by Chris Powell
GATA.org
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Zero Hedge today reports the latest findings by Citigroup market analyst Matt King, who has determined that stock markets keep going up because selling in emerging markets has been more than offset by “a surge in net global central bank asset purchases to their highest since 2013.”
Soon, perhaps, central banks will have purchased nearly everything to maintain asset prices and prevent markets from functioning, thereby enveloping the world in “financial repression.” Or, as a high school graduate remarked at GATA’s Washington conference in 2008, “There are no markets anymore, just interventions”: