that. But you mentioned 401Ks. I mean, is that, again, because so much millions, tens of millions of Americans have their savings in the stock market, and the stock market's been held up for all this time. I mean, is that in your view one way in which the forces of populism could be unleashed? What is a confidence game? A confidence game is some sort of a usually financial arrangement that is based on confidence of the participants in the soundness of this arrangement, but is financially and economically unsound in reality. Right? Okay. So if we have a financial system and a monetary system and an economic system that is unsound fundamentally, but is sustained through confidence of the participants, then we are in a confidence game, like Bernie Madoff's confidence game. So Bernie Madoff's clients thought they were rich for a couple of decades because they got a statement that showed some numbers on it. Right? And they thought they were rich and they lived like they were rich. And then (69/96)
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