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A pendulum swings, then slows, then stops. A marble rolls to the center of a bowl, finding its place. These are stable things. Given time, they return home.
Markets are not like this.
A market is a pin balanced on the tip of another pin. Perfectly still, for a moment. Then the air shifts, a gust of wind, a small tremor on the table—suddenly, it leans, tips, collapses into a new position.
This is unstable equilibrium—where nothing stays still, where every shift can be the start of something bigger.
Why Prices Don’t Hold, Why Markets Don’t Rest
We like to believe in balance. The idea that prices settle where they should. That supply meets demand. That if things move too far in one direction, they will correct themselves.
But real markets don’t work that way.
A stock doesn’t gently return to fair value—it overshoots. A currency doesn’t stay in a neat range—it devalues, it spikes. Oil doesn’t just cost what it costs—it costs what politics, policy, and panic decide.
Equilibrium exists, yes, but it is fragile. Disturb it, and it doesn’t return to the way it was. It moves, reforms, becomes something else.
The Hands That Keep the Pin From Falling
Governments, central banks, policymakers—they stand at the ready, watching the pin wobble, waiting to catch it before it falls too far.
Look at oil prices. Too high, and the economy slows. Too low, and producers panic.
Governments step in—subsidies, reserves, price controls—keeping the pin upright when it should have already toppled.
Look at interest rates. The Federal Reserve moves them up, down, up again, trying to keep borrowing, lending, growth from tipping too far in one direction.
Intervention isn’t an exception. It is the rule.
For Investors, This Is Everything
If equilibrium were stable, investing would be easy. Buy the dip, wait for the bounce. Hold, hedge, repeat.
But equilibrium is unstable—which means:
Small shifts can create big moves.
Policy decisions have second-order effects that ripple far beyond their intention.
Those who see the interventions coming are already positioned before the rest of the market reacts.
Markets don’t self-correct. They react, overreact. Governments adjust, over-adjust. If you are watching—not just prices, not just trends, but the forces holding the system in place—you aren’t surprised when the pin begins to tilt.
You are already positioned for the fall.
The Future: Faster, Harder, More Volatile
Equilibrium shifts used to be slow. Now they come fast. Volatility is increasing. Policy interventions are more frequent, more forceful.
But this is not chaos. It is a pattern. And patterns, once studied, become opportunity.
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