This week's Option Skew (Out of the money bets on implosion) is the highest ever...
The second highest ever was exactly 17 years ago: October 13th, 1998:
U.S. Thirty Year Treasury Price
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.