RENT A WHITE GUY ... WALL STREET STYLE

Oh, how the tables have turned. Check out this article on Chinese business practices in The Atlantic. We all know that Wall Street has turned itself into a empty but glitzy casino that no longer produces anything. But renting white guys in ties as show pieces in China is a little like NASCAR renting hot women. They're bit players in a circus sideshow.

The article is actually kind of funny ... until you realize that using white guys as props is really an indicator of what's happening to the American Empire. Unfortunately the new face of America's Empire is increasingly dominated by sideshow circus freaks (in a tie, of course) who aren't interest in creating anything of value. And that includes Wall Street.

- Mark