To all of MMB readers,Sometimes it's about bad Benjamins, and soemtimes it's just bad to be without Money in general, but right now I'm sure you're with me and going through total financial withdrawal let’s hope they can fix the 100 dollar bills in less than a hundred years, and that MMB can be fixed as well (that is meant in the way of getting better and not being neutered, but that is of course MMB’s choice).MMB is missing the market reaction to Washington’s inability to do anything about one thing without dragging in another. It’s like your cat going out to pee and coming back with a bird in its mouth. And yes, that’s how politics is done. To quote from Night Court “You scratch my back, and I’ll shave yours”. Nancy Pelosi got a whoopin’ in November and now she’s getting waxed in December! It used to just be uncomfortable to be her, now it’s just plain ugly to be her. Well, wait – maybe it just got uglier.As for macro econ news, gold has begun to drop in price from ridonculous to just what is a little less than that: kinda ridonculous. Perhaps it is in response to the SEC investigations, the fact that Citigroup is now not too big to fail, but too interwoven to fail, and that Fannie and Freddie are in talks with the government on a possible me9nage a trios. Look out, it’s only you the taxpayer that will get screwed on this deal.To the plain (and Nancy Pelosi will do)Known as sad reader nzsvz9