With central banks owning $25 trillion of financial assets and sovereign wealth funds owning countless trillions more, it is time to ask whether capitalism as we know it is a thing of the past.
These non-economic actors have different motivations than traditional investors who buy assets in order to earn a profit over a reasonable period of time.
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