For centuries, alchemists searched for a way to turn lead into gold. Their ambition was to take one material, apply the right process and emerge with something fundamentally different.
Modern finance has achieved transformations those alchemists wouldn’t have dared to imagine. But there are still limits to the magic. An illiquid asset cannot be turned into a liquid one simply by changing the structure around it.
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