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A financial market that drops 1,000 points in less than an hour is not a financial market.
A financial system which offers savers no incentive to save, thus driving them to the so-called financial
markets, is not a financial system. By driving us into the "stock markets", the system ensures our impoverishment.
It is the great sucking sound of the transfer of every form of wealth to the powerful and rich.

Health Care means nothing. It only is going to keep me alive until the next downturn in around 2016.
Even the Secretary of Defense is embarrassed by a government and country which can only think of throwing money at weapons systems, and nothing else. Anything other than defense spending is "welfare" or "nanny country" or another dim-witted slogan.

And things move fast:  just a week ago I was saying that we are losing control of things; on Monday the third of May I was telling people face to face that that's what the next disaster will be... so the Dow freaks on the 6th! Perfect timing. I should start selling tickets.