>I don't think that points to companies colluding with the Fed, that's just companies adjusting to market forces the Fed created (the difference being coordinat

>I don't think that points to companies colluding with the Fed, that's just companies adjusting to market forces the Fed created (the difference being coordination). You are a programmer, right? You understand the concept of indirection? The only way I can imagine this wooshing is if you don't realize that indirection isn't just a technological mechanism. It is, in fact, near omnipresent, and reached for constantly by people in management positions. It's a sociological tool that imbues the wielder not just with great power to get things done while detaching themselves from the suffering created by doing so, but also gives them enough plausible psychological distance that even the masses tend to cut them a check when in reality, a bit of thought on the arrangement of things boils things down to "actor creates signal, signal hanfler handles"