It may have been a bit telling that the equity market was not able to rally up after Ben and his Merry Banksters pledged their troth to endless liquidity and inflation even as the dollar went into a swoon.
So much of these machine driven markets are now smoke and illusion that it is difficult to derive much legitimate information from them, however.
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“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception