Stocks And Precious Metals Charts - The Men Who Sold The World

Monetary and regulatory policy encourage asset bubbles to proliferate. Hot money seeks out the conscious mispricing of risk.

Capital, in the form of both money and personal talent, increasingly flows into malinvestment and the gaming of markets.

The productive economy languishes, left wanting for the lack of creative resources and attention.

The bubble rises to unsustainable valuations— and fails, and a nation's capital is consumed.

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