Just a random thought, but the new reporter on Bloomberg television bears a remarkable resemblance to Louis Winthorpe III from Trading Places. The speech and mannerisms are an even better match than the look. To Adam's credit he actually knows the financial business, which makes him Einstein compared to the anchors Debby and Matt.
Bernanke and Summers can be the Duke Brothers.
And Timmy can be Clarence Beeks.
Life imitates art? If so where is Ophelia? Oh, she is on CNBC. Woof.
"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994