Citi: This Is Why Wall Street Is Hard-Wired to Produce Bubbles

(Blame benchmarks)

Forever bubbly

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Citigroup's magnum opus on market bubbles is a fine read, replete with asset price heat maps and many tulip references.

But it also highlights a truism of markets - that the financial industry, by its very nature, is doomed to forever be blowing bubbles.