Accustomed as Wall Street investors and bankers are to attention, they are slow to catch on when they are being ignored. They are being ignored right now by the individuals who want to crash the debt ceiling for some reason. Most of them just don't know it yet. Perversely, the individuals who want to crash the debt ceiling and destroy U.S. full faith and credit are encouraged by Wall Street not noticing that these individuals are ignoring Wall Street. See Jesse Eisinger, "DealBook / Complacency on Wall Street Could Be Worse Than a Panic" p. B8, col. 1 (New York Times Nat'l ed., Thursday, October 10, 2013).
Even the ones on Wall Street who are aware that they are being ignored by the terrorists of the debt ceiling, are slow to realize that their money just isn't enough to persuade the terrorists any longer. See "Business Groups See Loss of Sway Over House G.O.P. / A Growing Frustration / Leaders Mull Financing Primary Challenges to the Tea Party" p. A1, col. 6 (New York Times Nat'l ed., Thursday, October 10, 2013).
For the clues about whose money is more attractive to the terrorists now, see this article published in Sunday's print edition of The New York Times and posted online on October 5, 2013: Sheryl Gay Stolberg & Mike McIntire, "A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning" p. A1, col. 2 (New York Times Nat'l ed., Sunday, October 6, 2013) ("Groups like Tea Party Patriots, Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks are all immersed in the fight, as is Club for Growth, a business-backed nonprofit organization. Some, like Generation Opportunity and Young Americans for Liberty, both aimed at young adults, are upstarts. Heritage Action is new, too, founded in 2010 to advance the policy prescriptions of its sister group, the Heritage Foundation. The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort.").
Can I see a show of hands how many people thought even once in the last 5 years that the investors and bankers who inhabit Wall Street might someday find it in their interest to save us?
I thought so.
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