"Our future could be one in which continued tumult feeds the looting of the financial system, and we talk more and more about exactly how our oligarchs became bandits and how the economy just can’t seem to get into gear."
Simon Johnson, The Quiet Coup, May 2009
"Financial predators are usually narcissistic and audacious criminals. They regularly have an extreme sense of entitlement coupled with high self-efficacy. Many of them have a charismatic quality and are preternaturally persuasive. Financial Predators are commonly shameless and quite adept serial liars. They perceive themselves having near unlimited guile and resourcefulness to extricate themselves out of any compromising situations."
Russ Alan Prince, Unmasking Financial Predators, Forbes, 6 Nov 2017
"But there is a sort of 'Ok guys, you're mad, but how are you going to stop me' mentality at the top."
Robert Johnson, Audacious Oligarchy, Impact Festival 2012
"The greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King, Stride Towards Freedom, 1958
"Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful."
Charles Ferguson, Predator Nation, 2012
"They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest."
Henry Wallace, American Fascism, April 9,1944
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every form of corruption. On the outside you appear to be righteous, but inside you are full of deceits and lawlessness. You snakes! You brood of vipers."
Matthew 23:27-28,33
"To keep standing you have to do it for love, for love of God. Otherwise it seems too senseless, too frustrating."
Jesse, 22 March 2026
Stocks rallied sharply this morning in a reaction to some outrageous lies told to the American public by Trump. The lies were intended to boost the slumping markets.
The insiders front-running this had a good time, but the credibility of the United States and its financial system is being shredded.
Stocks backed off their highs once it became apparent that this was a cynical hoax.
Gold and silver were hammered again, as the Comex option expiration for the precious metals contracts approaches on this Thursday the 26th.
VIX collapsed initially and then bounced back up again as the conscious mispricing of risk was revealed.
Bitcoin spiked on the false representation of peace, and managed to hold on to a gain. Control frauds can ride on the waves of gullibility for quite some time, but will eventually fail. They always do.
This is madness, and it is the work of the darkness of the world. If you support it, this is what you serve.
Have a pleasant evening.
