Bitstamp ($USD):
Speaking of risk appetite, this shows the internet / S&P ratio, strongly hinting that there is no easy way out of this all time high...
"We bought for the fake-believe tax cut, but stayed for the impeachment"
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.