Well, it’s Halloween and that means it’s time for a post with some generic, scary charts.

But first, the most disturbing picture of them all:

Yeah. There are so many things wrong with that visual it’s impossible to catalogue them all.

And while we can’t top that for sheer horror, here are some visuals that should at least give you pause if you’re still “long and strong”…

For his part, Barclays Chief U.S. economist Michael Gapen says the following about the extent to which blindly driving up asset prices in pursuit of ever diminishing economic returns may be a bad idea:

BofAML’s Michael Hartnett notes that flows into risk assets are inexorable:

And cash levels are at all-time lows:

Increasingly, it’s on the shoulders of passive:

(Wells)

And the robots will murder you in your sleep:

Valuations matter despite what you might have heard on Twitter:

“No price is too high” when it comes to investing in “the future” – or so the narrative goes:

Tell me again about how there are bargains out there if you just know where to look…

Nothing could go wrong with this (obviously):

And this should be fine:

So fear not, because “the only thing to fear is fear itself.”

Well, that and also the orange man handing out candy from a giant box on his desk…