Because the Italians can’t decide on what to do with their pathetic lives, the rest of the world suffers. When things get tough around the world and risk is decidedly off, no one suffers more than the Asians.
Men from the orient are accustomed to hard times, having grown up in the rice patties in very hot and horrible conditions. Some of these people sustain themselves off plastic rice — because the real stuff is too expensive. For protein, they make meals out of maggots and scorpions, devouring anything with moving legs.
In recent years, a great bull market has coerced many of these half naked savages out from the bush and into the big cities — to become stockbrokers or perhaps lawyers. The entire ecosystem is predicated on the world remaining solvent, western markets buying their wares, and people fat enough to avoid wanting to cut off the heads of their leaders.
This Italian business threatens all of that and if I was the leader of China, I’d tell Italy in no uncertain terms that I would send armies to attack them, should they dare mess up the status quo. Since Italians are stubborn and think very passionately with their guns, I doubt this conversation would end well. Whilst we believe the Italian business will rectify itself and the people of Italy will be told the STFU and continue sucking on Merkel’s great big German dick, there is an off chance it might not happen that way.
As such, Asian markets are sharply low, vagabond style. The Shanghai is off by 1.6%, Hang Seng -0.8%, and the NIKKEI -1.3%.
The only other notable occurrence is cryptos — they’re rallying hard and no one gives a shit.
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