Remember the “Goldilocks” meme?

Well, it might be time for a requiem.

For the past several months, the market has been prone to questioning the viability of the “Goldilocks” combination of synchronous global growth and well-anchored inflation that served to underpin and perpetuate the low vol. regime.

Both pillars are now at risk. The inflation narrative is gathering steam, especially in the U.S., where the combination of fiscal stimulus and late-cycle dynamics have made market participants hyper-sensitive to nascent signs of price pressures. Rising crude prices aren’t helping.

Meanwhile, incoming data continues to suggest the European economy may have peaked in Q1, with Wednesday’s PMI prints being just the latest in a series of disappointments.

Trump’s “America first” policy is contributing to worries about the sustainability of the global recovery. The threat of a trade war – even if it’s been put “on hold” – hangs over the market and there are signs the EM growth story is faltering.

The combination of moving parts in Trump’s agenda has fueled a rally in the dollar and a rise in U.S. yields, which are conspiring to pile pressure on an EM complex that many contend is more vulnerable now than it’s been in quite some time.

The overarching question is whether DM policymakers will have the capacity to combat a downturn in light of the fact that with the exception of the Fed, rates are still glued to the lower bound and central bank balance sheets are still bloated/growing.

At the same time, political risk has resurfaced in Italy, where a populist government threatens to put the country on an even more unsustainable fiscal path.

With all of that in mind, consider the following three charts.

The first is one-month implied volatility on the lira, which has surged to 28%, the highest since the immediate aftermath of the crisis:

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This is the unwind of the carry trade in real-time. “Potential carry trade in Turkey’s currency, based on interest-rate differential adjusted for volatility and dollar-funding costs, [has] plummeted to the lowest since January 2017,” Bloomberg noted early Wednesday morning.

The second visual is European bank credit risk:

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That speaks for itself, but just in case: that’s a one-year wide and it’s indicative of market jitters about spillover from Italy.

Finally, the euro is on pace for its worst month since 2016:

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That’s effectively the market fading the European growth story and questioning the viability of the ECB’s exit strategy.