HowardWhat Do You Want to Hear?
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When I type out blog entries 5 or 6 days a week on a business or political-economic blog, I often wonder, what do people want to read about?
Do you want to find out about the newest hottest stocks, or the latest IPO (Initial Public Offering), so you can have a good investment, and make some bucks?
Do you want to find out what is the political leadership that will get us out of a crisis of a series of collapsing financial bubbles? From the Internet bubble to the real estate bubble to the commodities/energy bubble to nuclear war oblivion?
I have tried to address all these questions. I know there are some solutions to these problems, except for the get rich quick schemes, which are crap. Jeffrey Skilling and the late Kenneth Lay of Enron should go to jail, and teach prison inmates the fine art of business management. They suck!
However, most of the answers to these other problems are of a complex and historical nature. There are quick ways to take a bootlegger's turn and fix the economy and the political-economic mess, but powerful interests don't want to do these things. Like the "Merchant of Venice" in Shakespeare, they would like to insult and deprecate others, and get theirs no matter what. Not only Shylock wanted his pound of flesh. All of Venice thought the same way too. Even Portia was a B...!
We can get leadership in the United States. We can lead the Anglo-feely nations (anglophile I mean) like Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada out of this imperial fantasy, but it certain will be difficult. However, we owe it to our grandchildren, and our ancestors before us to try.
With the collapse of Amaranth Hedge Fund, and the looting of San Diego Calif. municipal employees pensions, and those of hundreds of thousands of others, the fraud of the "recovery" after the collapses of 1998 is fully exposed. (1998- had the collapse of LTCM hedge fund, and the Russian bond market). The Emperor truly has no clothes. Forget about get rich quick schemes. That's what Amaranth bet on when they bet billions that the price of natural gas would continue to go up. If we don't re-regulate the speculative system, and go back to the idea of the "General Welfare" and helping others, we are heading to a dark age. The "Advantage of the Other" needs to be our credo in financial relations and even international relations.
So any questions or feedback would be appreciated, and dealt with in a calm, measured manner with a courteous response.
