“Brace For A Stock Market Accident”, GLG Chief Investment Officer Warns

Wednesday, February 6, 2013
By Paul Martin

by by Jamil Baz
ZeroHedge.com
02/05/2013

Profits and leverage are locked in a deadly embrace. There is a time-honoured tradition in statistics: whipping the data until they confess. Bullish and bearish equity analysts are equally guilty of this practice. It would seem that statistical conclusions are merely an ex-post justification of a long-held prior belief about equity markets being cheap or overpriced. Clearly, consensus, notably among sellside analysts, is bullish. GLG’s CIO Jamil Baz presents the bullish view before discussing the bearish counterpoint – consensus disregards leverage. In the short term, it is clear that central banks need to entertain the illusion of viable stock market valuations by pulling rabbits from a hat. But as high-powered money reaches ever higher levels, the probability of accidents looms large.

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