Unless you know what is actually distorting the market in the first place, counteracting a distortion with another distortion seems like a risky approach to pro

Unless you know what is actually distorting the market in the first place, counteracting a distortion with another distortion seems like a risky approach to problem solving. As the author points out, a good deal of money already goes into this. It seems if something is distorting the market, we aren't very good at targeting it, given the lack of results.