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.
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, March 1985