Soon a hammer and sickle will be added to the American flag and the president will grow a beard.

As for us Europeans we will need to ally ourselves with Russia to protect our western values from the new communist threat.







Seriously now, it seems (and this might change) that economies with more sensible forms of capitalism than the US are surviving this much better. The US seems to be trapped into having to save 'too big to fail' corporations and the danger of doing that is the fact that, at the moment, there is nothing better for a big corporation than to fail and get a hand on this sweet juicy stack of government money. But it cannot do otherwise...how can you let the citigroup fail? Someone has to be there to finance the economy when the bears give their place to the bulls.