Hi luker et.al.

I gave you a recommendation for your post, but I have a huge problem with this snippet:

"But you know what the biggest lie of all is? The one that underlies everything (and requires the manipulation to ridiculous levels of all the above)? The lie that there actually ARE markets, the lie that everything is fine and all has been fixed."

My problem is with those that think there are no markets. The markets are what we've allowed them to become! Most of the people who control the markets, do so with OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.

We've allowed them to have that power and one of my "golden rules" is as follows:

"The easiest thing to do is spend other people's money."

That is why we have corrupt politicians, corrupt bankers etc. but the fault is totally ours because we've allowed it all to happen.

Ask yourself this question:

Why do you still use any bank to take care of "your" money?

Think long and hasrd and you'll understand why we are where we are today.

"We live in interesting times"

Good Luck to all! (I mean that, because we'll all need all we can get, imo)