Dow opens up 385.
You'll have to hold your nose, but this is just info..and seemingly relevant:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/there-is-something-not-rotten/?gwh=DC98543207C0B2316270B...
As for the spectator bit, I agree. But not sure what sort of a exec. edict could come into play here. Been a spectator since Jan '08. Relegated to it. We err if we think there is much that can be done from that office.
This is a huge push....an act of defiance on the part of the global oligarchy. Sub-level Fed Courts looking like they might actually do something about fraud in banking. Pentagon going balistic over potential cuts to defense. Civil disorder a real possibility if entitlements don't stay funded, even though the entitlement dispersments are there every bit as much, even more actually, for the profiting of the extractive industries, ours included, as they are for the pass through direct recipients. Jobs would be better, but jobs dip into the world of real money.
And another war on the near horizon?
To those who have access to the means of extraction, there is no money to be made if money can't be freely fabricated.
Look for a lull into complacency and then a big unemployment spike come Spring-early Summer. And an easily won Romney or Gingrich election.
Unless, of course, the people, buinsesses and governments of So. Eutrope don't bite. But it's going to be run top down, which could get ugly.
