Almost half of British and Italian soldiers were killed or wounded and three fourths of French and Russian forces suffered the same fate. Forty million dead or wounded human beings.

For what?

America got off lightly with only about half a million casualties. We had control of our habit. And so with our

big stick in hand

ewww…

and banana obsessions in our own backyard

so we’re just not doing phrasing then

we swore we’d never crash. Which is exactly what we did of course in 1929.

kind of funny how depression fits both contexts of your metaphor. I wonder if they do that on purpose

Fractals my friend, the smaller pattern represents the larger and vice versa. Whether you create a moral hazard by bailing out one too many stock schemes or you’re on the other end scheming for just one more hit,

abuse is abuse