Tidy house, messy mind
Bookworm on Nov 16 2009 at 10:21 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
The cleaning ladies come today, so I’ve been putting the finishing touches on tidying the house, so that they can do the heavy-lifting part of cleaning. The house l0oks very nice, albeit fuzzy, crumby and dusty. When the gals leave, I will have, for one brief, shining moment, a clean house. I love that moment.
If only it was as simple to sort out my brain. Things seems to slop all over the place. When it comes to what Poiret called “the little gray cells,” I can’t compartmentalize the housekeeping, and the carpooling, and the legal work, and the blogging. They keep jostling for space at the forefront of my brain and getting ridiculously muddled. No tidying here, followed by a good cleaning. I’m just staying one step ahead of the mudslide of my own thoughts.
The one thought that keeps pushing its way to the forefront of my mental mess today is triggered by suek’s interesting question, which is whether the Left planted sleepers on the Right, which would explain the steady stream of idiocy emanating from the Republican party. It might be easy to laugh this idea off if it weren’t for the fact that the end of the Cold War and the opening of the KGB files revealed that a lot of “wacko” theories about Communists (the KGB fomented the anti-war movement, the KGB pushed drugs on America’s youth, etc.) were absolutely true. That is, during the 1960s and 1970s, the mainstream castigated these claims (claims my parents made) as paranoid conspiracy theories — and then history proved that, in fact, these assaults on our society were an exceptionally smart move by an enemy in a Cold War to destabilize our system. It was only by grace of the fact that the American system is fundamentally solid and the Communist system fundamentally weak that we won.
So it’s perfectly possible to believe that committed Leftists — not people in thrall to a foreign government, but simply people in thrall to a Leftist agenda — could set themselves up as ineffectual Republicans in the hope of destabilizing the “other” party in a two-party system. Except I don’t believe it because, in keeping with the principle of Occam’s razor (opt for a simple solution over a complicated one), I think the problem lies with a certain class of Republican. He (or she, but I’ll stick to he), is a good-looking, friendly guy, who believes in broad terms in the American dream. He thinks we live in a wonderful country and really likes the idea of freedom. He’s not too impressed with the world abroad, although he appreciates that the Europeans boast better art and architecture than we do. He is likeable and — and this is the important one — he wants to be liked.
This guy gets elected to public office because he is personable and an obvious patriot. And off he goes to D.C., outside of his small conservative community, and meets two things for the first time: (1) genuine liberals and (2) the media. With both, two of his traits come to the fore: his less than stellar grasp of the conservative principles that he intuitively appreciates, but doesn’t really understand; and his desperate desire to be a likeable, good-guy. He’s not a screaming right-wing maniac. He’s a reasonable guy who will buy a reasonable compromise — except that, like the deluded Israelis who negotiated for so long with the Palestinians, he hasn’t figured out that his negotiating partners aren’t reasonable at all. They’re binary, and they want his destruction.
That’s the scenario I think we see played out over and over again, whether we’re talking about George Bush, Michael Steele, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, or Olympia Snowe. These politicians don’t quite understand their own principles, they want to be liked, and they cave, over and over again, in perpetual search of the perfect compromise with an implacable opponent.
So, while I think suek had a great and interesting idea, I’m currently thinking the fault truly lies with us, and cannot be ascribed to them.
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>>So, while I think suek had a great and interesting idea, I’m currently thinking the fault truly lies with us, and cannot be ascribed to them.>>
Maybe. Or the perfect scenario to set up the results they want…
I can’t totally disagree with you – we are often our own worst enemies. And it’s much easier to “go along to get along”. It’s _hard_ to recognize that you’re at war – either literally or figuratively speaking – it means that you have to either yield or fight. And if yielding means just a _little_ bit of your rights, what’s the big deal? Fighting can – and often does – mean all or nothing. Just a _little_ bit seems like a more reasonable choice…but if you continue yielding that little bit, pretty soon you’re left with nothing – even if you’ve lost no blood in the process. Are you really better off?
