Every day is unprecedented, again.
Analysts announce, with grave conviction, that this year is the worst — or the best — depending on lunch. Markets “look strange today,” just as they did yesterday and will tomorrow. Signals are spotted, patterns declared, and predictions made with the confidence of weather forecasts in a hurricane. Beneath the jargon hums a simple truth: the economy is a mood swing with graphs.
Money, it seems, is the most successful fiction ever traded as fact.