Economic Collapse

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Happy new Year: That markets are rigged, at both the macro level, through central banks, and micro, through HFTs, dark pools and purposeful market fragmentation, should be painfully obvious to everyone by now. But when even the regulators engage in "jury rigging", or in this case blocking prominent HFT-critic Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize winning economist (former secretary pf world bank and economic advisor of clinton arra, nobel, a prize which doesn't count for much on these pages but should - at least on paper - impress such statist cronies as the SEC), has been blocked from a government panel that will advise regulators on issues facing U.S. equity markets, it becomes clear as day that the rigging is not just in the markets: worse, it is openly involves the market's "regulator" and "enforcer."

“Financial markets are important and I have been worried about the way they have been working and whether they are serving the American economy,” Stiglitz said. “I was willing to serve. The next thing I knew, I was told you didn’t get it.”

According to Bloomberg, "Stiglitz’s rejection shows the partisan infighting that has bogged down Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White’s plan to set up a panel of experts to advise the agency on topics ranging from rapid-fire stock trading to dark pools."

Actually what it shows is that the SEC is a puppet of the wealthy and powerful HFT lobby, which has made a mockery of markets ever since the passage of Reg NMS, and which has been given free reign to manipulate anything and everything however it wishes: manipulation which, as described here first 6 years ago and most recently, by Michael Lewis, is now obvious to all investors and explains why the general public has decided to fully boycott the capital markets knowing quite well that it, and nobody else, would be the sucker when the Fed pulls the rug from underneath both carbon-based traders and vacuum tubes.

Stiglitz himself understands this, and as he said in a phone interview, "I think they may not have felt comfortable with somebody who was not in one way or another owned by the industry."

Not surprisingly, even the rigging of US capital markets is split according to political lines:
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-05/even-regulators-are-rigged-prominent-hft-critic-stiglitz-blocked-sec-panel