Posted 5:08 PM by Gene

We wonder at what point trading in things like commodities acquires the same moral reek as trading in tobacco stocks. Tobacco companies deal in pain and death. So do the Cramermaniacs. They live in their own small super-rich Gekko Kudlowish worlds where the Golden Rule is a Commie plot. To be sure, however, we cannot trust the idiots in the Insane Asylum on Capitol Hill to fix this fix. Democrats want conservation but not exploration. Republicans want exploration and not conservation. Democrats believe in regulating the markets to within an inch of their lives. Republicans believe in no regulation. Democrats and Republicans believe in throwing our money at the Lobbyists' Plaything of the Moment. The respective knee-jerk lockstep sieg-heil KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH! KLUMPH!ing only points to more conflict, and means a solution, if a solution there is, is impossible, even if one were possible in the first place.

The only true solution, perhaps, to use Bill Bennett's well-worn gag, is shame. The thing is, you don't shame Cramermaniacs.