“The flaw with The Fed’s model of real earnings growth is that it is not organic growth, but a massive block of sugar. And a sugar crash invariably follows.”
Anthony Sanders
“There is no clean way to make a hundred million bucks. Somewhere along the line guys got pushed to the wall, nice little businesses got the ground cut out from under them. Decent people lost their jobs. Big money is big power, and big power gets used wrong. It’s the system…
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean.”
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
The book “The Godfather” is 10 times better than the movie. The 1st page starts off:
BEHIND EVERY GREAT FORTUNE IS A CRIME
BALZAC
I didn’t get it back in 1969 when it came out. I do now.
Ironic that directly beneath is an ad for a book promising “Endless Income.”
I know several people with hundreds of millions. Some made it just like Boy Scouts and never screwed anyone. Some of them are phony assed MF’ers of the highest order. The rich are no different from the rest of us. They just have more money. That allows them to do more good or more bad depending on what kind of person they are. Just wish like everybody else they would leave a bunch of it to me.
This has not escaped the people of Mexico that voted for the new MORENA party. MORENA is now proposing a law that will enable the state to claw back not just the money a crooked politico has stolen but also the money he’s stashed with third parties.
great quote from Raymond Chandler…