10-10-2008, 08:56 AM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:S&P and the Dow have both crashed down over 7% today.
Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph's roving Business Correspondent, spooky Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (yes the same AE-P who relentlessly pursued Clintonian "conspiracies" during Bill's Presidency), has totally lost it:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comme...-euro.html
AE-P often appears to articulate the views of certain parts of the British establishment. So, this faction is now happy for the Fed to accept "any junk as collateral", and to offer loans "without any security at all"?!?!?
Some years ago the Daily Bellylaugh published an article to the effect that 7,000 (some had it as 700,000) Chinese troops were massing on the US Mexican border.
By the time I managed to stand up again, after having fallen down in helpless laughter, I was suddenly all come over with entrepreneurial spirit and saw a niche in the market I could fill and become a Dong millionaire overnight:
Sino-Mex cuisine.
Not so much a chain of Taco Bell but rather Wong Bell.
Think about it. An entirely new fusion food. The menu could include:
Chili Won Ton.
Enchilada Wandering Dragon
Taco's in black bean sauce
Sweet & sour Fajitas
Salsa with rice crackers
Guacamole chow mein
So I'll hear nothing bad said about friend Ambrose because for a moment I was almost rolling in it.
He certainly was.
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