When I was growing up, radio programs like "Gang Busters" used to tell stories of lawmen fighting gangs running gambling rings, bookies, and drug pushers. Now the state is the bookie and is soon be become the pusher. And there is preponderance of gangsters who are politicians.
This is from an economist friend of mine:
--now with the official Opposition now in control of half of government, I think the markets are slowly anticipating creeping policy paralysis. the markets are still wary of democratic party promises of rolling back tax reform and reregulating the...