The ‘FOMO’ in New York

Published in La Razón
(Spain) on 2 November 2022
by Jesús Rivasés (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Patricia Simoni. Edited by Lisa Attanasio.
It is time to either panic or take advantage of opportunities; the real skill is in detecting the most appropriate moment to invest or play the liquidity card..

Ukrainian Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852) authored many books. Among them was Taras Bulba, an adventure novel with a Cossack protagonist, widely read by Spanish teenagers in the 1970s.

In Dead Souls, undoubtedly his best work, he wrote that "panic is more contagious than the plague and is communicated in an instant."

Stock market panics are as feared as they are legendary because they have caused — in exactly what proportion, no one knows — both dreadful ruin and sudden fortune. It is a matter of taking advantage of opportunities and being cool-headed. But undoubtedly and most important of all, it involves having no debts, the knot in the hangman's noose. Panics, moreover, are theoretically twofold, with the fears of either losing everything or missing an opportunity being foregone conclusions.

Currently on Wall Street in the U.S., but also in many markets — the European market, including Spain, is no exception — FOMO prevails: the fear of missing out, so named by Americans with their close-to-unhealthy obsession with acronyms. It is the fear of being left out of the party that will take place when the real recovery arrives. The problem is that the American stock market is still giving off alarm signals. On the other side of the Atlantic in the eurozone, inflation has shot up to 10.7%, almost unheard of since World War II, which for many is prehistory.

Today, Wednesday, the Federal Reserve — the central bank of the U.S. — is very likely to raise interest rates another 75 basis points. Everything indicates that in a few months the price of money will be around 5% there, which means that in the eurozone it will also rise again. It may be painful, but it is the long road to normality, because the price of money in the negative is a contradiction in terms.

On the other hand, it is also a time to either panic or to take advantage of opportunities, because as always everything is possible, with and without "FOMO." The real skill is in detecting the most suitable moment to invest or to play the liquidity card. Now they call panic "FOMO," and as Ukrainian Nicolai Gogol used to say, it is as contagious as it can be.

It is the "FOMO" in New York.


Es un momento para el pánico o para aprovechar las oportunidades y la verdadera habilidad es detectar el momento más adecuado para invertir o jugar la baza de la liquidez

Nicolai Gogol (1809-1852), nacido en Ucrania, autor entre otras cosas de Taras Bulba, una novela de aventuras con protagonista cosaco muy leída por los adolescentes españoles de los años setenta del siglo pasado, escribió en Almas Muertas –sin duda su mejor obra–, que «el pánico es más contagioso que la peste y se comunica en un instante».

Los pánicos bursátiles son tan temidos como legendarios porque han provocado, nadie sabe en qué proporción con exactitud, tanto ruinas pavorosas como fortunas súbitas. Es un asunto de aprovechar las oportunidades y, sobre todo, tener sangre fría y, sin duda lo más importante, no tener deudas, que son la soga en casa del ahorcado. Los pánicos, además, son de doble dirección, el de perderlo todo y el de dejar pasar una oportunidad que, en teoría, parece cantada.

Ahora, en Estados Unidos, en Wall Street, pero también en muchos mercados –y el europeo, incluido el español no es una excepción– impera lo que los americanos, con su obsesión casi enfermiza por los acrónimos, llaman «Fomo» –fear of missing out–, es decir, el temor a quedarse fuera de la fiesta cuando llegue la verdadera recuperación, que llegará. El problema es que la bolsa americana emite todavía señales de alarma y, al otro lado del Atlántico, en la eurozona, la inflación se ha disparado hasta el 10,7%, casi lo nunca visto tras la II Guerra Mundial, que para muchos es prehistoria.

Hoy, miércoles, la Reserva Federal –el banco central de los Estados Unidos– es muy probable que vuelva a subir los tipos de interés otros 75 puntos básicos y todo indica que, en unos meses, el precio del dinero rondará allí el 5%, lo que significa que en la eurozona también volverá a subir. Puede ser doloroso, pero es el largo camino hacia la normalidad, porque el precio del dinero en negativo es un contrasentido. Por otra parte, también es un momento para el pánico o para aprovechar las oportunidades, porque como siempre todo es posible, con y sin «fomo» y la verdadera habilidad es detectar el momento más adecuado para invertir o jugar la baza de la liquidez. Ahora al pánico lo llaman «Fomo», tan contagioso como todos y como decía el ucraniano Nicolai Gogol. Los «Fomo» de Nueva York.
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