The Fearful Rise of Synchronized Markets

Book excerpt: This Element is an excerpt from The Fearful Rise of Markets: Global Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How To Prevent Them in the Future (9780137072996) by John Authers. Available in print and digital formats. Why markets are more synchronized than ever before-and why that's so terrifying. World markets are synchronized, and far more prone to bubbles and meltdowns than ever. Why? In March 2007 I realized the world's markets held each other in a tight, deadly embrace. One Bloomberg screen showed minute-by-minute action in the S & P 500. Then I called up a minute-by-minute chart of the yen's.