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It’s widely agreed that the world’s best-known crime family has stolen BILLIONS of dollars from their nitwit followers, particularly by way of crypto. The catastrophes have been legion – – but the latest scandal revolves around the hilariously-named World Liberty Financial, whose chart bears a striking resemblance to just about every other thing he has smeared with his reputation:
What a gyp.
The world was supposed to be falling apart by now. Collapsed peace talks. Surprise blockade. Turmoil from all sides. And yet the entire goddamned market is UP now. The drop has been completely undone.
Many years ago, the great George Carlin spoke of a tendency in this country, no matter what the circumstance, to assume that in the end everything would work out. We’re trained to believe it via our television shows, our musicals, and our movies: in this three-act play we call life, everything is going to be all right in the end. He referred to it as the American Okey-Doke.
This is precisely why, in the fact of news this weekend which should have the markets crashing by many thousands of points, we have equity futures that have flipped by about half a single percentage point.
