Capitalism under attack © fintag

News comments:
During the G20 riots (what riots? It was a party!) the police were organised, terrifying and out of control. Capitalism was being attacked and the state pulled out all its weapons. The news coverage went on for days and even today is still being referenced as the day the world was saved. But alas it was nothing of the sort. It was posturing by the state telling the little people that governments are too big to rock.

Yesterday on my way home on the bus, I saw some students bemoaning that the state was no longer going to fund their pub crawling lifestyle (dailymail) (enjoy it while it lasts). The G20 type police were not to be seen and a few windows were broken and lots of pictures were uploaded to flickr and facebook. Twitter had fun and the media pretty much ignored it (telegraph).

Although none of us ever condone violence (which is why thousands of onlookers from AP, reuters et al were quite happy to earn a living from the vandalism that was occurring in front of their eyes) but sometimes this is the only way governments listen. I expect we shall see a few more protests for in times of falling income and lifestyle, the anger has to be taken out somewhere.

But that is dull and illogical.

Today we are long currency pairs, oil and copper. We are short apples, pears and influenza.