Crude oil right now reminds us of those apocalyptic movies where an asteroid hurtles toward Earth and everyone watches as it grows bigger and bigger while a countdown to doomsday pops up on every television screen from Siberia to South Florida.

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Maybe it’s just too hard to focus on hard data. Maybe the lazy in the world like to talk a good game and get their panties in a bunch over opinions (in the FOMC minutes) that we’re all familiar with by now.