What the heck is going on? The Dow has just had its best weekly performance since March 2000. CNBC is full of whopping and high-fiving. The Obama administration is breathing an audible sigh of relief. And mom and pop investors all across the US are no doubt considering putting more of their savings back into the market.

The luck of one generation is the curse of the next.

It’s a curious symptom of the consensus trance zombifying the American public and its auditors in the media that something like a “recovery” is now deemed to be underway. And, as events compel me to repeat in this space, it begs the question: recovery to what?

“Stone him to death!” No kidding. Dilapidation may be coming back into style. That’s what one of Madoff’s victims proposed in front of the courthouse.

There it is, dear reader… the future of the United States of America. This just in… We have it from our usually unreliable source in Washington that Gideon Gono, now head of the Zimbabwean central bank, has been called in to aid the Obama administration.

Apparently, the horrifying news of negative interest rates does not register with these morons; the bartender went back to talking to the pretty girl at the end of the bar, and the other barfly customers were flipping those little beer-stained cardboard coasters at me saying, ‘Shut up!