A nice bit of prose from a favorite author:
".....I don't remember the last time I got such a feeling of chaos. SC scrapes by and wins their opening football game, Notre Dame loses, Serena is beaten in tennis, and is furious. She "loses it" in an avalanche of foul language and is fined. Womens' shoes go sado-massi and really crazy: it's a leg-show with skirts almost as high as the ladies' navels. Obama's approval rating takes a swan dive, conservative voters and columnists are accusing the Prez of "socialism," liberals are shouting epithets at conservatives. Roubini joins with Bill Gross in warning of a "sick recovery," gold climbs over one thousand, the Averages break out to new recovery highs, an eruption of articles appear about the unemployed, columnists warn about consumer debt, the government is doing everything it can to get Americans to spend more, ads screaming that housing has bottomed and profits lie ahead, and endless articles on the rise of China and the fall of a debt-choked USA. Wall Street's fat bonuses are denounced, Usain Bolt runs a phenomenal 200, and a Russian woman breaks the pole vault record. The Dow teeters on a further rise, the dollar see-saws at the 76 level, and gold clings to 1000 while the gold-haters try to drive it below 1000. With the dollar swooning, the Treasuries somehow hold their ground. Deflation battles inflation, does anyone really know what's going on?" |
