Things That Go Blog in the Night

OK, just a quickie today:

Over and over, we're told of the current financial crisis, "No one could have seen it coming."

I disagree. The 2,000 year-old Tao Te Ching, by Lao-Tzu says:

When rich speculators prosper
While farmers lose their land;
when government officials spend money
on weapons instead of cures;
when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible
while the poor have nowhere to turn-
all this is robbery and chaos.
It is not in keeping with the Tao.

Seems to me that someone — anyone — could have seen this coming.

One of my first posts on this site was a riff on hearing an NPR announcer appear to say that the "Tao was off 16 points in heavy trading". I'm back to the Tao and finances again.