At least the markets behaved as if it were a lazy summer day. Corn was down sharply but corn was pretty much the only major item that moved much. Wheat, beans, crude, stocks and bonds all spent the day trying to wake up. Forex response to everything was nothing if not muted. Or maybe it was nothing AND muted.
The elephants in the room that the markets chose not to deal with today were the impending US debt limit expansion or technical default on one hand and the wide-spread European debt crisis on the other. What the worlds stock markets need is an invasion from Mars, one that we know we can defeat. All the countries will find a way to get paid as a result of a global war against a common enemy, the world's bourses will rally happily, OPEC will decide it is time to control the price of crude, which they will do by selling short one billion barrels which will break the backs of all the hedge funds. They in turn will have to put to work all their now-unemployed bright boys inventing ways to defeat Mars -- even if it is a hostile take-over of the Martian Stock Market(s). And everybody will live happily ever after. Don't they always?
The elephants in the room that the markets chose not to deal with today were the impending US debt limit expansion or technical default on one hand and the wide-spread European debt crisis on the other. What the worlds stock markets need is an invasion from Mars, one that we know we can defeat. All the countries will find a way to get paid as a result of a global war against a common enemy, the world's bourses will rally happily, OPEC will decide it is time to control the price of crude, which they will do by selling short one billion barrels which will break the backs of all the hedge funds. They in turn will have to put to work all their now-unemployed bright boys inventing ways to defeat Mars -- even if it is a hostile take-over of the Martian Stock Market(s). And everybody will live happily ever after. Don't they always?
