Peak speculation and peak demand for safety now coexist in the same market.
Goldman's Risk Appetite Indicator sits in the 99th percentile of readings since 1991 — a level last seen at the 2000 dot-com peak — even as gold hoarding drives the lumber-gold ratio to historic lows, meaning the identical market is simultaneously maximizing speculative momentum and paying record premiums for capital preservation.
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Goldman's 99th-percentile Risk Appetite reading supplies the speculation half of the coexistence — peak momentum and peak gold-hoarding in the same market at the same time.
The denominator-driven ratio collapse isolates the safety half of the law — record capital-preservation demand coexisting with an unbroken real economy.