Stocks bounced today after the big decline yesterday in part because of some optimism on earnings after last night's Alcoa beat.
The rally was a bit subdued. Let's see if more earnings come in positively.
"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, 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. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel