<Too busy organizing my cash into neat little piles and counting it!! Then throwing it on the floor and doing it all over again.. Maybe I should pay closer attention???>
While you are playing in your money bin like Uncle Scrooge, remember than Uncle Green$pan is performing magic on it.
You are watching it like a hawk, stacking it up, pushing it over, diving in it like a porpoise, throwing it up and letting it hit you on the head, safely inside your armoured abode, no doubt with artillery facing out, missiles on the roof and the soil beneath electrified and poisoned.
Meanwhile Uncle Al clicks a wireless mouse, enters his password [or writes a check in the good old fashioned way] and lends the top bidders another $100 billion. Pretty soon, there is an awful lot of that money swishing around the place and when you decide to do something with yours, everyone looks at your pathetic pile, yawns and points out that they can borrow money from Uncle Al for 3% so you might as well leave yours in your money bin. Meanwhile, share prices zoom as people all try to swap their cash hoards, which have been looking pretty good lately compared with share prices, for a better investment than lending it to a bank [which has a better source from Uncle Al].
Just wading through this stream, there seems to be a lot of you pleased to have a stack of cash, albeit dwindled since the glory days of 31 December 1999 and early Y2K. When you all simultaneously decide that you can't eat money, drive it, talk into it, drink it or cuddle it [well you can cuddle it but it isn't very responsive] and throwing it up and letting it hit you on the head gets boring, what are you going to do with it?
You will have to spend it on some gratuitous goodies such as a new cellphone, a plane trip to Bali, a new luxury house, some Bollinger or maybe you will prefer to invest it in something earning more than 2% bank returns because those first class aircraft trips and the jet fuel for the Gulfstream is getting a bit expensive compared with your 2% return [before tax and inflation].
The stampede out of cash could be vigorous. When the mountains of money lurch off in some direction, it will be as noticeable as Uncle Sam's present visitation to Afghanistan. $1 trillion can't all fit into NewGlobalstar, or Yahoo! so it will have to squeeze into QUALCOMM and Microsoft. Hmmm, it won't even fit into those, so it'll be scuttling all over the place like an Islamic Jihadist looking for a place to hide. Any money left in the open, in defiance of Uncle Al and Uncle Sam will be decimated.
It's sort of like quantum tunneling. You seem to have your money secure, but with some prestidigitation, Uncle Green$pan tunnels through and removes it even while it is hitting you on the head. You only notice later.
Yes, you should pay closer attention. Peek out the window and see if you can't see Uncle Al casting incantations in your direction. He's right there, in the open. Look into your cyberspace crystal ball and he is there in full pixelated 256 colour splendour.
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