Of course, it would require the dedication of a person who is a complete soldier of the philosophy – because s/he would never get any credit, and in fact would probably be despised by those on their own side because true motivation could never be out in the open. Do such people exist? To be honest – I think lack of such dedicated Marxists and such non-egoist Marxists is a better argument than that of simply our own weaknesses…
Still – maybe the undercover operative function is one that appeals to some people…manipulation without discovery. I don’t know. Possible, I think. I’m thinking at the moment of how I’ve encouraged right behavior in my own children – the well placed word or encouragement – and how I sometimes introduce ideas to my husband when I know that a straightforward presentation is likely to get turned down.
You know…. “It’s a shame we can’t do (whatever).” Immediate response is rarely “yeah…it is”…it’s usually “of course we can”. Or “Why can’t we?’ We’re all stupid sometimes. Oh yeah…and the authoritarian types – like a lot of Republicans – are the ones who most don’t like being told they “can’t” do something…
>>it means that you have to either yield or fight>>
Which means that you either win or lose. Nobody wants to lose. But if you go head to head, somebody _will_. “Compromise” seems like such a _nice_ thing. We’re all taught to share. We’re all taught to be “nice”. Nobody wants to draw any lines…that would mean somebody is _wrong_!! Oh no…not _wrong_!!! And winning means someone has to lose – that’s not nice either, now, is it.
Boy. Have we been set up.
Boy. Have we been set up.
http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/11/15/top_stories/doc4b004a82b3897267062133.txt
And the DLI (Defense Language Institute) only used native speakers to teach the military – like my husband.
He denies that the koran says what extremists are using as justification for jihad. He has been taught the kufir version, I suspect, and because it comes from “native speakers” assumes that he has learned all of it. In fact, I think I recall that one of his teachers was a Christian. Who probably left islamic lands for good reasons.
But he still believes that muslims are “good” people.
He hasn’t yet apologized for calling me a “narrow minded bigot”, although he has admitted that _maybe_ there was something to the islamic jihad accusation…
Probably the reason we’ve stayed married so long is that we’re both equally stubborn…so I don’t hold it against him. I didn’t have the “islam is good” indoctrination he did, so it was easier to identify them as enemies. He lived among them and learned to know them as just people. He doesn’t want to give that up. It’s hard to identify former friends as enemies. We just don’t want to do that.
Has anyone else noticed that “islam” and “muslim” without capitals earns a red underline, but christian without a capital doesn’t? Checking jewish … yup. Jewish without a capital does. But christian doesn’t. Hmmmmm.
Interesting, how early indoctrination can effect one’s views and opinions (DLI). Maybe your husband’s faith in how/who/why he was educated in kuffir style would have to be re-examined by him and this could be more emotionally threatening than he’s able to deal with. Calling you a ‘narrow minded bigot’ is easier or safer than questioning the, let’s say, limited view of islam he got from the military. I mean, how does one examine any faith without going to more than one source and then asking hundreds of questions. I guess blind faith is fine, as long as it’s not out to kill you, but when one is blinded by faith – and you are out to kill, it can’t be called anything other than a cult!
I just don’t know how anyone reason’s away all the tragedy. I’d give him a couple of books by Aayon Hirsi Ali – Infidel would be a good place to start. Her story is compelling and may have some impact. It would make a fine Christmas present. Put your name in place of hers’ and see how he ‘feels’ about it all.
suek..off topic, but I know that you ‘follow the money’ and if you haven’t saved this site (The Financial Ninja) here’s your chance. The links and reads are good and I add complicated for my addled brain.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FiNhXIv5StE/SvilTspLorI/AAAAAAAAEaA/y1D7OpRxT54/s1600-h/spx.png
The Financial Ninja is one of my bookmarks…! I haven’t checked it much lately…I’ve been checking The Market Ticker and Mitch Shedlock (?) (but have that link only at home) and trying to make sense out of the situation. Still not getting too far. I read the words and they seem to make sense, but really – only in a general sense. Too much financial parlay with jargon for me to really grasp.
I’ll give it a spin again – nothing I see leads me to think good thoughts, though. My first gut reaction is to buy gold. Then I try to visualize days ahead when the dollar is in the status of providing heat from the fireplace and wonder what my gold is going to do for me…shave off a bit and take it down to the local corner grocery? Buy stocks so when inflation hits the peak, there’s off-setting value in stocks?
I just don’t know….
