![Jim O’Neill: Markets are not pricing in disaster — but maybe that is wise](https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/FN-AK912_fn_vie_M_20200807055848.jpg)
In an April commentary about the wild gyrations in financial markets during the February-March phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, I noted that the behaviour of equity markets had been as bewildering, complex, and fascinating as ever.
Still, I suspected that a weird logic was at work, and argued that markets might continue to rally despite the collapse of the world economy. And so they have. Will that change?