The market is shooting up again this morning. Things must be really looking good.  From today’s Breakfast with Dave:

What’s the stock market pricing in?
Well, the S&P 500 surged 15% in the second quarter and what we did was go back in the history books to see what happens to the economy the very next quarterly typically after such a big bounce and the answer is … just over 3% real GDP growth. So consider that de facto what is being discounted at this time for current quarter growth — it better be a humdinger of an inventory build. Now, for the market to build on such a rapid advance in the current quarter, history again suggests that we would need to see 5½% real GDP growth, which we give near-zero odds of occurring. Hence our call for a sputtering stock market through year-end. Too much growth — and hope — is priced in at this point.

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