Sadness

These are some of the things that happened over the weekend:

Catalonia and Spain are at loggerheads after Catalonian independence referendum descends into chaos.

President Trump squabbles with the mayor of San Juan over the progress on hurricane relief.

President Trump continued to ratchet up the verbal pressure on North Korea.

There were terrorist attacks in Canada and France.

50 killed and over 200 injured when a gunman opens up with what seems to have been automatic weapons at a Jason Aldean concert on the Las Vegas strip.

In spite of all that stock futures are higher.  I just don't know what to say except sadness.  Sadness for not only what has happened, but what I think is coming.  We are going to have to become a much more security conscience world.  I think you're going to be screened and go through metal detectors or some such thing much more in the coming years.  I also think you're going to have to surrender much more information about yourself than we've ever had to in the past.  In the process I fear certain liberties and freedoms of movement that many of us take for granted will be curtailed.   It may be necessary, but it is sad.  

We'll get back to talking about the markets tomorrow.  Today we'll pray for all these innocent victims around the world.