Yes, the bold and not so beautiful perform great acrobatic feats of apparent weightlessness; somersaulting and spinning in the air, always knowing that the great rump of soft, spongy stability, that trampoline spring of government orders and contracts or direct bailouts, of pension fund investments or mums & dads investors who will be \"financially advised\" like sheep into a pen, or retired home owners who can be persuaded to \"put that equity to work\", will always be there to cushion their fall. But the trampoline has benn so much used and abused by endless taking out without ever putting back, of belt tightening and cornering markets and fooling all the people all the time - until the well is dry, the springs are rusted and broken and the cushion is threadbare - and now it\'s crunch time. They have got so big and they will fall so hard. I once saw a placcard held by a homeless person across the road from Wall St during the 1987 warning treamour. It had only one word - \"JUMP\".

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