{"id":26646,"date":"2017-10-10T06:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26646"},"modified":"2017-10-10T06:25:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:25:15","slug":"the-sp-is-a-bloated-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26646","title":{"rendered":"The S&P Is A Bloated Corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nFan Ho In Paris <\/b>1953<\/p>\n

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Update: I never did this before, but now I think I must: change the title of an article. \u201cMinsky and Volatility\u201d isn\u2019t nearly as good as \u201cThe S&P Is A Bloated Corpse\u201d. Simple, really. The URL will be the same as before<\/p>\n

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According to Hyman Minsky, economic stability is not only inevitably followed by instability, it inevitably creates it. Complacent humans being what they are. If he\u2019s right, and would anyone dare doubt it, we\u2019re in for that mushroom cloud on the financial horizon. We know that because market volatility, as measured for instance by the VIX, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)\u2019s volatility index, is scraping the depths of the Mariana trench.<\/p>\n

Two separate articles at Zero Hedge this weekend, one by NorthmanTrader.com and one by LPLResearch.com, address the issue: it is time to be afraid and wake up. And that is not just true for investors or traders, it\u2019s true for \u2018everyone out there\u2019 perhaps even more. Central bank policies, QE and ultra low rates, have distorted the financial system to such an extent -ostensibly in an attempt to save it- that the depressed, compressed volatility these policies have created can only come back to life with a vengeance.<\/p>\n

Feel free to picture zombies and\/or loss of heartbeat as much as you want; it\u2019s all true. Financial markets haven\u2019t been functioning for years, and there have been no investors either, only gamblers and profiteers, as savers and pensioners have been drawn and quartered. Central bankers have eradicated price discovery, nobody knows what anything is really worth anymore, be it stocks, bonds, housing, gold, bitcoin, you name it.<\/p>\n

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The S&P Is A Bloated Corpse\u00a0 Fan Ho In Paris 1953 Update: I never did this before, but now I think I must: change the title of an article. \u201cMinsky and Volatility\u201d isn\u2019t nearly as good as \u201cThe S&P Is A Bloated Corpse\u201d. Simple, really. The URL will be the same as before According to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16395,16396,16397,506,6180,661,13924,5177,2773,1939,903],"class_list":["post-26646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bloated","tag-corpse","tag-frankenstein","tag-markets","tag-minsky","tag-qe","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-volatility","tag-zirp","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26647,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26646\/revisions\/26647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}