From David Stockman, at davidstockmanscontracorner.com:
Never has there been a more artificial—-indeed, phony—–gain in the stock market than the 215% eruption orchestrated by the Fed since the post-crisis bottom six years ago today. And the operative word is “orchestrated” because there is nothing fundamental, sustainable, logical or warranted about today’s S&P 500 index at 2080.
In fact, the fundamental financial and economic rot which gave rise to the 672 index bottom on March 9, 2009 has not been ameliorated at all. The US economy remains mired in even more debt, less real productive investment, fewer breadwinner jobs and vastly more destructive financialization and asset price speculation than had been prevalent at the time of the Lehman event in September 2008.
Indeed, embedded in Friday’s allegedly “strong” jobs report is striking proof that the main street economy is the very opposite of bullish. In January 2015 there were still 2 million fewer full-time, full-pay “breadwinner” jobs in the US economy than there were before the crisis in December 2007.
Not surprisingly, therefore, real median household income is still 4% below where it stood prior to the crisis. That cardinal fact nullifies in its entirety all of the Wall Street propaganda about “recovery” based on spurious paint-by-the-numbers data on waiter and bartender jobs or the temporary surge in car sales fueled by unrepayble subprime auto loans.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/six-years-of-bull-market-bull/
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