As I padded my way downstairs to my home office, I had the usual sense of anticipation about what the screens would hold for me. Many days are disappointing. Some are terrifying. And, from time to time, they are delightful.
This, I think, is going to be one of those days.
There is red splattered all over the screen, and even better, that punchable leach Jamie Dimon is having a bad morning. Any time the crooks have a bad day puts a spring in my step.
Indeed, long before I started making the trek to my favorite room in the world, I was thinking to myself what a galling kleptocracy we are living in right now. You’ve got people like Federal Reserve Vice Chair “Big Dick” Clarida actively trading the stock market ahead of Fed announcements. You’ve got Pelosi trading hundreds of millions of dollars in options on companies with active business in front of Congress. And, lest you think this is confined to a red state/blue state sort of thing, you’ve got good ol’ boy “Coach” Tommy Tuberville actively trading stocks, futures, and options in such volume that it rivals Pelosi’s.
So they’re all criminal scumbags, and the nation is simply too satisfied to care.
Evidently the President’s solution to all of this is to fulfill his widely-trumpeted diversity mandate with new candidates to the Federal Reserve, such as Lisa Cook. If she is the most brilliant, capable, and experienced person for the post, God bless her, give her the job. But all I know is that she’s an econ prof from an unremarkable state school (Michigan State University), so I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that in a nation of over 300 million people, maybe there’s more to it than simply her raw cerebral firepower.
But no matter. The country is on its way to utter ruin in any case, and I’m here to try to keep an eye on things and keep people supplied with Coke and Popcorn. And maybe even make a few bucks along the way.
I haven’t been this “short” in an extremely long time, and although it’s been brutal in recent weeks, by far my biggest sector is finance. So………LET’S GO JAMIE!
