Is there any difference?

James Howard Kunstler: "Bernard Madoff scandal is like discovering that Ben Bernanke is running a meth lab inside the Federal Reserve"

Zounds! Public sentiment toward the accelerating economic fiasco has

shifted, seemingly overnight, from a mood of nauseated amazement to one

of panicked grievance as the United States moves closer to an apparent

comprehensive collapse -- and so ill-timed, wouldn't you know it, to

coincide with the annual rigors of Santa Claus. The tipping point seems to

be the Bernie Madoff $50 billion Ponzi scandal, which represents the

rossest failure of authority and hence legitimacy in finance to date in as

much as Madoff was former chairman of the NASDAQ, for godsake. It's like

ldiscovering Ben Bernanke running a meth lab inside the Federal Reserve.