Markets were sent into yet another frenzy of activity today as hundreds of thousands of Robinhood and TD Ameritrade (UPDATE: WeBull, which many RH users were migrating too, has also halted new positions in these stocks) users woke up to find these brokers were no longer allowing any further trades on GameStop ($GME), as well as other notable 'meme' stocks like AMC ($AMC), BlackBerry ($BB), and Nokia ($NOK) as well as cryptocurrency Dogecoin which also started to take off late last night (UPDATE: WeBull, which many RH users were migrating too, has also halted new positions in these stocks).

We warned last week that, despite The Fed's unlimited largesse, there is trouble brewing in the mortgage markets that has an ugly similarity to what sparked the last crisis in 2007. For a sense of the decoupling, here is the spread between Agency MBS (FNMA) and 10Y TSY yields...