“My point is that manipulating markets strips markets of price discovery of assets and risk and the feedback that enables markets to recover equilibrium; decisions made when risk and price have both been suppressed or hidden by manipulation are necessarily catastrophically mis-informed.” – Charles Hugh Smith
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Tax-Efficient Investing: How the Right Strategy Saves You Hundreds of Thousands
Effective compounding and tax minimization are not competing goals. They reinforce each other. The discipline that drives superior long-term compounding uses aggressive risk management to minimize drawdowns and so also

