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"Madoff Chart" Earnings Keep Going Vertical—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Too perfect

Everything is perfect. Earnings are gliding higher in a near-perfect line, margins are exploding, and forecasts scream 20% growth. It’s clean, it’s smooth, it’s almost… too smooth. When the chart starts looking engineered, you have to ask: is this peak perfection?

Earnings driving