Q: How do you get out of a mess? A: don't cause one.

His tirade against what capitalism is not, and that what passes for capitalism today is really just socialism for bankers is a must see. The thing I love about Rogers (and Buffet, and Munger and Soros et al) is you can't really argue with success. These are bar none, the most successful investors in the world and they have always said the same thing: All this fed liquidity will end badly.

Still, you say that on CNBC and some twit like Kudlow makes it sound "unAmerican". Hell, maybe it is un-American to let people take responsibility for their own actions and to let market forces do their job after a bunch of knuckleheads juice up the system on artificial stimulus for a few decades.

I'd be shorting the hell out of the markets even from here if 1) I could find a halfway decent re-entry point and 2) I thought US dollars would be worth anything on the other end. But since 1) isn't happening and 2) appears dubious at best I have to be satisfied with not having my net worth being chewed into pulp by a meat-grinder stockmarket each passing day (don't get me wrong, I'm very satisfied with that)

Amazingly, there are still talking heads talking as if the Recession is still hypothetical, avoidable or if not, how mild and soothing it will be and why this a fantastic chance to be buying stocks on the cheap. Tell me this: if "now" is always a great time to be buying stocks and the market is underpriced, how lucky are the bargain-hunting saps who bought Bear Stearns at $30 on friday?

Let the class actions on that one commence, there will be many more to follow. As long as the Fed is acting as if an investment bank going out of business is purely unthinkable there will be much more of this to come, and if Bernanke keeps it up, this will end in a hyperinflation induced flameout of apocalyptic proportions (think James Wesley Rawles' Patriots, which describes a Mad-Max-like post-hyperinflation economic meltdown in the US)