not?

If you're buying stocks here with both hands and feet, these are the 'facts' you're accepting...

... we will look back at late 2019 as the beginning.

"...conditions appear to be deteriorating..."

“History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street...”

...the amount of natural gas now exceeds the capacity to get rid of it.

Lending standards for homebuyers are expected to diminish in 2020...