The markets are waiting for some catalyst, some reason for their next move.
Until then they just churn back and forth.
"To commit ourselves to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value. We deny personal responsibility. War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." Jimmy Carter
The Banks must be restrained, and the financial system reformed, with balance restored to the economy, before there can be any sustainable recovery.
"In the Incarnation the whole human race recovers the dignity of the image of God. Thereafter, any attack even on the least of men is an attack on Christ, who took on the form of man, and in his own Person restored the image of God in all. Through our relationship with the Incarnation, we recover our true humanity, and at the same time are delivered from that perverse individualism which is the consequence of sin, and recover our solidarity with all mankind." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Sometimes God must first break a heart to enter it. And what remains afterwards, when the crisis is passed, offers us the way to become fully human. And we are called to stand and witness to the fully human life, in grace that is given not cheaply by ourselves, but by our resolve to follow Him in our calling. Where there is sickness bring healing, where there is despair bring hope. A candle in the darkness allows others to find and ignite their own— and then there is light." Jesse 2016
"A credibility trap is when the managerial functions of a society have been sufficiently compromised by corruption so that the leadership and the professional class cannot reform, or even honestly admit and address, the problems of the corrupted system without implicating a broad swath of a powerful elite, including themselves.