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{{a|g|}}I am no financial wizard, readers, but I’m getting the sense the market just feels a bit toppy. This I detect not by reference to an unusual contango in the front-month Brent Crude contract — any experts reading will know at once I am not even sure what that is — nor because of suspicious softness non-farm payroll data, nor mean-reversion in the residential real estate default rates (ditto, ditto), but because folks just seem to be doing plainly bonkers things.
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[[File:William Blake - The Day of Judgment.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Stand by. Will be with you shortly.]]
}}I am no financial wizard, readers, but I’m getting the sense the market just feels a bit toppy. This I detect not by reference to an unusual contango in the front-month Brent Crude contract — any experts reading will know at once I am not even sure what that is — nor because of suspicious softness non-farm payroll data, nor mean-reversion in the residential real estate default rates (ditto, ditto), but because folks just seem to be doing plainly bonkers things.


There is no time like the present, and here, in early March 2021 I thought I would start compiling signs of the forthcoming [[apocalypse]].  
There is no time like the present, and here, in early March 2021 I thought I would start compiling signs of the forthcoming [[apocalypse]].  
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*Talk of “liberalising” London’s listing rules to allow for [[SPAC]]s
*Talk of “liberalising” London’s listing rules to allow for [[SPAC]]s
*[[Non-fungible token]]s are selling. Even ones of an artwork ''actually called “[[Morons]]”''.
*[[Non-fungible token]]s are selling. Even ones of an artwork ''actually called “[[Morons]]”''.
*[[GameStop]].
*The return from the dead of MoviePass.