I’d be the last person in the world to suggest what to buy/sell/hold. Without going into too many personal details here..I know Mr. A for the past 20 years. Extremely bright and in his 70’s now. Mr. A is a high end investment advisor, lawyer. The firm focuses only on high end accounts, very high. I saw him recently (family friend) and we spoke of politics (we’re on the same page) and since he is very waspy, I carefully asked what he thought about ‘diamonds vs gold’ to balance out the losses, we’re all taking in stocks, etc. He only said that he has been invested in gold. He did not say what percentage he held and said that it was a terrible financial decision to go off the gold standard years ago. I’ll leave it at that and only add that the Feds are going to have to raise the debt level next year. I believe they need the consent of Congress to do it.
Have to agree about the lexicon of money and investments. Just when I think I have a small grasp of it, I read on and find that I know and understand less and less. Since politics and money are intertwined, going with your political instincts makes sense to me.
Mish Shedlock…
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/
Following links, I came to this page. I bookmarked it, not because it looks like one I necessarily want to follow, but because he has such a nice orderly and complete looking blogroll! More to check out…!
http://paper-money.blogspot.com/
suek, I just went to the site (I think I was there earlier today). I would like to add to the comment below. It’s more than the past 7 years, I think it’s closer to 13 years at this point. Whatever accumulated wealth we thought we had can buy no more than it could in 1996. The level of ineptness is staggering (SEC/Madoff), Medicare/Medicaid paying out $40Billion in over and corrupt payments. I am angry that the Feds think they can continue to swipe their Big Fat ATM cards down our kazoos and keep taking money out of our accounts.
We now are “discovering” what I have written about for more than a year first-hand – the so-called “growth” over the last seven years has all been a fraud, instead being nothing more than additional debt. Ponzi-finance has taken over every area of our economy, from government to private business, and has run to the natural limit of “the greater sucker”, now leaving all of the people beguiled and bedeviled exposed as the naked-swimmers that they are.
>>I believe they need the consent of Congress to do it.>>
Unfortunately, that’s unlikely to be a problem – until Jan of 2011, at least. And even then, we can only hope…!
>>Just when I think I have a small grasp of it, I read on and find that I know and understand less and less.>>
Exactly. I keep looking for blogs that will make it all crystal clear. Haven’t found one yet! I _have_ gotten the idea – crystal clear – that “fiat” money – printing unlimited supplies of paper money without bothering with sticky things like a dollar to gold ration – is definitely going to result in disaster. But how that will affect us and society, and how we’ll function _in_ society – that’s as clear as mud.
clear as mud – an excellent name for a financial website!
I think part of the problem has been the loss of manufacturing. If you take out “making” things, all you have left are government jobs, education(not exactly 100% government, though close), service jobs and finance. Medicine comes under service jobs, sort of. All of them are “consumption” jobs. Nobody is making anything – the only thing that seems to be up is import levels. There’s a limit to what you have to spend if you have no income coming in – and that’s where we seem to be. There’s a wide disparity between high and low incomes, because the high income people are the ones who are in finance, medicine and government, and the low income jobs are the service jobs. I forgot legal – those guys get all kinds of bucks and absolutely produce nothing. It was manufacturing that produced the middle class. Now the middle class will be our computer techs. But if we still have to get the parts for our computers from other countries – there we are again! just like oil – totally dependent. And it’s not because we can’t do it – it’s because government gets in the way.
So…when they get finished, what will be left? no manufacturing. Service jobs and finance jobs … high paying, highly taxed until they only a little more to live on than the service jobs. We’ll be all equal – equally poor – because with no bucks to spare, the high paying folks won’t have enough money to pay the service jobs.
Or something like that. Not good in any case…
Consumer confidence always holds sway over the market. I don’t have much. If asked, I don’t think I could be a number on it because the politics of the day ebbs and flows with it. Book posted an article from JAWA (muslims-Chicago-farm) today. I had already read the article and went through several other sources reading the comment section (paraticularly from Chicago). PO’d doesn’t cover it. I think as long as we do not feel political safe, we cannot feel economical safe or safe as possible.
