Burning Questions

Monday: Who appointed the financial wizards as Gods anyway? « The Confluence: "...What I can’t understand is how they managed to appoint themselves Gods in the first place. And was there a plan to first convince us to fork over our cash and then defraud us of the profits or did it just “happen”? The rise in the financial genius class happened right about the time Reagan took office. Reagan who preached “rugged individualism”, “voodoo economics” and the Laffer Curve. What we have 30 years later is a stratified society, a true class system, where the finance giants justify their existence in life as creating wealth, mostly for themselves. What is their purpose in life really? Who would be harmed if we got rid of the whole lot of them?..."