An Experiment in Scotch

The Repub­li­can response to the Occupy Wall Street move­ment is one of shal­low­ness and mis­un­der­stand­ing. It’s hyp­o­crit­i­cal in nature. Instead of seiz­ing on the anger that is clearly dri­ving OWS as well as the Tea Party, con­ser­v­a­tives are malign­ing the motives of indi­vid­u­als and miss­ing the entire point which is that peo­ple are sick and …

Here is a sim­ple descrip­tion of what is dri­ving the mar­kets. It is basi­cally a counter party risk sit­u­a­tion involv­ing the biggest banks in the West­ern finan­cial sys­tem. If you keep this in mind most of the things that are hap­pen­ing will be more clear, even though the mind of the sta­tus quo rebels against …