The recent turmoil in the financial markets has people turning to psychics for advice. The New York Times has an article today detailing how psychics’ clients used to be all about “love, love, love” and now it’s all about “money, money, money,” as one person interviewed for the article put it. I don’t think I’d trust a psychic to give me financial advice and I’m guessing you wouldn’t either, so if you are looking for some words of wisdom about the market, click here.
Put all the main manipulators of finance, the bankers, insurance agencies and stock exchange ownses in one room and get them to cme up with reglations to prevent future Enrons ,Fannie Mays, and the current players involved in the excess use of credit. When agreement is reached on federal tegulations to be passed by the government, pass the 170-200 billion package and pay off the holders of mortgages up to one million dollars at a rate of 70 cents to the dollar of the value of the loan/mortgage.
The Psychic Investor, starring Bruce Willis as a brilliant hedge fund manager, now relegated to finding the winners instead of the losers. The problem is–the winners are psychic too, so they pretend to be losers to throw him off the scent. Our hero though, can see right through their guise because he’s the hero after all, but also because you don’t have to be psychic to know when your country’s treasury is being fleeced. He decides his talents will serve him better in Las Vegas for a while. Hey! What happens in Vegas never should have happened, but at least you can still prey on the losers there. Better yet, pray for the losers. Come on…pray for them. After all, our greatest winners often start out as losers. Seldom though do our greatest winners end up losers. Times are changing though. The bad guys are the good guys and the good guys are the losers now. The degree to which a bad guy is good, is determined by his success. The good guy used to be good. Now he only need be successful at what he is doing. Even hitmen and drug dealers and cold blooded killers can be the good guys in our society. They must be psychic to get away with so much—so much of everything, fame, fortune, the girl, the car, not to mention breaking the law. Didn’t anyone break the law in this fiasco which led to talk of a bailout? I liked the Enron fiasco better. At least the government could find someone who broke the law. This time they can’t even do that.