Ho hum, move along, nothing to see here (really)

I can’t load the image into WordPress for some reason, but check out this picture of how VIX — one measure of U.S. market volatility — is behaving in recent weeks and months.  It’s down, and staying low.

This is one reason why I am not much covering the government shutdown or debt ceiling crisis, though I view both disputes as inefficient, harmful, and tactically unwise to boot.  In fact, that graph should be plastered below most of the blog posts you read on these topics.