Palliative Care

Is it surprising that there have been less people jumping out of Wall Street windows than in 1929? Of course margin requirements are more substantial. If you get desperate enough, you have to go to a loan shark who will gladly fit you with cement shoes if you decide to take a walk. Prolepsis means anticipating the answer to a question before it's asked. Daniel Kahneman the Nobel Prize winning economist went to Switzerland to get the best in palliative care (ie euthanasia). Even though was functioning at age 90, he decided to control his inevitable decline (he suffered from mental lapses and kidney ailments) by ending it. It is not if but when. Stop the world, I want to get off. The current regime throws out a new atrocity before one has a chance to respond to the last. What to do when you know you're going to spend the rest of your life dodging bullets?