Space Invaders

I remember playing Space Invaders for hours and hours. Link It was a great game when it came out in the late 70’s I think. I had an Apple computer and my friends and I would take turns defending ourselves from an ever increasing crescendo of blips raining down from above. In recent months we have been confronted with many blips that seem difficult to zap away. The complexity of the financial contrivances of powerful people connected with wall street is so hard to unravel any hope of a G20 photo-op actually fixing any fundamental problems is remote. These powerful people are dangerous right now because just as your economic future is in turmoil so it theirs. South America and Russia have closed their doors to economic cooperation, Eastern Europe is hopeless and China has resisted any infiltration of their banking system. They have expanded as far as they can go and desperate people will take desperate measures. To continue this economic dreamtime I feel we can expect unusual occurrences to shock and subdue any changing of the financial guard. I have always felt uncomfortable with the sharp rise in terrorism articles and reports just before 9/11 and even more so with the out of the blue warning of anthrax attacks a week before anything happened. Link All too coincidental for my book. During the great depression a world war was undertaken with Germany who looked financially very much like what the US may resemble in the near future. Is history repeating itself? A world war today would last all of 10 minutes and the result would be dire. What alternative options do the power brokers have to create a diversion of the magnitude of WWII without the destruction of nuclear weapons? I can only think of one. We shall watch the news reports as the commercial real-estate bubble deflates and the credit card companies get their bailouts and as this fiasco worsens we will see the beginnings of first contact of the hostile kind. From an investment perspective tinfoil should be a hot commodity and aluminum futures would seem prudent. Have a great weekend all and with the nicer weather arriving it may be time to get outside and do some stargazing…