Now here”s the spirit of self reliance:

“Which brings me back to the collapsing markets, the product of fart-in-the-wind economics.

I can foresee on 5th Avenue in Park Slope a beautiful resurgence of shuttered shops, rotted storefronts, the end of money’s welcome in its hypocrite hug, the end of surfeit, a return to normalcy. No more strawberries in January at the store on the corner – the strawberries were never meant to be eaten in winter anyway. Perhaps we might even see a return to the city of people who manufacture something other than air. I will be driven out first – because this screed is all air! So be it!”

Christopher Ketcham at Counterpunch. 

Comment: 

Only problem I have with this essay is the confusion between casino capitalism and the free market..and the reflexive assumptions about what growth is (assumptions our corporatist masters also hold, oddly enough)