The US markets closed early in a light holiday trade that was largely technical.
I think if the financiers could see their future they would wish that the mountains would fall on them now to hide their shame.
"It is crudely general to suggest collective responsibility for the German populace. It is, however, fair to suggest that those who continued to defend the idea of Germanhood publicly as the war went on—when this had become synonymous with barbarity—were in fact renouncing their humanity for the sake of individual survival and peace of mind."
Panayiotis Demopoulos, Götterdämmerung: Suicide Music