*Makes you wonder if the global finance elite are gonna be the first aristocracy on Earth to build guillotines FOR THEMSELVES.
*After all, it's not like popular incredulity caused this financial crisis.
The shadow banking system totally *lost confidence in itself.* It opened its own veins right in public. God only knows what we would have seen if they didn't own all the newspapers.
*Man, if only Islamic fundamentalism would do something like this.
Gee whiz, they believe eighteen impossible things before breakfast, too.
What if they said "hey... maybe blowing ourselves up in public
DOESN'T make us go straight to heaven." "Maybe dressing living women in black shrouds is not the way forward."
D'ya think?
*Nope, it's got to be the Davos Great and the Good who are cowering like mice... You'd think there'd be at least a couple of clear-headed natural leader-types at Davos, who'd say something like "I think we better build some lifeboats for the women and children now." But whoever pulls us out of this situation...
I don't think they're gonna come out of this crowd. Better look elsewhere.
*Maybe a giant army of left-handed genius black guys.
How many of those do we have?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/davos/7856904.stm
(...)
"The people that have come to Davos fall into two categories: they are either humbled or deeply concerned.
"There hasn't been a session that didn't have a downbeat tone about it. And with old certainties gone - for example the assumption that free markets can fix everything - the discussions at times seem to be without direction.
"Loss of trust is at fairly disastrous levels, we are told
"Follow Tim Weber on Twitter (((because, unlike the BBC, Twitter has a business model, sort of)))
"The most depressing session of the day was also one of the most oversubscribed events in Davos history (with the obvious exception of the lunch with Angelina Jolie). (((Be fair here – at least Angelina likes to look after the orphans.)))
"A working dinner looking at why investment bank Lehman Brothers failed and how bad the financial crisis really is, was booked out within minutes, and had a waiting list of more than 150 people.
"It was a fascinating evening, intellectually stimulating, but after the first two apocalyptic assessments of the extent of the crisis I wondered whether the organisers would be handing out razor blades at the exit.(...)"
*Hey wow, this just in: Church to fix world economy by refuting social Darwinism.
I dunno, you get 200 million unemployed next quarter, we might be seeing some ricebowl Christianity in jigtime.
Man, Davos via Twitter is awesome. It's like five hundred flies on the wall. I could follow the buzz all day. But then
I'd never get any work done.... Not that they're paying me.
