> However even ***living off loans*** secured with stocks and options The point is that: *that's not what they do*. They always have enough *currency* lying around, in various forms, to fund their lifestyles. The access to liquidity implies the ability to *continue* making bets, and stacking ventures on top of each-other, like an never-ending ponzi scheme. All it takes are a few "white supremacists", organizing together, and checkmating 'em. What a wild time to be alive. **\*edit:** I don't think this is even remotely-over. Nobody's won, yet, and to get complacent will mean certain-failure. However, it's funny to watch them get caught with their pants down, so horribly. Those pants were so far-down they weren't even in the same room; in fact, they're on the moon, now.