“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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Broken Money, Broken Markets
Today’s new highs are increasingly mechanical, not fundamental — and in a broken market, your 401(k) is the exit liquidity.

