- inflation all around us now.  Just not BAM in your face inflation, a nice, soft, insidious, creeping, mastitizing of the economy.  Boiling frog syndrome, sort of inflationesque state.

- Markets, all markets, are not what they used to be.  That was then, this is now : markets are manipulated and managed, in-order to wring out every $ from the herd, leaving the weak and infirm behind.  Darwinism at work.