Falls right in line with what I’ve been thinking - I’m not a hedge fund manager but I once stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
I think we are going to wake up one morning and find that so much of what we take for granted has just vanished - just like it did for Madoff’s victims.
When that happens pitchforks will be in extremely short supply and the fact that so many people will have had to walk to Washington will only make them all the angrier.
We have an infrastucture and material wealth that is not easy to destroy or take away. As you imply, we have a weakness concerning energy. However, I believe that if we were cut off from the rest of the world in that area, we could compensate with our knowledge and resources faster than they could.