The loss of products (Made in the USA) began in the 70’s. I remember, my grandmother commenting to me in the 80’s that she would not buy any clothing not made in the USA, I told her, Nana, you will be shopping naked if you continue to wait. Everything has been outsourced for years, which made us the ultimate consumers of cheap merchandise. Now, we’re going to pay the piper. The worst part is that no one is looking to make a correction in the policy. Instead, we have foreign manufacturers building plants or buying empty plants and hiring (a few). There has been talk of selling the Pa. Turnpike to a foreign country. There’s all kinds of ways to sell your soul to the devil.
When I was a kid, we had a savings program through a local bank. It was kind of like ‘green stamps’ program supermarkets once offered. Anyway, stamps were 10 cents and you bought them from the school was you had an extra dime or two. When you accumulated $10 you took your book of stamps to the bank and they gave you a real passbook and you had your first official bank account. I remember, with such pride and ownership that bank book. I always thought that bringing back that program years ago would have instilled in a generation what it takes to earn a dime or a dollar. Instead, they ‘charged’ everything to the future. The future is due and payable now.
just a snip from the WSJ…just another $5 billion
U.S. regulators have seized or threatened at least 27 banks that got capital infusions from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, including some lenders government officials knew were troubled when they awarded the money.
The troubles put taxpayers at risk of losing as much as $5.1 billion invested in the banks since TARP was launched in October 2008. For example, Friday’s three bank failures, increasing the 2009 total to 123, included a unit of Pacific Coast National Bancorp, a San Clemente, Calif., bank that sold $4.1 million of preferred shares to the Treasury Department in January.
A comment on Book’s post:
> These politicians don’t quite understand their own principles, they want to be liked, and they cave, over and over again, in perpetual search of the perfect compromise with an implacable opponent.
I tend to agree, Book, but then I run across this implacable fact: Dede Scozzafava, the Republican who withdrew from the New York race, then endorsed the Democrat. It is hard to explain how a Republican who merely “doesn’t quite understand his or her own principles” would go so far as to endorse the Democrat. In cases such as these – and in cases where these Republicans viciously attack a fellow Republican – Sarah Palin – the analysis just doesn’t seem to capture the entire picture.
The only innocent analysis I can draw up is that these people were never conservative, but found ready listeners within the GOP establishment, and so they *ran* as Republicans because it was convenient. But when push came to shove, because they are not at all conservative, they went home… to the Democrat side. I believe if conservatives do begin to exert influence – finally! – over the national GOP, we will see many more Dede Scozzafavas. They will claim that “the Republican party has turned small tent and nasty and vicious”. They will move over to the Democrats.
But the truth is, it is where they really have been all along.
suek and sadie, many posts above…
On the question of the loss of manufacturing jobs… throughout much of the last five centuries of trade, I think there has always been a place for “the middleman”. He (or she) is skilled at getting the resources or products transported from where they are produced to where they can be sold at value. It’s always been a service job. He doesn’t actually produce or manufacture anything. I think we have a *lot* of “middleman” jobs in our country right now.
Also, it is possible for many of us to sell our expertise to each other. The lawyer hires the plumber, the plumber hires the roofer, the roofer hires the lawyer. We trade value for value because we’ve become so specialized. How many “jacks of all trades” do any of you know? There aren’t many jacks of all trades out there, it seems to me. We’re all too busy within our narrow area of interest. Maybe this kind of intense specialization does work?
I think we’ve put up regulatory barriers that prevent us from being able to create new manufacturing bases within America. How could it be consistently cheaper to produce every product overseas and pay the costs of shipping it here for distribution? Surely (it seems to me) there must be some set of products that are cheaper to produce and sell here than to have them shipped here. But I could be wrong.
Of interest to me was Sadie’s comment in #8 from “Mr A”:
> He did not say what percentage he held and said that it was a terrible financial decision to go off the gold standard years ago.
When you go off of a stable currency that had been based on a precious metal, you then have a floating currency that can be endlessly manipulated. This happened to us with Breton Woods (?) by Nixon on about 1972. Given the incredible inflation that the dollar has experienced since then – does anyone have any comparative numbers about the 40 years prior to ‘72, and the almost 40 years since? Would that be the right comparison period? I know we went partially off the gold standard long before ‘72, but in ‘72 (more or less) we went *completely* off of it.
The ability to manipulate the value of currency is real power. When it was based on precious metals, that manipulative ability was at least somewhat limited. These days, it is wide open.
Mike regarding post #17 – I think it’s called Charles Johnsonitis.
