I have a dream too.
My dream is that one day the markets will be left alone and we can get back to trading on fundamentals that can be measured like: “Does the company make a good product that is in demand at profitable and sustainable margins” rather than “How much stimulus money can they get their hands on and is their stock a good candidate for the next pump and dump program run by the IBanks using our taxpayer dollars to make the price of both equities and commodities much more expensive than they should be while depressing interest rates so we are also grossly underpaid for our savings.”
We used to look at the Russians and wonder how they could put up with a corrupt Government that falsifies data and puts pressure on the press to spin the news in a positive light while the people suffer and the oligarchs line their pockets, committing blatant crimes with the blatant attitude of people who know that their political connections keep them above the law.
Well, as John Mellencamp once pointed out: AIN’T THAT AMERICA? Or, as Ronald Reagan warned us in 1983:
Leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause… that they repudiate all morality… or ideas that are outside class conceptions. Morality is entirely subordinate to the interests of class war. And everything is moral that is necessary for the annihilation of the old, exploiting social order. The refusal of many influential people to accept this elementary fact… illustrates an historical reluctance to see totalitarian powers for what they are. We saw this phenomenon in the 1930′s. We see it too often today.
It was C.S. Lewis who, in his unforgettable “Screwtape Letters,” wrote: “The greatest evil is not done now in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not even done in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.”
Well, because these “quiet men” do not “raise their voices“; because they sometimes speak in soothing tones of brotherhood and peace;
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