Despite The National Team's efforts on Thursday, the week ended ugly in China...with CHINEXT (China's small cap/tech heavy index) ending red after terrible economic data hit overnight...
Bunch of charts............... YUK,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Maybe the talking heads would like to view this information?????? I doubt it..........
The S&P Banks and Financials indices are both down over 20% from their highs (in bear market)..

For The Big 4 Bulge Bracket Banks, December has been a bloodbath...

And this is probably nothing to worry about - the world's most systemically important banks continue to collapse...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-14/stocks-slammed-trump-trade-talc-trigger-turmoil?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29

Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.