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Conquistadors
Markets were somewhat muddled to start the new week as investors ponder more evidence of dysfunction in D.C., where brinksmanship between America's warring political duopoly risks pushing the country over a fiscal cliff, imperiling millions of jobless and thousands of small businesses in the process.
The White House is said to mull unilateral action in the event Congress remains gridlocked, but the scope and character of any presidential intervention was initially unclear.
Global equities feel
Golden bullets vs. water purification, protein,antibiotics.
Humans are a herd species. We are not immune to that.
I do find it ironic that the very reason why the “New World” appeared to be so untouched when Europeans began settling it might be the same thing that wipes most of us out for when the next conquerors arrive.