Zirp to Nirp, we are merely trying to play kabuki and make it appear we are better off when in fact the structural problems the PTB's have created only boxed them in and strangled their options. Nothing illustrates this madness more clearly than so-called market makers and pundits praising the fact that the FOMC statement is a cookie cutter of the previous meeting(s) and as such the "good news" is that nothing unexpected came forth! Yes, when the so-called unexpected hits it will be a sledgehammer to everyone's face, there will be little time to digest how and why, chaos shall have everyone by the nose. Continue hard asset hedging, real will survive, all kabuki will evaporate like it was never really there to begin with.