>>And meawhile as calm returns to Washington the markets eagle eye returns to Europe and Spain and Italy.
No doubt in future years we'll wonder why we allowed these sorts of things to happen in markets established and funded by us to encourage real trade, not to enrich gamblers and parasitic types.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
