also, by way of taking a quick look at individuals as a way of seeing into the present situation, and re Credit Suisse, the Clinton reversal of Glass-Steagall making Citibank the breakthrough first “too-big-to-fail” (read, the first socialist takeover of a vital national organ of private enterprise) and the Enron board members and consultants now running money and policy both in and out of gov’t for the Obama admin, please consider one Richard Holbrooke –another Credit Suisse & Citi board member (stepped down only a few months ago) & US gov’t via Democratic party triple affiliate.
Holbrooke is distinguished by having been hauled before congress (between stints as a top-level US gov’t official) as a principle in an earlier Credit Suisse scam, and having “taken the fifth”, and then despite that disgrace STILL having held his party place well enough to’ve become your current special envoy to an unimportant little backwater posting known as Afghanistan/Pakistan, from which perch he quickly halted the Bush poppy-destruction program. Now a year later, one reads of a new flood of high-quality heroin hitting the American end-user market at a high school lunch-money bargain price of $2.50 per ‘bump’.
An ‘unanticipated consequence’ of the war on terror?
Like those dark pool hedge funds are ‘unanticipated consequences’ of Enron loopholes having created Sarbox loopholes, et cetera & so forth?
Like an ‘unanticipated consequence’ of having so politicized white-collar crime that it is practically beyond ordinary statutory meaning is a market-murdering Chicago shadow syndicate that last Thursday sensed the Greece’d skids under the bids and then –just after the clock deadline for market-curbs (exchange rules to slow the action) –probably legally flooded Proctor & Gamble, collapsed the bid, and then covered their shorts (scenario includes that sabotage spectre raised at the highest level –simple opportunism? –simply too good not to use to advance an Orwellian national security ethos)?
Like the (so sanctimoniously proferred) responsible new taxes and regulations are now having the ‘unanticipated consequence’ of destroying the natural phenomena of zillions of small daily hourly quick efficient continual responses to individual P&Ls and balance sheets?
Like the death of western markets and economies and societies and cultures will be the ‘unanticipated consequence’ of never being able to anticipate any consequences at all, because, lets face it, not everybody is equally good at it so it gives brains and character an unfair advantage?
But…one wonders, according to whom, exactly, and for what ?
