Sunday, March 1, 2009

The Credo (abridged)

I believe it is divine justice that those who cause financial catastrophes are rewarded with public money, while innocent bystanders are punished in their stead. I believe that central banks can print all the money anyone will ever need. I believe that if one stimulus package does not work, the next one surely will.

I believe in worldwide Ponzi schemes and universal gullibility. I believe that reckless lending can be cured by reckless borrowing and that fraudulent borrowing can be healed by fraudulent lending. I believe that each trillion of hallucinated dollars that disappears in a puff of Wall Street smoke then always reappears magically from behind a Treasury Department mirror.

I believe that economic stability and confidence will return when every failing business is bailed out, with no failure too small to be left behind.

I believe
that the end of days shall come when there is only one institution left, comprehensively unified, far too big to fail, owning everything and controlling nothing. It is in this one true financial institution that I put my faith, truly gigantic, truly bankrupt, amen. Source

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