“Groucho Marx made a small fortune in vaudeville and then lost it all in the stock market crash of 1929. His sense of humor was no help to him then. One day in the early 1930s he was sitting in a bar with his friend Morrie, and Morrie was trying to console him.”

“Yes,” Morrie told Groucho, “we’ve lost a lot of money and it hurts, but we’ve still got our health and our lives ahead of us, and some people don’t even have that. Take my cousin Fred. He’s much worse off than we are but he’s pressing on as best he can. Fred lost his leg in a carriage accident when he was 5. His parents were killed in a tenement fire when he was 12. His wife ran off with his best friend when he was 27. And then he had diabetes at 29.”

“Groucho was not to be consoled; he had lost too much money in the crash. He snarled back at Morrie: “Diabetes at 29? That’s nothing. I had Radio at 104.”

 ~ Quoted in “There are no markets anymore, just interventions by Chris Powell

By Catherine Austin Fitts

The equity bull market continues to climb the wall of worry. With the Fed meeting less than a month away, eyes are increasingly on what happens next to interest rates and the impact in the fixed income markets.  The US Dollar Index is still strong over that 100 line.

Here are the Friday charts:Set One, Set Two, Set Three, Set Four