The Era of Artificial Markets: No More Organic Corrections?

You mention the Bush years or the Clinton years and in in those times there was a willingness to uh to allow some level of correction to happen in markets like housing, for example. But it seems like today, especially with Trump and his enormous ego, they're not willing to let anything uh go through an organic correction, certainly not in stocks. But the only things they want to keep low are artificially low like gold and silver and oil. And that's all through paper contract selling, which is another, you know, manipulation. But it seems like the stock market is always artificially propped up. And it seems like treasury yields are artificially kept down because the Fed will print money to buy the treasuries to keep the yields down. And so we've entered this era of absolute artificiality. There are no organic signals that are allowed to uh propagate in the marketplace. And there's so much manipulation from the White House about announcing this and markets crash, or announce that and commodities rise and a bunch of insiders are making a lot of money on those announcements, clearly with all kinds of betting and options and polymarkets sometimes. But ...