The similarities in Western Medicine and the Financial Markets.

By Marcus Salek, Prague

Western Medicine creates blood tests and identifies what are normal healthy values. Then Western Medicine creates drugs to alter our blood test readings to make us think that we are healthy again without actually identifying what is causing the problem. The end result is the consumer must pour more money into maintaining the illusion of health by taking drugs which results in big profits for the drug companies and less health for the consumer which is called sickness.

Western Financial Markets create a list of economic indicators which tell us how well our economy is doing. If the numbers change to levels the markets declare are unacceptable, the government manipulates the market to get the readings it desires without actually solving the problem. The end result is the investor pours more money into the market thinking he will make more money which results in more profits for the investment banks and brokers and less value for the consumers money which is called inflation.

This is called the illusion of well being or as P.T. Barnum (1810 – 1891)" once said, "There's a sucker born every minute"