We don't seem to hear much out of Heraldress Bachmann.

She must be hard at work within the bowels of Moonbase Zebra. Or perhaps her bowels are Moonbase Zebra; it's hard to tell when you're knee deep in conservative effluvia.

She is probably ghostwriting for The Politico as a visiting scholar concerned with practical applications of obstreperous misinterpretation theory: "Not only are we not members of the reality based community; we're so far beyond the end of history, we're making it up as we go along! We're practically an Olaf Stapledon novel!"

Over at the Rolling Stone, we find this :

Inside The Great American Bubble Machine
Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression

And over at Bloomberg, we find this :

Goldman Trading-Code Investment Put at Risk by Theft (Update3)

I'm pretty sure Rule 1 for thieves is something like "Don't steal from each other"; but anyway, it's nice to know they are apparently eating other...instead of the rest of us.

So: anyone out there up for a New Economy? It sure looks like, one way (the easy way) or another (the less-easy one) we're going to get it. I just hope we get it somewhere other than where the sun can't shine.