Written by Lawrence Brown   

If "The Robber Baron Crisis" of 2008 had

been called that--which is the truth--instead of

"The Financial Crisis",the Bad Guys on Wall Street

and in Congress wouldn't have pulled it off

and crippled America for 5 years.

But by getting all major media and Wall Street's

Washington lackeys to call it "The Financial Crisis"

they successfully put over the illusion that it

was somehow an Act Of God--so "we'll just

have to live with it."

After all,this wasn't just A "Financial Crisis".

It was THE "Financial Crisis".

This Brand New Scam was so beyond the

understanding of mere mortals that no one even

noticed that we had never even heard the PHRASE

" Financial Crisis" before. Never.

(Right now the Lie Phrases are "Fiscal Cliff"

and "Debt Ceiling"...get to that in a minute.)

To conclude 2008, while we were being force-fed

a fake-as-The-Wizard-Of-Oz "Financial Crisis"

here was the irrefutable truth of 2008:

1. The same amount of money still existed.

2. The same amount of people still existed.

3. The same amount of buying desire still existed.

4. The same amount of selling desire still existed.

Unfortunately,the same amount of

ignorance about MONEY still existed in the

minds of 99.9% of Americans. ( I suggested

to Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren last 4th

of July that American schools K-12 should

all have a class called "Money 101" so that

18 years from now we won't have yet another

generation that's 1000X dumber than Wall Street

is about money. She said, "Larry,I've been telling

people that for years and no one will listen to me."

(Well,you're the smartest person in Congress now,

Senator. Time to knock some heads together.You

pulled off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

against all odds all by your lonesome; Money 101 should

be a walk in the park for you.)

"Fiscal Cliff"? The "fisc" in the word fiscal

meant the King of England's "purse". And he had more money

than anyone;which brings us to the point here:

if this s o v a g u e "Fiscal Cliff" is really terrible

and really real,how come not one politicial of either

party who won or lost on November 6th--

ever mentioned it?

And the "Debt Ceiling" matters because we

owe many TRILLIONS of dollars? Well,why should

we think owing say $14 Trillion is a problem when


NO ONE has ever told us WHAT the net worth

of America is and what our Total Cash Balance

is at the ATM?

Let's get real; when you have 5000 Hydrogen Bombs,

pretending you have to fret over some imaginary

"Debt Ceiling" is nothing more than being

politely gracious to all other countries.

As new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayers said

last week about accomplishing big complex

things "You have to ruthlessly prioritize."(She's

the genius who made GOOGLE what it is,beginning

as employee # 20,so I'd listen to this lady.)

Marissa reminded me of something my great

mentor Carl Ally--one of maybe 5 True

Geniuses on Madison Avenue in the last

Century--said to me once when I was

complaining that I needed much more

office space and many more employees

at my just-started ad agency. "Larry,

all you NEED is a little MOISTURE to

keep you alive.Everything else is gravy."

Carl learned this as a fighter pilot

in Korea; and when he returned he started

a genius ad agency which could only get

tiny-budget accounts no one ever heard of.

Two of those were VOLVO and

FEDERAL EXPRESS.

Moral: Money is a matter of opinion;

once Food,Clothing and Shelter are

covered.

If Congress understood this, they could

do a lot with very little.

Apple is now the biggest company in

the entire world, and it was started by a college

dropout kid who had nothing but $25, the use

of his parents garage,a little LSD and a really

big idea or two.

Some hippie.

Even dead he's more admired than

anyone in America.