31-01-2009, 10:30 AM
I want to open a financial centre in the Artic where legions of besuited wise guys and friendly bankers can engage in naked short selling without regard to impact or criticism and rake in hundreds of billions each year.
It'll be great.
We can also engage in our favourite stock pumping and dumping strategies, play the central banks of the world on the foreign exchange and money markets, thanks to buying inside information, and manipulate the commodities markets on a daily basis - so the price of oil (for example) leaps to $140 plus a barrel and then back down to under $70 a barre a few months later.
We make bucket loads of money when the price goes up and we make shed loads of money when we force it down again. Same deal with rice and other essential foodstuffs.
Come to think of it though, NY and London have this franchise already...
It'll be great.
We can also engage in our favourite stock pumping and dumping strategies, play the central banks of the world on the foreign exchange and money markets, thanks to buying inside information, and manipulate the commodities markets on a daily basis - so the price of oil (for example) leaps to $140 plus a barrel and then back down to under $70 a barre a few months later.
We make bucket loads of money when the price goes up and we make shed loads of money when we force it down again. Same deal with rice and other essential foodstuffs.
Come to think of it though, NY and London have this franchise already...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14