What is the famous line that politicians always use as they try to convince you to go against your better judgment and fall for their political rhetoric? "But it's different this time," they tell us.
Of course, every time is a little different, but it's not that much different.
Interestingly enough, the business cycles are generally pretty similar, and although this time the real estate bubble burst, which took out the banking sector had a little more going for it on the downward trend, it is essentially recovering very similarly.
What concerns me is that the stock market appears to be showing us a false recovery, during a perceived jobless economic expansion.
What bothers me is that we have politicians which use crisis and chaos to control the situation to force their political agendas without regard to the actual crisis or solving of the problem.
Oh sure, they enlist the ideas and thoughts of think tanks, as long as they share their political views, but the reality is they don't care, they have their little program, an agenda to run.
Next time you hear someone in the mass media, especially if it is a politician trying to explain to you how it's different this time, a word of advice; don't listen to them.
Rather, look between the lines of their purported speech, and try to figure out which agenda they are trying to move and why.
This is how you can catch them in their old rhetorical lie.
In fact, when someone says this; even the fact that they are saying that it is different, proves that isn't, because every single crisis that has ever come before always has people standing up and telling us this same line.
And that happens every time, proving that there is no difference.
You see that point? Please consider it all.