I had the opportunity to attend the Greater New Haven Chamber's Annual Meeting yesterday at the Omni Hotel. The chamber has been holding annual meetings for over 200 years. The first visionaries were concerned about their shipping profits due to the European Wars. Let me digress and get the point. All discussions about main street, wall street, fiscal chaos, rational economics , irrational economics are diversions. The moment that mankind decided by fiat and or force that human bodies could be mortgaged, insured,monitized, traded, divided, derived,debased, debauched , expensed and deducted our rationality for creating and treasuring value was destroyed. Value and treasure were gained for some because it was taken-raped-stolen- from others.Old news you might say. A predator-pirate of olden days, does not have to look far for the current day derivations of red lining, housing discrimination,neo slavery, predatory lending and Goldman Sachs alleged theft.
This gargantuan hyperbole and delusional cognitive dissonance escape under the linquistic guise of "markets" is nauseating at best. Belief systems dictate behavior.
(Ficklin Media Note: Cornell Wright, Norm Forrrester and Gerard Clark were in attendance yesterday and the struggle for economic justice continues. I salute them for waging the war.)
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