Indeed, this area proved to contain stocks for the next month (through much of May).  And along that timeline, the temperature on the health crisis continued to cool — no spike in cases, and importantly, a continued decline in deaths.

So, when we came out of Memorial Day weekend, it just seemed like the pieces were in place for a defining “rip the band-aid off” moment for the economic crisis.

That’s what we got.  That Tuesday after Memorial Day was the day that stocks broke out.

With that, we are now just beginning to see what asset prices look like when a functioning economy meets an unprecedented sea of global liquidity.  I suspect it’s going to surprise a lot of people.

Just how big is the sea (of liquidity)?  Remember, not only has the Fed and other global central banks flooded the world with trillions and trillions of new money, but the Fed removed the reserve requirement ratio for banks.  It’s now ZERO.  At a zero reserve requirement ratio, the stock of money could increase infinitely.

Translation:  The value of money is being destroyed, which means the price of assets go up!  

As I said yesterday, cash is the worst place to be.  It’s time to be long asset prices.