This will be a brief posting today, since I have to remove a large tree limb that came down on my wife’s art studio during Monday’s storm.

As I wrote yesterday, the markets are immune to a sell off despite global events. Monday’s development in the Middle East.

Humans are said to have developed in the Euphrates Valley, well this week we could see the ramping up of our demise in the same region as US-Russian warplanes may be having dog fights over the Crescent of Civilization.

Given this difficult situation where the Pentagon came out and said that US fighters will defend the airspace against all hostile actors, equity markets hit new highs, the VIX, or fear index, almost had a 9-handle and bonds are at very low yields. It’s too strange to be true.

Look no further than the price of crude. At $44 a barrel there is no premium being paid for the unrest in the Gulf Oil states as well as Middle East.

I’ll have more on this as I dig further, but there’s a limb that needs to be removed from the roof.