Kill The Messenger?
We have the August Surprise after -513 Dow points down on Thursday 4 August 2011, despite the best efforts of all the king’s men (and women) to put the Humpty Dumpty economy back together again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty

As this was written over the weekend, the Saudi Market on Saturday 6 August 2011 fell -5.46% and the [...]

Friends, this market’s probably going to go lower.

Meanwhile Pfizer is targeting a 33 double as a defensive holding.

http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/gallery.html?s=pfe
Pfizer is the world’s largest medicine research and sales company, dating from 1849.

http://www.pfizer.com/home/
PFE is currently buying back their shares to accelerate performance.

http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/perf.html?pfe

PFE has a free $50 minimum to $10,000 monthly automatic investment plan to accumulate and compound [...]

Yet Another Government Charade Sham Act?
Ever since we saw Toto pull back the curtain hiding the Great Wizard of Oz, we were inclined to be somewhat sceptical about government media headline claims like The Patriot Act that violated the Constitution and the ever-increasing warfare welfare expenditures that bankrupted the USA.

The devil is in the details, [...]

Looming Treasury Default or Theater of the Absurd?
We suffer a Deathly Hallows Dark Side Alien Transformer economy, and this is no time to hide our heads in the sand with demagoguery. It is the time to face uncomfortable facts.
DAVID GREGORY, moderator of MTP (Meet The Press), on Sunday 17 July 2011:
–Robert Reich writes this [...]

Ere we all be done in.
Notwithstanding the sheer chutzpah of a man who did not pay his contracted and reimbursed IMF taxes, and blamed it on Turbotax, who sought approval as Treasury Secretary and got it from a stupefied Senate, to oversee the Internal Revenue Service.
Here is a man who made it pretty clear [...]

Do Impeachment and a Market Debacle Loom Large?
Forty years, two score, two Jubilee generations ago, began the Watergate Plumbers Gangster Government.
http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/news/article/1418412

On 1 July 1971, the White House Plumbers Memo was written for the President by Egil Krogh and David Young, to stop the disinfectant leaks from the Pentagon Papers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_timeline
Subsequent administrations employed secret drivers, fixers, mechanics, [...]

Everyone Out of the Pool?
By Rich Cash
“Men go mad in crowds, and come back to their senses slowly, one by one.”
Scottish Barrister author of ‘Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds’ wrote these words 270 years ago. They still ring true.
http://bivib.com/The-crowdinduced-emotions-make-traders-deviate-from-their-trading-plans-and-lose-money.html
Sigmund Freud wasn’t the first to uncover unconscious realms outside our awareness that can [...]

In Real Cost of Living Terms, How Are We Doing?

“Unlike the high-profile hedge fund and private equity guys, he’s more of a throwback, an old-school, publicity-averse deal maker,” said Peter Newcomb, a longtime editor of the Forbes 400, the annual list of the wealthiest Americans…

What have you done for us lately? was often [...]

Political Economy: This Week on Meet the Press
MR. DAVID GREGORY:  …This Sunday, Is Medicare the new third rail of American politics?  Why the fight over the future of an entitlement for 47 million older Americans has become the key battle for 2012, tipping the balance in a closely watched special House race this week in [...]

Is America just another ruined country, or a failing, flailing empire running amuck?
Does what happens in America stay in America, or affect the rest of the world?

Matthew 24:6-7:
(6) And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end [...]