Tom Walker inquires of mute heaven: > ... are we entering an episode where the Fed shovels buckets of > under-the-table bailout dough into the gaping maws of hedgy banks > on the pretext that it is trying to avert a recession? Keynes only knows, Tom, but somehow I don't feel that my taxes are being misused even if so; it's all gotten far too abstract for such conventional gripes. Like just a big ho-hum, a Vonnegut joke. A geek pal has offered to write a program that incorporates my essence - whatever that might be - and hacks into major Fed databases. Now that excites me. If there's no revolution by next spring.... valis