I am a regular watcher of Fox Business online, and CNBC on Sky TV where there are constant updates about financial markets and business related news stories.
One point which seems entirely lost on their 'experts' is the current situation of negligible inflation, and interest rates near zero, is actually an enormous cause for concern.
If we go back to the dark ages of Jimmy Carter's disastrous final year of 1980 the prime rate in America reached 21% for a short time - [a far shorter time, it must be said, than the legend around it implies].
I view the current situation as being the 180 degree opposite of 1980, and both are reasons to panic, or at least be enormously worried.
The reason why is this; most businesses of any meaningful size and purpose have a profit margin of about 8%.
The businessman running the company spends his days dealing with all manner of problems concerning his business - from staff problems, to customer complaints, to suppliers delivering late, to financing, to machinery breaking down, to the repairman saying he can't get there until Tuesday, to his secretary's spelling errors.
What makes it worthwhile for him is the profit he makes - the 8% - and the higher his turnover, the higher the 8%, and the higher the dividend he pays himself.
However if interest rates are at 15% or 16% or 17% (or 21% as in 1980) the businessman is actually wasting his time, enduring all these problems when he need not, because if he simply sold everything up and bought government bonds he would earn twice as much as his profit margin.
In the days of high interest rates it is a wonder anybody was in business at all! haha!
Today we have the opposite problem with inflation negligible and interest rates not much higher.
Today it is not a case of businessmen asking themselves why they bother, but potential sources of capital - potential investors - scratching their heads.
If you didn't trust some idiot at your bank not to piss things away making subprime loans and going bust, and emptied out your bank account each day and simply put your money under the mattress, you have nothing to worry about because inflation isn't a problem.
The reason money under the mattress, or in a safe deposit box, is uncommon is grave concerns about inflation eating away at the value of your banknotes, together with worthwhile returns if you buy government or corporate bonds.
However, if you go back one year - I am sure you vividly recall the Charlie Hebdo shooting - and had a large number of $100 notes tucked away in a safe or shoebox, today, a year later, inflation hasn't diminished its value and in fact the prices of various things such as food and petrol have fallen.
So why take the 'risk' of investing it?
Why hand over your money to someone else by buying bonds, or on deposit at the bank, and risk them going bust, when the return you would receive is so low it's not actually worth the petrol money driving there to fill out the paperwork.
To be in a situation whereby your money in cash is 'safer' than a bank or investment is an enormous cause for concern because sources of finance could start to dry up.