Government intervention into the market economy has gotten so bad that even Woody Allen is making fun of it. From a New Yorker piece out today that riffs on the Monopoly board game:
"No one knows where the market is going," Schnabel said. "If I were you, I'd wait six months. Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner are meeting in Washington tomorrow and one of the topics they're discussing is the yellows. We'll know more after."
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the new Administration set aside two billion dollars of the stimulus package for people with money in their mattresses, and the Fed allotted it by size. Vorpich had a queen-size bed and received substantial help