Aus diesem Kreditkartenhaus soll (angeblich) ein selbsttragender Aufschwung erwachsen - egal ob sich Löhne und Produktivität erhöhen oder nicht.
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Ho-hum, another day, another record high in the S&P 500 (SPX). What is this market telling us? If you're long, the market is screaming "you're a genius!":
But other than that, what else is the market telling us? Is it telling us anything about the real-world economy and the open market for equities based in that real-world economy?
Before we can answer "what is the market telling us?" we must first ask, "what can the market tell us?" That is, what is the current market capable of communicating?
This is the key question, for as we all know central banks have intervened in the market in an unprecedented fashion for over eight years. Central banks have transformed stock markets into signaling devices that are intended to boost the perception of increasing wealth, whether earnings and productivity are actually increasing or not.
The idea is to generate a "wealth effect" that encourages people to borrow and spend more as they feel their wealth is increasing. This "wealth effect" borrowing and spending will (so goes the assumption) overcome the stagnation of wages and spending, and spark a gloriously self-reinforcing consumer credit-spending binge. (A.L.: also das altbewährte Kredit-Schneeballsystem, das Greenspan schon 2002 vorschwebte.)
This is considerably different from an open market of decentralized buyers and sellers, which reflects statistical data and sentiment regarding the real-world economy of sales, profits and productivity...
