Day 1,853: amiss, rancour, rife

But if you look at financial markets, you’d think nothing was amiss. No amount of blood or political rancour, it seems, can distract Wall Street from the good economic news: that fears of recessions have so far proved wrong, and that inflation has nonetheless tumbled. As a result markets are at, or close to, all-time highs in America, the euro zone and Japan, and many emerging-economy stocks are booming, too. Optimism is rife.

Euphoric markets are ignoring growing political risks

Artwork of the day 
View Across Stamford Brook Common
Camille_Pissarro
Date: 1897
Style: Impressionism
Genre: cityscape
Media: oil, canvas

Word of the day 
amiss: wrong, not suitable, or not as expected:
rancour: a feeling of hate and continuing anger about something in the past:
rife: very common or happens a lot:

Quote of the day
“Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.”

― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses