WSJ: Acme Jetpack Market

      You’d think it’s time to stock canned goods and sweep out the bomb shelter.
      Oil is over $70 a barrel, Iran’s got nukes, and soon they’ll price gas per ounce. The Fed has jacked short rates up 15 times. Guys, you’re killing us. The yield curve is as flat as a subsidized Iowa corn field. There’s $1 trillion of teaser rate Adjustable Rate Mortgages about to burst all over Southern California and ’burbs everywhere. Gold is over $600, commodities are roaring, the dollar is dropping again, there are trade deficits as far as the eye can see and GM is on life support. Drunken sailors in D.C. are running a sea of red ink and every time it’s sunny, some antigrowth global warming nutjob wags his finger at your $100-to-fill SUV. It feels like the ’70s all over again, a blaze of malaise. Except . . .