The other night, I watched Oprah. She was hiding the truth about the American Dream, which is a bad lie that says if you work hard, everything will be fine in the land of the free and the home of the brave. She said that 1 percent of the people in the U.S. now own 40 percent of all the money in the country. She said that if you are not born into that 1 percent today, it is much harder to work your way up. You have to work a lot more hours for a lot less pay, and your extra hours just make the richest 1 percent richer. On the other hand, if you have the right connections, especially if you can join a special group of thieves called "corporate insiders" and know how to play the game of corporate politics, you will go straight to the top. Today, if you are a shareholder, you are part of Oprah's 1 percent because of our horribly corrupt corporate governance system. This system is supported by divisions of corporate attorneys who work for insiders and are paid by Joe Shareholders who don't even know it.
So what can you do if you weren't born into the Johnson & Johnson family and don't have a "old money American dream trust fund" that makes you "richer than God"? The answer is that you have to learn to buy low and sell high, like the robber barons did in the 1800s. I know that the middle class in America is having a hard time, but there are ways to get ahead. First, you need to stop chasing after unrealistic goals. Ignore the get-rich-quick schemes like multilevel marketing, derivatives, and short-selling real estate that people will try to sell you. All of these schemes are backed by a well-known person and make the con artist at the top rich in order to get you to buy in.
Learn to take charge of your financial future and make the market work for you. What should you do? You need to stop thinking like a cow first. Most people in the public base their opinions on what the group has decided is right. You have to stop doing this and act as if the public as a whole is a bunch of pretty stupid cattle going up the chute into the financial slaughterhouse of corporate executives. Right now, the chute is closed because the stock market recently crashed, making stocks cheap. Insiders are buying up stocks while the media is strangely quiet about "stock market rags to riches dreams," which they pushed to get people into the market in 2000 when insiders were selling to the public.
Learn to love the market even when everyone else hates it. The stock market has just crashed, and there's no good news out there. Ever wonder why? The big forces behind Wall Street are the secret buying groups, the insider corporate executives, and the experienced individual investors who are smart enough to know to buy, buy, buy when stock prices are very low and Wall Street's media machine is strangely quiet. There are a lot of really good companies out there with prices that are too low to pass up.
