"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel
16 May 2016
SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - Purposeful Mispricing of Risk
The charts seem fairly clear.
The mispricing of risk continues.
The rationales for this are increasingly thin and self-serving.