Are investors in denial about how dim the outlook is for American businesses?

That's the question Société Générale's Andrew Lapthorne, global head of quantitative strategy, posed to his bank's clients.

"Asset valuations are extreme; returns are poor, the probability of losses is high and the ability to recover any losses quickly is low," he writes.

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