Very light volume day, and the tape was duly painted into the year end.
The commmentary on the financial news networks is so disassociated from reality it is almost like something out of Sunset Boulevard.
I'm ready for my closeup Mr. DeMille.
Every empire in its official discourse has said it is not like the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest 'mission civilisatrice.' Edward W. Said