Wikimedia CommonsOver the past few days, we've seen stocks plummet and oil prices crash.
But the most interesting moves have been occurring in the global bond markets where government bond yields have been plunging to historic lows.
"2015 starts off with the average of G3 10 year government yields below 1%," wrote Steven Englander, Citi's global head of G10 FX Strategy.
The G3 currency group consists of the US dollar, the euro, and the yen.
On Tuesday, the US 10-year yield got as low as 1.959% and Japan's 10-year yield fell to as low as 0.288%. In the eurozone, the German 10-year yield got as low as 0.443% and the French 10-year yield got as low as 0.720%.
"This is the first time ever that rates are this low, as even during the 1930s rates were well above current levels in both the US and abroad," Englander added. "It is also striking that this is not happening during the panic phase of a crisis, but after the panic is over and we have had significant recoveries in asset prices globally. More a sign that investors think we are going nowhere for a long time."
The global economy is arguable fragile, but it's hard to argue that we're in the middle of any sort of panic.
"This could be secular stagnation but it could also be a policy impasse: fiscal policy/helicopter money may be the solution but policymakers are sticking to the conventional non-conventional tools and these are not expected to work terribly well," speculated Englander.
What ever it is, it's breathtaking.
Citi Research