If folks are scared, regardless of the reality of the situation,

their buying and investing habits change. Certain products viewed as non-essential are shunned, money is held tighter and/or moved into 'safer' investement vehicles, etc...

Colo's original post indicates that that seems not to have happened yet. But all it takes is a quick kick to the gnads to change the way consumers feel about short and long term prospects. I am no economic major or anything, but we have all experienced abrupt changes in sentiment that have caused issues - think toilet paper shortage....hoarding, etc....housing market...

In response to this post by SteveInBaltimore

Posted: 02/25/2022 at 07:40AM

Welp, clearly the "market" thinks nothingburger and FED sits out for awhile -- ColoVT82 02/24/2022 7:17PM

All I know is this -- VT Pops 02/24/2022 9:14PM

On the other hand, the number of Ukrainian brides may be up... ** -- UTPr0sim 02/24/2022 9:27PM

Do you work on Wall Street? ** -- Brown Water 02/24/2022 8:24PM

Good one. ** -- Stork 02/25/2022 04:18AM

…this is your wake up call -- chumley 02/24/2022 8:42PM

Hope you are too, but don't know how you could be! ** -- HOKIERIT 02/24/2022 7:48PM

I pray "escalate to de-escalate" doctrine is a mis reading... ** -- ColoVT82 02/24/2022 7:51PM

...can you expand on that (FED sits and 'rong) alike, please? TIA. ** -- bourbonstreet 02/24/2022 7:42PM

FED sees the turmoil as an excuse to not begin rate increases. -- ColoVT82 02/24/2022 7:49PM

+i-rates is to sop up all the stimuli flooding which is +inflation? -- bourbonstreet 02/24/2022 8:13PM

FED raises to cool down inflation. Yet, they are painted into a corner -- ColoVT82 02/24/2022 8:29PM

"buying close to half of the paper ourselves..." buying back our own debt -- bourbonstreet 02/24/2022 8:40PM

Yes. 50% is where the "open market" is -- ColoVT82 02/24/2022 9:16PM

...this is a long (maybe fugly) way from global, over? Not umpossible. ** -- bourbonstreet 02/24/2022 8:09PM

Potassium Nitrate works...and Poland is the leading producer -- HokieNerd 02/24/2022 8:08PM

Yea. Im thinking the huge hole in available WW stock ** -- ColoVT82 02/24/2022 8:32PM

...their socks and ruble this morning was truly, awful... -- bourbonstreet 02/24/2022 8:12PM

I think there was a fair amount of short covering today to turn things -- 501 02/24/2022 7:37PM

Yea. No doubt. Watch the EURO getting shorted if sanctions expand to ener ** -- ColoVT82 02/24/2022 7:50PM

This ain't over by a longshot in terms of macroeconomics -- HokieNerd 02/24/2022 8:26PM

Can you elaborate on that a bit? -- SteveInBaltimore 02/24/2022 9:00PM

If folks are scared, regardless of the reality of the situation, -- HokieNerd 02/25/2022 07:40AM

If folks are scared, regardless of the reality of the situation,

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