INSIDE JOB (DVD)

Charles Ferguson’s award-winning documentary on the economic Depression that has stunned and devastated many in our generation, and blighted our descendants’ hopes, dreams, and opportunities.  The major players are old enough for their character (or lack thereof) to be written on their faces.  Watching the guilty being interviewed, I was reminded of vermin caught in a spotlight, evading, side-stepping, hemming and hawing, scurrying for cover.  I’m grateful not to  have the nauseating job of being the wife of any of them.  I met Larry Summers when as Harvard’s new president, he spoke at a San Diego Harvard Club luncheon.  My impression?  Sleaze, so saturated with it that it oozed from his pores and glistened on the surface.  The guilty are entrenched in the top echelons of our government and financial system.  No future president will  try to bring them to justice or make them forfeit their ill-gotten gains.  The United States is ruled by criminals and has been for a long time.

Lesson:  if a potential investment is too complicated to understand, it doesn’t mean you aren’t bright enough and should defer to the seller; it means he’s snowing you.