What Tasmania and northern China tell us about the stock market

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There’s not much point in bringing reason today vis stocks, but let’s give it a go. Readers will know that MB uses the “hammer and dance” paradigm for virus recovery:

Global stocks are rallying on the basis that the “hammer” process is working as the virus curve flattens. The problem is that the market has not yet discounted the “dance”. It will have to at some stage, not least because developed economies have done such a poor job of the hammer, meaning new outbreaks of the virus will be common and virulent. 

For example, this:

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.