The Hell With "Too Big to Fail"

Anything that's "too big to fail" is just too damned big.

Yet still people continue to ignore that if you split one big company into a thousand pieces it doesn't take that long for the pieces to find each other and start to join back up. It's almost like a horror movie as chunks of some monster reassemble themselves.

The hell with banks to whom I am just a computer record.

Thomas L. Friedman writes in the New York Times, principally of the current (manufactured) economic crisis:

What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008 was when we hit the wall — when Mother Nature and the market both said: “No more.”

That's an interesting question. The Club of Rome triggered this whole "ecology" thing off with a report entitled Limits to Growth, and their 1972 work (yes, 37 years ago, count the increases in rapacious pollution since) now has the ring of unregarded prophecy.