The line has always been only loosely correlated with economic quality as experienced by the masses, and now it has finally become completely untethered. Also,

The line has always been only loosely correlated with economic quality as experienced by the masses, and now it has finally become completely untethered. Also, see reverse factoring, the new financial tool that let's companies pretend to have much better financials then they do and is probably the next big bubble that will entirely collapse when people start digging into it.