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<p>[QUOTE="Good Cents, post: 3332343, member: 100720"]This is my humble, if not long-winded opinion. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don't believe in thumbing my nose at those who are knowledgeable and putting down the experts. I seek out the experts and the educated in every area that makes a difference in my life.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the same time I would like to point out that even in the financial world, Economists (the guys that are supposed to know and be able to predict what is going up, down and sideways) are at times viewed with ridicule and their views taken with a grain of salt. But even then, it's all relative.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, there isn't some "Cabal" of "Elite" or "Deep State" operatives controlling world finance. Not Jewish or otherwise. Those are some of the oldest superstitions in the book, used to manipulate and rile up the angry masses. They are also the themes of great movies and TV series. But they have as much to do with reality as Superheroes do. The reason we like watching these things is because they are simple ideas - bad guys who are bad and good guys who are good and save the day. Evil geniuses able to manipulate the entire world with a hero overcoming them despite the odds. These simple themes appeal to us in very basic ways, which is why it is so common to use them in entertainment and which is also why it is so easy to spread superstitions and misinformation about a group of powerful people and their evil intentions, or "the other" - a group of evil people who have plotted, planned and caused all our problems - "The Cabal", "Elites", Jews, "Deep State" and others.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the truth of the matter is that no group of people, no matter how educated, smart or wealthy is that dedicated to each other to work together for generations or even decades, or have enough widespread control of enough pieces of the very enormous puzzle of "Financial Dominion" or "World Dominion".</p><p><br /></p><p>The truth of the matter is that every once in a while the SHTF causing major financial upheaval - be it a war, world wars, local unrest, gov't corruption, business corruption or natural disasters.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most recent "Great Recession" beginning in 2008 was caused by business corruption. Wall Street firms and banks took advantage of a not-updated-enough oversight system and that caused a credit crash which caused financial upheaval that reverberated worldwide.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was no major "Cabal" or group of Jews or "Elitists" or people who use high vocabulary words plotting the financial downfall of the world. It was lots of individuals working in a certain sector looking the other way when they knew that the system was being taken advantage of in their own company. It was CEOs and CFOs and upper management and middle management and lots of little guys not wanting to lose their jobs (and who can blame them!) who knew if they reported on what was going on they would get a pink slip. It was the slowness of the gov't financial policing system in not being able to keep up with the latest abuses of the financial system. It was thousands of individuals who looked the other way and tried to "mind their own business" when they saw things weren't quite right and may lead to problems down the road. IT WAS AN AGE OLD PROBLEM that happens in every industry and has been going on since the first lowly worker tried to speak up about his superior's misconduct after witnessing his boss skimming profits.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stuff just happens - lots of bad and stupid stuff - and sometimes when the bad stuff happens things fall apart. Things may fall apart in the next 100 years in ways we cannot envision or imagine now and have no way of predicting. But things will also in all likelihood come back together again, because that has been the human story. Whether it is a natural disaster, a war, an industry collapse or a financial one - no one is planning it, and we will eventually recover from it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Good Cents, post: 3332343, member: 100720"]This is my humble, if not long-winded opinion. I don't believe in thumbing my nose at those who are knowledgeable and putting down the experts. I seek out the experts and the educated in every area that makes a difference in my life. At the same time I would like to point out that even in the financial world, Economists (the guys that are supposed to know and be able to predict what is going up, down and sideways) are at times viewed with ridicule and their views taken with a grain of salt. But even then, it's all relative. No, there isn't some "Cabal" of "Elite" or "Deep State" operatives controlling world finance. Not Jewish or otherwise. Those are some of the oldest superstitions in the book, used to manipulate and rile up the angry masses. They are also the themes of great movies and TV series. But they have as much to do with reality as Superheroes do. The reason we like watching these things is because they are simple ideas - bad guys who are bad and good guys who are good and save the day. Evil geniuses able to manipulate the entire world with a hero overcoming them despite the odds. These simple themes appeal to us in very basic ways, which is why it is so common to use them in entertainment and which is also why it is so easy to spread superstitions and misinformation about a group of powerful people and their evil intentions, or "the other" - a group of evil people who have plotted, planned and caused all our problems - "The Cabal", "Elites", Jews, "Deep State" and others. But the truth of the matter is that no group of people, no matter how educated, smart or wealthy is that dedicated to each other to work together for generations or even decades, or have enough widespread control of enough pieces of the very enormous puzzle of "Financial Dominion" or "World Dominion". The truth of the matter is that every once in a while the SHTF causing major financial upheaval - be it a war, world wars, local unrest, gov't corruption, business corruption or natural disasters. The most recent "Great Recession" beginning in 2008 was caused by business corruption. Wall Street firms and banks took advantage of a not-updated-enough oversight system and that caused a credit crash which caused financial upheaval that reverberated worldwide. There was no major "Cabal" or group of Jews or "Elitists" or people who use high vocabulary words plotting the financial downfall of the world. It was lots of individuals working in a certain sector looking the other way when they knew that the system was being taken advantage of in their own company. It was CEOs and CFOs and upper management and middle management and lots of little guys not wanting to lose their jobs (and who can blame them!) who knew if they reported on what was going on they would get a pink slip. It was the slowness of the gov't financial policing system in not being able to keep up with the latest abuses of the financial system. It was thousands of individuals who looked the other way and tried to "mind their own business" when they saw things weren't quite right and may lead to problems down the road. IT WAS AN AGE OLD PROBLEM that happens in every industry and has been going on since the first lowly worker tried to speak up about his superior's misconduct after witnessing his boss skimming profits. Stuff just happens - lots of bad and stupid stuff - and sometimes when the bad stuff happens things fall apart. Things may fall apart in the next 100 years in ways we cannot envision or imagine now and have no way of predicting. But things will also in all likelihood come back together again, because that has been the human story. Whether it is a natural disaster, a war, an industry collapse or a financial one - no one is planning it, and we will eventually recover from it.[/QUOTE]
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