IS IT REAL?

Or is it surREAL? I don’t know. Maybe its both. Think about it. Can you wrap your brain around it? If you can’t then don’t feel alone. Most people that are awake enough to look into all of the daily machinations are reaching the point of cognitive over-saturation. Some people can deal with it through allowing cognitive dissonance to take over. Others will consciously resign themselves to just recognizing they can’t do anything about it and accept their impotence and just say I will only address what I as an insignificant peep can question. You understand don’t you? You are just so much chaff, to be discarded like the waste you are. 

I can accept that, but I think what made me question just how fare we are lost is a friend of mine that I play golf with regularly and is quite aware and agrees with 99% of what is wrong with the game made my jaw drop today. I mentioned on the previous post just how rigged the Company stock prices were through a variety of measures not to mention the Fed’s purchasing of SnP futures etc. and how the financial engineering was performed. None of this is really a true secret if you do your own search. What started my journey into the surreal was when I explained to him today that companies had purchased almost ONE TRILLION in share repurchases since early 2013 to keep their earnings per share appearing to grow and thereby elevating their stock prices. He then asked me if the Fed was doing it and I explained only indirectly by their QE giving the major banks the money to loan to the companies to buy their shares back. 

That’s where I lost him. He exclaimed thank god, I thought the Fed was secretly buying the shares and implied that the companies doing this instead of the Fed directly was a relief to him. If he can’t understand there is essentially no difference between either premise then the average Joe has no chance. They just will be hammered into mud. You will just have to decide yourself and make your own contributions to life. Go out and buy a Tesla S and make a million, its the “Amerikan way”. But one thing it is not….and that is it is NOT Free Market Capitalism. GL all