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Completely logical that you missed it. Like what appears customary in financial writing, the article has attempted to botch normal writing and has gone completely north on clarity by squeezing massive amounts of important sounding words in sentences which cause a shortfall of meaning. This is exacerbated by a scorching need of readers according to people familiar with the matter.


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I chalk it up to poor writing. The article clearly makes no sense in that context.

i think the article is deliberately written to be confusing

Despite trying and reading it carefully I didn't understand it. I wonder if it is me or the article, or both.

Is it me or are some words missing in the 2nd paragraph? It makes it hard to follow the article.

That paragraph and the one before it are the meat of the article, and they are really confusingly written.

I agree. I find the writing in this article to be unclear and it's making me very confused.

No offense, but it sounds like you are not a native English speaker and had difficulty interpreting the article. It's not very clearly written, but it's not as incomprehensible as you make it out to be.

maybe it's a formatting issue in my browser, but it was less than clear when it was the author talking, versus when he was quoting something. i had to bail. am i not giving the paper a fair shake?

I couldn't read this article. The amount of declarative statements was outrageous.

This. That the author doesn't understand this completely undermines the article.

The article had no structure. I had no idea about the context in general and the wording was so weird, I just couldn't follow it properly.

This is one of the more confusing articles I've ever attempted to read.

Sorry but it’s perfectly acceptable to point out how an article has its prose written in a purposefully confusing and hard to read format.

> We waited an unusually long time to decide on an exchange.

Sentences like these make skimming pretty hard. It made me re-read the entire article because I was confused about the who is the author.


Wow, that article was difficult to understand.

Yeah, I get what they meant, it just felt out of place in the article. It's the first sentence in a section/paragraph, it just felt out of place and left me wondering if I missed something.

The sentence does appear to illustrate that neither the writer nor anyone who edited the story is close enough to the industry to understand some common terminology. It lowers my confidence in the publication’s analysis on related subjects.

I had to click into the article to understand the title of this post. Somehow the sentence structure of the post title didn't seem to make sense to me.

That this very basic lack of clarity in writing was misunderstood is unsurprising.
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