The IBEX conspiracy: the theory that never dies
The IBEX's decline has revived conspiracy claims of hidden banking, media and political control. An analysis of a narrative that refuses to go away.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
The conspiracy myth that revives every time the IBEX dips
The IBEX doesn't fall: it is pushed. That is the conclusion of a school of analysis that resurfaces whenever the Spanish stock market index loses ground, attributing the move to a hidden hand rather than to interest rate policy or corporate earnings. This time, the argument has revived the monarchy's supposed privilege of issuing currency and linked it to an old story about a faceless elite controlling the banking system and the media.
On the opposite side, the response is not counter-analysis but mockery. The outlandishness of the claims — a group that supposedly rules the planet without ever setting foot on its territory — invites sarcasm, and that scepticism acts as a containment mechanism, though it does not stop the narrative from circulating again and again.
As long as the real economy remains opaque to part of the population, conspiracy explanations will find an audience. The IBEX, for its part, will keep rising and falling for far more prosaic reasons: inflation, monetary policy and corporate earnings. The prophecy about Spain's final hours has gone unfulfilled for years. But the story, like the index, has its rebounds too.
The IBEX doesn't fall: it is pushed. That is the conclusion of a school of analysis that resurfaces whenever the Spanish stock market index loses ground, attributing the move to a hidden hand rather than to interest rate policy or corporate earnings. This time, the argument has revived the monarchy's supposed privilege of issuing currency and linked it to an old story about a faceless elite controlling the banking system and the media.
On the opposite side, the response is not counter-analysis but mockery. The outlandishness of the claims — a group that supposedly rules the planet without ever setting foot on its territory — invites sarcasm, and that scepticism acts as a containment mechanism, though it does not stop the narrative from circulating again and again.
As long as the real economy remains opaque to part of the population, conspiracy explanations will find an audience. The IBEX, for its part, will keep rising and falling for far more prosaic reasons: inflation, monetary policy and corporate earnings. The prophecy about Spain's final hours has gone unfulfilled for years. But the story, like the index, has its rebounds too.
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