Way back in the day when I was in college I was a part of College Republicans. This was in NY so the caliber of Republicans in office wasn’t very high, but at least they weren’t Democrats. The chairman of this club boasted that he had gotten into the college by lying on the admission form. That wasn’t the worst of his actions or attitudes and I came away with the opinion that there are people that wish to go into politics for politics sake and they don’t care which party they are with , it is merely the vehicle to get them to power.
A good place, in my opinion, to find understandable information about finance is the web site http://marketplace.publicradio.org/ Check the section called The Whiteboard. Yes, I know they are affiliated with NPR, but think how open minded you’ll appear to your liberal friends. My 2 cents – our loss of manufacturing jobs (and small farms) is directly attributable to cheap oil. Think of the pain involved if fuels prices rose to the point where we could no longer import goods cheaper than making them ourselves, not to mention retooling and startup costs. It’s a bad situation either way. I suppose the falling dollar could have the same effect – we may find out soon.
Jose…
I agree that cheap oil was a contributing factor, but I’d attribute it more to the cheap labor in other countries. Not so much the cheap labor in other countries, actually, but the expensive labor here. The labor unions succeeded in pricing themselves out of the market. And oil would be even cheaper if we were producing it _here_.
So…we won WWII and helped Japan rebuild her industry. All new factories, all new equipment – while we still continued with our old factories and old equipment. Maybe the upshot will be that if we end up having to rebuild, we’ll modernize and Japan will have the old stuff! Not they produce much of the stuff – that falls to the countries that still have basically slave labor. Even there, the cost of labor is increasing, and manufacturers there are outsourcing (from China, yet!) to places like Vietnam where labor is even cheaper. Keep this up and the whole world will have work! Maybe we really _can_ defeat poverty! However, the golden goose is slated for the oven, so there will be no more golden eggs. The US will go down, and so will everybody else. You talk about _stupidity_!!
I’ll check out the link – I’m not proud – I’ll take what I can learn from anywhere – even PBS!
By the way…they’re on a fundraising drive…they were offering the complete collection of Victor Borge DVDs the other night – for a mere $150. The lowest membership rates they’d had in years! (so they said!) With a “public” that can afford that kind of kumshaw, why are we giving them public funding?? (Though I was sorely tempted. Victor Borge was truly unique. Fortunately, it’s all available on ebay!)
Oh yeah…about labor unions… Did you see this one?
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/16/seiu-thugs-vs-the-boy-scouts/
You see…if the cities have to cut their spending, and that results in _union_ members losing their jobs, you can’t be allowed to get the citizens together to do the work voluntarily – without pay. Everybody has to have a job. No volunteering allowed. Sort of puts a crimp in Obama’s “every citizen has to volunteer” program, doesn’t it? It also might say that as long as a job hasn’t been created, you can have volunteers, but if there’s a job you are not permitted to end it. Sort of like ACORN suing the government…they had their entitlements, so Congress is not permitted to end them. No programs that involve government spending may be permitted to end.
Remember the old Soviet joke? “We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us”. Guess where we’re headed!
suek
Once you are finished with Jose’s link, stayed put and catch this one. I listened to the interview yesterday, but there is a written summary. Those three words, we don’t want to hear – more bad news. I got a ear full of ‘private equity’. I should paraphrase and say private inequity.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120391729
Mike Devx
Wish I could answer that question about pre 1972 or after. I only understand that there was extreme hyper inflation in the 70’s. If you recall, home prices were doubling left and right. CD’s were paying 10% and upwards towards 16%. The dollar should have been devalued 10% at the time, but that was never going to happen.
I was thinking about all the posts and had another thought … France, for many years ( (I don’t know if it’s still a law) would not allow radio to broadcast more than 40% in English, supposedly to protect the French language. At the time, I thought it rather anti-English and some Euro-protectionism. China and Saudi hold and manipulate US dollars. I think we have to apply the same ratio-nal thinking to import/export. The Saudis have bought entire departments at Harvard to begin with like “Chair of Islamic Studies’. Nevermind, that I think Harvard is whore for selling their body – it should be illegal and that we need to initiate the France model to how many dollars come in/out and the same percentage must be applied to all goods.
h/t Weasel Zippers and with the question of the century…
You will recall that, shortly before the end of the 2008 political campaign, the White House announced a threat to the entire financial system and called on Congress to enact emergency spending powers. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was enacted on October 3, 2008.
