Lot of charts inside link.......
$1.41BN: Central bank asset purchases every hour since COVID-19 March lockdowns
$1.6BN: Nasdaq 100 market cap gain every hour since COVID-19 March lockdowns
34 days: Equity bear market in 2020 shortest ever
$2000: gold best performing asset class in 2020, first year since 2010
50%: annualized return from 30-year US Treasury this year
100 years: corporate bonds hit 100-year highs versus commodities April 20
100 years: US stocks almost at 100-year highs versus US government bonds
59%: US equities as share of MSCI global equity index (ACM) at all-time high
42%: Chinese equities as share of Emerging Markets at all-time high
21%: gain in global stocks (ACWI ex. US) required to match 2007 high
25%: market cap of FAANG as % US stocks, of US stocks, record concentration
$9.3TN: market cap of US tech sector entire > market cap of Europe's stock market
24x: trailing PE ratio of S&P500, surpassed only Dec 21 (25x) & Jun 99 (30x)
1.7%: dividend yield on 5&P500 now same as 5-year breakeven inflation rate
2021: global consensus forecasts for 2021...GDP 5.1%, EP5 29.0%...up big
2021: global consensus forecasts for 2021...CPI 1.3%, bond yield 0.5%...unchanged
$258Tn: size of global debt at record high, 2.3x of global GDP
$212Tn: value of global bonds & equities, an all-time high, 2.3x global GDP
$14tn: value of global negatively yielding bonds
40%: Bank of Japan owns 40% of JGB market; Fed owns 14% of Treasury market
http://www.zerohedge.com/markets/central-banks-are-buying-14-billion-assets-every-hour-20-stunning-facts-about-market?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.
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