THE ERA OF TRUMP

[Fife]

Grumps, VIX minus 6% lololololol

It's the least volatile time in history, you know, with all this stability!

I haven't looked at VIX in awhile, looking at it now. Fucking Bizzaro World.

[SuburbanFarmer]

There is a 90% chance VIX is red by 10:00 am tomorrow.

Clown world.

Grumps, VIX minus 6% lololololol

It's the least volatile time in history, you know, with all this stability!

[apeman]

Perfect video.

Go look at VIX and USDJPY -- at 9:45 am on -- for every day in the last 80 days. The yen now operates independent of any other currency, which should be impossible, and when it gets hammered in the AM it is mysteriously bullish for stocks.

There is no remaining doubt in my mind that the global central banks are coordinating the VIX slams (aka cheap downside protection, to keep equities up) and playing currency games to ensure adequate liquidity any time there is a whiff of fear.

1.) super duper fake, and
2.) damn these guys are good

[SuburbanFarmer]

Perfect video.

Go look at VIX and USDJPY -- at 9:45 am on -- for every day in the last 80 days. The yen now operates independent of any other currency, which should be impossible, and when it gets hammered in the AM it is mysteriously bullish for stocks.

There is no remaining doubt in my mind that the global central banks are coordinating the VIX slams (aka cheap downside protection, to keep equities up) and playing currency games to ensure adequate liquidity any time there is a whiff of fear.

1.) super duper fake, and
2.) damn these guys are good

It's easy to be good, when you directly control a "market".

[BjornP]

Europe is such a mess because of its dearth of childless, unmarried, elderly politicians.

Dearth?

Compare that little list to:

Albania - Edi Rama - 3 children + 1 stepchild
Austria - Christian Kern - 4 children
Belgium - Charles Michel - 2 children
Croatia - Andrej Plenkovic - 2 children
Cyprus - Nicos Antastasiades - 2 children
Denmark - Anders Løkke Rasmussen - 3 children
Estonia - Jüri Ratas - 3 children
Finland - Juha Sipilä - 5 children
Greece - Alexis Sipras - 2 children
Hungary - Viktor Orbán - 5 children
Latvia - Māris Kučinskis - 2 children
Malta - Joseph Muscat - 2 children
Norway - Erna Solberg - 2 children
Poland - Andrzej Duda - 1 child
Portugal - António Costa - 2 children
Russia - Vladimir Putin - 2 children
Slovakia - Robert Fico - 1 child
Spain - Mariano Rajoy Brey - 2 children
Switzerland - One of the seven joint heads of state of Switzerland has 6 kids, another 3, one 2, and the last has 3.

[apeman]

Perfect video.

Go look at VIX and USDJPY -- at 9:45 am on -- for every day in the last 80 days. The yen now operates independent of any other currency, which should be impossible, and when it gets hammered in the AM it is mysteriously bullish for stocks.

There is no remaining doubt in my mind that the global central banks are coordinating the VIX slams (aka cheap downside protection, to keep equities up) and playing currency games to ensure adequate liquidity any time there is a whiff of fear.

1.) super duper fake, and
2.) damn these guys are good

It's easy to be good, when you directly control a "market".

Oh, I meant good at controlling it.

Objectively, I imagine it isn't easy to pull off such a caper under the radar for so long.

S&P 500 has not moved 1% in ~75 days.

75 DAYS!

[SuburbanFarmer]

Perfect video.

Go look at VIX and USDJPY -- at 9:45 am on -- for every day in the last 80 days. The yen now operates independent of any other currency, which should be impossible, and when it gets hammered in the AM it is mysteriously bullish for stocks.

There is no remaining doubt in my mind that the global central banks are coordinating the VIX slams (aka cheap downside protection, to keep equities up) and playing currency games to ensure adequate liquidity any time there is a whiff of fear.

1.) super duper fake, and
2.) damn these guys are good

It's easy to be good, when you directly control a "market".

Oh, I meant good at controlling it.

Objectively, I imagine it isn't easy to pull off such a caper under the radar for so long.

S&P 500 has not moved 1% in ~75 days.

75 DAYS!

They also control the 'radar'. There's a reason that you don't know who's doing what with the National Money Supply. You get a monotone "fuck off" memo once a month, to hint at a meaningless bank rate, so you feel informed.

Shit is going to burn sooner than later. I'll just drink some wheat beer and laugh when it does.

[apeman]

oh for sure, you know that I agree with you on all this.

Our only difference is that I think -- not a prediction, just a possibility -- that the nonsense can go on for a very long time. In some ways, society depends on it, and folks are very good at not seeing what they don't want to see

[SuburbanFarmer]

oh for sure, you know that I agree with you on all this.

Our only difference is that I think -- not a prediction, just a possibility -- that the nonsense can go on for a very long time. In some ways, society depends on it, and folks are very good at not seeing what they don't want to see

Of course. But it's already gone on for a very long time. Society, the elites, everyone very much depends on it, as they have in the past.

This time is, in fact, different - thanks to the absurdities of 2007/8, and trillions of your dollars being pumped into the elites' pockets. But it's finite. You can only use monopoly money for so long, and now that the pumping has stopped, the game will end. It's a matter of months until the next big Shocking Event, and it will be the final one for a long, long time.

[TheReal_ND]

Who fucking cares?

Why don't you fucks start a Monopoly money thread?