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Human greed and fear will turn the tide, and nothing else. Woody Allen was absolutely right in the movie, Sleeper, "In six months we'll be stealing Erno's nose; political solutions never work." Nothing could be more true. Political solutions have never worked. Men don't stop having affairs because they see the errors of their ways. They stop because they get caught. The same is true for bank robbers and bullion bankers. Eventually someone will run for the exits. When that happens the game will end. Of course, some dingbat like Harry Markopolos will be there to take credit for it and tell everyone about how brave he is and how what he did was so important to changing mankind's ways. But the truth is that, in the words of Chinua Achebe, "Things fall apart." Cycles of nature continue to pound at things as men struggle and spend to keep them together, but eventually, there is nothing left to spend and the cycle will play though and raze many things that proud man has boastfully built. Bull