Bonds versus stocks

Time for a rant.

The stock market moves higher, yet bond yields come down.

Thus, the common thought is that the bond market is not discounting the recovery in the economy that the stock market sees in it's ebullience.

So supposedly, one or the other is wrong.

And since people want the market down, the thesis you'll hear, is that stocks are the ones that will follow bonds direction.

But they'll dress up this thesis with a ton of charts and gobblegook to "prove" their points.

Yesterday, I said that most stock guys can't take any pain, and most folks want you to get out in the first quarter, I'll give you all you need to know about the above thesis in 25 words:

The stock market is reflecting a profitable recovery for corporate America, and the bond market is currently reflecting the unwinding of some wrong way bets.

As Joe Friday said, "Just the facts ma'am" but Wall Street can't handle the simple truth!

And now PIMCO's panda bear, El-Erian is on CNBS, who just last week told us that stocks had hit a wall, and stocks were on a prolonged sugar high. Now he says this sugar high is caused by:

• positive economic numbers, (but he thinks it is just an inventory cycle)
• sideline liquidity (by all those who missed the rally)

Thus he says we need a continual injection of sugar.

Maybe he doesn't realize how big this sugar cube is!

But how about his injection of bearishness that has kept people out of the market, who are on the sidelines, that now need to buy? Why would the market accomadate those people that were afraid to invest?

So now these learned folks, who manage close to a trillion dollars, are reduced to talking about "Sugar highs?" And last week it was "walls?"

Next they'll be talking about "Sugar walls!"

Maybe Mr. Sugar high, needs to watch Sugarcube since he is so afraid of making money! (and keeping with my quarter thesis, the point is made in the first 25 seconds)