![We live in strange times We live in strange times](/sites/economics.smu.edu.sg/files/news/soenews2_83_17.jpg)
In his weekly commentary, SMU Adjunct Faculty Larry Haverkamp identified five things happening in today’s financial market that go beyond strange: negative interest rates, negative deposit rates, interest rate swaps, concurrent boom and recession, and falling commodity prices in the face of looming shortages.