18-06-2009, 09:40 AM
Another interesting report Ed. I was taken by the same amount of the bonds as by the TARP programme. Very curious.
It is also a highly valid argument that no counterfeiter would fake a bundle of (Kennedy) bonds that have never, ever existed. Who would cash them? Disney studios? Certainly no one else would consider exchanging them for cash, so why do it. Clearly they are modeled on originals and that, to my mind, is where the real legs of this story lies --- the Kennedy Bonds.
Just for the record, bearer bonds bear numbers which can and are used to trace them. No banker or financier in his right mind would accept/purchase a bearer bond at face value without firstly establishing its authenticity. Usually this is a fairly simple process. So to that extent they are not like cash money.
It is also a highly valid argument that no counterfeiter would fake a bundle of (Kennedy) bonds that have never, ever existed. Who would cash them? Disney studios? Certainly no one else would consider exchanging them for cash, so why do it. Clearly they are modeled on originals and that, to my mind, is where the real legs of this story lies --- the Kennedy Bonds.
Just for the record, bearer bonds bear numbers which can and are used to trace them. No banker or financier in his right mind would accept/purchase a bearer bond at face value without firstly establishing its authenticity. Usually this is a fairly simple process. So to that extent they are not like cash money.
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