Financial Distress Management

[factbat] — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:13:59 +0000

This country and much of the world has manifest a financial market, and subsequently now entire economies, that engage in the practice of investing in the next financial downturn and the disasters, both anthropogenic and natural, that cause them. There are literally hundreds of millions of people who essentially want bad things to happen across the planet because it could depreciate the stock or stocks they are betting will lose money. Regardless of the fact that it sometimes affects entire countries of people, and often thousands, even millions, die of common maladies or starvation and diseases which are completely avoidable in this day and age.

While the average weekend investor does not culpably create any type of actual liability, the fact is that many of the portfolios leveraging the accounts of millions of American investors are held in companies that do understand the nature of the latest outsourced put options just waiting, or even hoping that some premeditated, and often violent, event will occur in whatever country has the greatest affect on the said stock. While this practice can be deemed morally and ethically wrong, the fact is that even many of the stocks that are invested in largely for their stability and growth margin are often connected, either directly or indirectly, to companies that exploit criminal governments which abuse and enslave their workforce, or have no compunction when it comes to poisoning the planet and ignoring environmental concerns.

The Stock Market could certainly be considered something like a craps game that is played with peoples lives. One can play the “come” or “don’t come”, “pass” or “don’t pass”. However, the field is real, and those who bet on the hard way either give it or take it and it is many times for keeps.

Having said that, the blood lust evident in these activities brings to light the reality that there are certainly those most sinister of all investors…one’s who invest in disasters they intend to assist or manipulate into existence. The fact is that Wall Street creates a bevy of opportunities to profit from the depravity, degradation and destruction of the world that is turning around us all. While regulation and investigation may attempt some pretension of credibility, the fact is that there is no substitute for morally and ethically minded investors, and there is not likely any financial or business campus on the planet that truly teaches proper ethics. The world being created by the financial educators and corporate mentors these days insists that real ethics are not profitable.

Markets and Money

Financial Distress Management