Nothing new in principle but seeing the culprits/profiteers listed is interesting. Those were mostly the revenues, I think the total volume including opaque and convoluted transactions is disproportionately highter. Don't you think there is also a war futures market?

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. " Thomas Jefferson

Damn, this Jefferson was such a great mind!!! Every time I read a quote by him or his clique that basically anticipates things that have now gone very wrong I get really angry how so called American patriots can favor greed and corporatism, exactly doing what the Founding Fathers were trying to prevent and claiming they act in the name of the American people, in the name of democracy and freedom. Those assholes ruined America's reputation and now they are trying to finish the job and rob the American people (not to mention other peoples) of everything.

But I have to add that this is not corporatism in contrast to capitalism, that is capitalism in its purest form... Growth is king and if the domestic market limps, foreign markets have to be tapped, if necessary by war, to keep the economy growing. This pattern makes the next American fiasco a certainty, because the corporations cannot lose in a war!

by eborujion on 07/22/2009 05:01:34 PM EST