and when insiders are selling with both hands, credit is in meltdown mode, commodities are at 1980 levels, global trade is falling off a cliff, inventories-sales decade highs, volatility trending, profits tanking etc. etc...
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.