But when the central bank overrules all of that and forces rates above or below their natural level, the link between effort and yield is severed.

FORBES: Why Analysts Can't Properly Value Stocks And Bonds

Simply finishing becomes an obsession that overrules everything else.

FORBES: Pain is good

"This is the first time in Egypt's political history that an elected civilian politician overrules the decisions of the heads of the military establishment, " said Omar Ashour, a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Doha Center.

CNN: SHARE THIS

"If, as a lot of people expect, the appeals court overrules this and says this is obviously protected speech, then it may be that this case doesn't really establish a great amount of new law, " he said.

CNN: Virginia deputy fights his firing over a Facebook 'like'

Of course, in order to use this as an argument that inflation is not a problem, he has to assume that the market has enough wisdom in it to properly gauge future inflation, but then he immediately turns around and forgets the wisdom of the markets when he overrules its price setting mechanism with an unprecedented series of operations, from open market to twist.

FORBES: What Gold Sees, and Ben Bernanke Does Not