Most dangerous of all, central banks have delivered
unprecedented global liquidity, naturally accompanied by a huge & ongoing compression in market volatility — which inevitably leads to over-confident & over-leveraged investors, who can not help but sow the seeds of their own eventual destruction...
Not exact matches
In addition to near zero interest rates, central banks created excessive amounts of money by issuing trillions of dollars of bonds, e.g. QE1, QE2, QE3, QE4, etc. pushing
unprecedented amounts of newly created money into
global markets to contain the growing deflationary threat; and, while it failed to contain deflation, the excessive
liquidity is now circulating in markets with no place to go, akin to moribund monetary edema.
According to UBS chief investment officer Mike Ryan, «an obvious appetite for art right now, especially in the ultra high net worth space,» has combined with a near -
unprecedented eight - year expansion in
global equity markets (currently the third - longest in history), providing the
liquidity to feed that appetite.