Going to tweet out a lot of interesting charts from Goldman Sachs on "a most unusual cycle". First up, as is widely known, this has been an unusually weak economic recovery. 
That isn't actually that unusual in the case of true financial crises. But as the second chart shows, the recovery in financial markets has been stunning.
This is now comfortably the longest US stock market bull run in history, and in terms of strength greater than the dotcom bubble and approaching the roaring 20s.
It's quite stark how financial assets have markedly outperformed "real" ones like house prices, or wages and inflation.
Corporate revenue growth has also been sagging as economic growth has dwindled.
Growth expectations have been sagging globally and in a secular fashion.
Bond yields are also at historical lows - as exemplified by the UK gilt yield since 1700.
One sector stands out as a world-beater: Technology. Tech companies have basically decoupled from the rest of the corporate world.
What has powered the broader stock market recovery is fatter margins and higher valuations - but if you strip out technology then it tracks the post WWII average.
There's been a lot of attention paid to the evaporation of market volatility, but this largely reflects a STUNNING decline in economic volatility.
Corporate leverage is high, but the burden is kept in check by plummeting borrowing costs.
The US deficit is unusually large relative to the state of the economy.
Meanwhile, the fiscal picture is actually improving in Europe, leading to a likely divergence in public debt ratios.
Labour costs as a share of business expenses looks like they are in a secular decline, which is one of the reasons profit margins are so healthy.
Global equities have recovered despite manufacturing being in a funk.
But services largely remains healthy, according to PMI surveys. In Europe the divergence is nearly unprecedented.
Once the yield curve inverts stock market are typically weak.
Stock market valuations are now fairly unremarkable (ish).
But the performance of growth versus value is remarkable, both in duration and strength.
This is a global phenomenon.
Despite the phenomenal tech sector performance, valuations are actually far below what they were in previous sector bubbles, such as 90s tech bubble and the Nifty 50 bubble
The dominance of tech is not as total as other industries have been in previous eras.
General Motors was also a far bigger chunk of the US stock market in its heyday than Apple or other recent giants ever were.
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