Classic dissembling in the ancillary markets it appears, to try and make the dollar and equities look better by comparison.
It will work until it does not, then geysers here, and a deluge in financial instruments.
"Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices. Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective."
Timothy Kreider, We Learn Nothing, 2012