Big picture charts offer some helpful perspective on where we are at after the wild jolts of taxpayer-funded capital injections the past few years. Canada–hardware store to a world where 82% of manufacturing data is now contracting–continues to look weak and vulnerable. We can also look forward to a more normal cyclical recovery in stocks (note the slower, steady price action from the bottom in 2002-03 until the credit mess blew in 2006) one day once central banks stop flooding and let slow demand find its own organic level.
Source: Cory Venable, CMT, Venable Park Investment Counsel Inc.
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This is really pretty incredible.
US household holdings of equities and mutual funds reached a record 278% of disposable personal income in the second quarter of 2026, up from just 29% in 1982, amplifying the stock market’s influence on consumer spending and economic activity.
