I know of someone who would have understood the stock market these past few weeks.

I don’t mean The Great American Taxpayer Robbery by the Boardroom Bandits. No one

I know can understand that 700 billion Main Street bailout of Wall Street. Is there any other word than “hypocrisy” when fat-cats want to privatize profits but socialize losses? By the way, did you know that every child born into the world begins life saddled with a $175,000 debt? And that was before the 1 trillion hijacking of Main Street by Wall Street.

I do mean the dizzying up/down of stocks.

The person who would have understood this is the Apostle Paul. For Paul pioneered a new form of accounting: everything that had traditionally been counted as “gain” was suddenly turned upside down and revealed to be a “loss.”

All those bro…