If you work for the feds -- directly or indirectly -- you get more money. Most likely, you're no longer creating wealth; you're consuming wealth that others created. That’s what being a zombie is all about.
The stock market indices started out the week mixed and were somewhat volatile with a pop at the opening and then a strong rollover plunge to the sessions lows early in the morning, double-bottoming there.
Thin markets seem to be favoring the bulls, and with plenty of accommodative policy from central banks and the view that one can apply a linear weighting system of pluses and minuses to various major factors, there is "on-balance" a positive outlook for equities which should keep markets rising for some time yet.
"Kicking the can down the road" is a universally understood metaphor that has come to mean not dealing with the problem but putting a band-aid on it, knowing we will have to deal with something maybe even worse in the future.
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