{"id":22662,"date":"2017-02-04T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T18:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22662"},"modified":"2017-02-04T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T18:09:33","slug":"a-murderous-complacency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22662","title":{"rendered":"A Murderous Complacency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Murderous Complacency<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dark omens are circling everywhere in today’s markets<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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murder:<\/strong>\u00a0a flock of crows<\/p>\n

~ Miriam-Webster dictionary<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many view the appearance of crows as an omen of death<\/strong>\u00a0because ravens and crows are scavengers and are generally associated with dead bodies, battlefields, and cemeteries, and they\u2019re thought to circle in large numbers above sites where animals or people are expected to soon die.<\/p>\n

~ “Nature”, PBS.org<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Running PeakProsperity.com requires me to read and process a lot of data on a daily basis. As it’s hard to digest it all in real-time, I keep a running list of charts, tables and articles that catch my attention, to return to when I have the time to give them my full focus.<\/p>\n

Lately, that list has been getting quite long. And it’s largely full of indicators that concern me; signals that the long era of “extend and pretend” in today’s markets may finally be at its terminus.<\/p>\n

Like crows circling overhead, every day brings with it new worrisome statistics that portend an ill change ahead. Indeed, these omens are increasing so quickly now that it’s hard not to feel like Tippi Hedren in Hitchcock’s suspense classic\u00a0The Birds<\/a>:<\/p>\n