Just eighteen days earlier an event occurred that slid under the radar screen of virtually the entire mainstream media. On Thursday, September 15, 2008, at approximately 11 A.M., the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the nation, amounting to $550 billion dollars. It occurred within an hour or two. The money was removed electronically.
It has never been made public which accounts were affected, nor where the withdrawn funds were sent. If we knew those facts, we would know who launched an attack on the United States that has been more devastating than any in our history.
Read the rest here
suek
Smith & Wesson is diversifying and going to build barriers. Betcha NYC is gonna need most of them.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article6917828.ece
Read this and tell me that he’s not a mole:
http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/2009/11/capitulating-to-iran.html
When incompetence is consistent and ongoing, you _have_ to wonder if there isn’t malicious intent. That’s the way I am beginning to feel about the GOP, including McCain.
It’s not incompetence, it’s the goal of the IAEA/el baradei to advance islamic superiority.
My 2 cents – our loss of manufacturing jobs (and small farms) is directly attributable to cheap oil. Think of the pain involved if fuels prices rose to the point where we could no longer import goods cheaper than making them ourselves, not to mention retooling and startup costs.- Jose
Jose, you’re going to have to walk me through that one.
I would say four things caused the loss of manufacturing jobs.
1. Strong dollar, which made our exports expensive relative to other countries.
2. High wages. This also made the differential between imported and exported goods, though we relied on high productivity through our technological advantage to offset. Productivity is the key. Any increase in wages without an increase in productivity is inflationary.
3. Regulation and taxes. We regulated several industries out of this country, and high corporate taxes prevent companies from locating here.
4. Free trade. Most countries use tariffs to maintain jobs that otherwise would leave a country.
I was working for a construction manufacturing firm that shipped nearly 40% of it’s equipment to Europe. The company built one plant in Italy, one in England and were planning one in the eastern Europe (relatively cheap wages). The decision was the cost of shipping, part of which was due to high energy prices.
They are continuing to build a plant in China to service Asia. The engineering department was required to send work to India, even while they were laying off engineers here. There were two reasons for this- they had a contract that required a certain amount of jobs, and Indian engineers work cheaper than American engineers.
Senator Graham: Would OBL be mirandized if captured tomorrow?
Eric Holder: (under his breath and scribbling notes, huh? – what kind of question is that to spring on me).
Sadie: OMG, he’s the AG!!
Warning:
6 minutes and wear a helmet to keep your head protected while it bangs the closest wall.
http://www.breitbart.tv/senator-presses-holder-would-osama-bin-laden-be-mirandized/
On numerous blogs when discussing OBL and the fact that Bush “failed” to capture him, I’ve asked “what would you do with him if we caught him?” The answer – “Bring him to justice”. “How”… Which court? What proof? What translation of his “confession”? What would you do then – if he was found guilty? would you sentence him to die? give him life imprisonment? Where? which prison?
Personally, I think he may be dead. Maybe not – but had I been Bush, I wouldn’t have said a word about it if I found out he had been killed. We do _not_ want to create a martyr. And they don’t want to admit the great leader is dead – if he is – so there’s a grand conspiracy that I suspect only time will expose.
“Just eighteen days earlier an event occurred that slid under the radar screen of virtually the entire mainstream media. On Thursday, September 15, 2008, at approximately 11 A.M., the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw down of money market accounts in the nation, amounting to $550 billion dollars. It occurred within an hour or two. The money was removed electronically.”- Sadie
It’s my understanding this occured the day after Lehman bankruptcy was announced and when on of the faster growing Money Market Funds announced NAV of .97, called ”breaking the buck” which started a run.
It’s also my understanding it occured over 3 days when the government stepped in.
Of course the funds would have been transferred electronically.
If I had funds at risk in a MMF, I probably would have been trying to withdraw it myself.
I’m sure regulators know who withdrew the funds.
“I’m sure regulators know who withdrew the funds”.
They may or may not. I don’t have a world of confidence in them. The SEC let Madoff run a ponzi scheme for 20 years. I am sure I’ll be a more decrepit old lady then I am now if I ever see the list.