It certainly looked like a breakout, at least for today, but it would have been more convincing if the volumes had not remained thin. As such it looked like a short squeeze engineered by the wiseguys ahead of the FOMC meeting.
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“Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.”
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny