Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 26, 2012 Author:Various Post Date:2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:1399236 Comments:2390
The other Big Idea is the institutionalization of theft, the ‘Greatish Game’. This isn’t a particularly new, what inspired the Spanish Conquistadors hard on the heels of Chris Colon post-1492 was theft from American natives of whatever wasn’t bolted down, then the theft of the natives themselves. Not much has changed since the 16th century, the methods have become more diverse and the natives have become slightly more skeptical. The popular instrument is investment fraud/currency traps: cars, suburban ‘villas’, ‘collectibles’, swim-pools, stocks, credit default swaps, subordinated- and un-subordinated loans, REITs, gold mines and gold mining stocks, mega-yachts, private submarines … the Endless China Boom that will save/overrun the world, (Bloomberg):
