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The worst thing you can do to a kid with a fertile imagination is making him/her watch horror movies. In this regard, the 80s were prolific in making me s*** my pants in sheer bloody terror. Not that my parents forced me to watch the silver screen dripping blood, I just couldn’t resist their strong gravitational pull. A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Funhouse, Hellraiser, Poltergeist, The Exorcist (from ’73, right, but still one of the most terrifying movies ever made), you name it.

“Come here son, you’re gonna love this movie”.
“No, I won’t.”
“C’mon, it’s alright. This is just a movie”.
“No, it is not”.

And then, there’s IT, based on the Stephen King 1986 horror novel, re-released in 2017 with that Swedish actor who’s even creepier than Tim Curry playing the child-killing clown Pennywise. One of the worst things in the plot is not the demon-like creature itself, but the fact that only the children can see it.

Every time I look at the VIX hitting all-time lows, the market hitting all-time highs and people rushing headlong into “no-vol, no-risk” assets with easy money flooding the markets, I can’t help but feel like one of those children witnessing Pennywise in terrifying manifestations. Is it just me or is there anybody out there seeing the same thing who, perhaps, wants to join me in the new Losers Club?

Maybe the worst thing you can do to an adult that grew up watching horror movies in the 80s is to show the VIX chart at all-time lows and telling him/her “C’mon, it’s alright. This is just a movie.”

No, it is not.

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

Stephen King —

Chart of the Day

How much debt corporations have accumulated in past decades?

“The chart above from the US Fed provides a perspective on how much debt corporations have accumulated in past decades. It took the corporate bond market more than 50 years to grow to 3 trillion in size. Then in the short span of about seven years in the wake of the financial crisis, the corporations collectively piled on almost another 3 trillion.”

Source: The Next Turn

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