The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist

This quote (the one the title of this post is taken from) is in the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects, written by Christopher McQuarrie. In it, Verbal Kint explains the story of Keyser Söze to the cop:

"He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist..."

But the original one ... read on

There was no credit crisis...
No huge layoffs at financial institutions...
No Bear Stern...
No more Level III assets to be priced...
No inflation according to good caring government...
Gas price is down at the pumps in April - trust CPI...
Good Tzar will save us... ( mostly rich pricks - they need to be saved - they ARE the government )
What recession?
What Bear market?
Give me your money sucker...
Relax, bend over and take it... you got no choice...
Keep reading your "Social" Security, Annuity Pension statements - at least you are getting great entertainment value..
Personal Income went up - and disappeared immediately to buy food to go back into the slave world of cubes and belts.
No commodities prices are too expensive for companies - you (consumer) will take it in the ... like a man... or a woman... but WILL take it - oh Great and Patient Americans - complacent and politically correct as it just possible to be...


And market is out of the woods and will go up indefinitely and it is not just a tradable bounce like it happened ALWAYS BEFORE, time and again, after bubble burst and there will be no stagnant market... for years... not that Bush cares...or anyone as a matter of fact - INCLUDING YOU...