“All governments suffer a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, March 1985
29 December 2011
SP 500 and NDX Futues Daily Charts - Quiet Days Are Good for Painting
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.