I'm Sort Of Caught Up -- Off The Blog Until Later Today -- April 30, 2018

Chart of the day. Good luck to all. But to leave you with this. From Bloomberg, companies are beating earnings estimates at historic clip.

Whether it’s the U.S. tax cut or just poor forecasting by analysts, members of the S&P 500 Index have been delivering profits above estimates at the best pace on record -- with 80 percent of members topping forecasts so far.

Books: Might really be a good time to re-read:

Best tweet of the day:

Real leadership:

... and that's why Kanye West likes Trump  -- the latter tweets what is on his mind -- while he is alive and robust -- not when he is on his deathbed.

Joy Reid, way too short (not Joy, the clip):