Cartoon of the Day: Consensus - consensus cartoon 07.29.2015

Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough in today's Early Look:

For those of you who have been following us since we called the US economic cycle top in late 2007, you know that there’s frequently an opposite faction to our most important Global Macro Themes – it’s called Wall Street consensus.

Not that we keep score or anything, but if you go back to what we thought were 3 of the most important (already in motion) Global Macro Risks 1-year ago today, they were: #Inflation Slowing, Rates Falling, and Cross Asset-Class Volatility bottoming.

All of those calls were based on forward looking indicators born out of a repeatable research and risk management #process. Today, the biggest disconnect between our indicators and consensus is #GrowthSlowing in the 2nd half of 2015 (in both the US and Europe)...