alice in wonderland & the dow

As far as I'm concerned official statistics released by the USA are no longer credible. (See shadowstats.com)

This of course has serious implications for the Dow.

These quotes from Alice in Wonderland make as much sense as a lot of the "information" we are being told right now about the USA economy and its financial system.

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The Duchess: Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
Alice: I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

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March Hare: …Then you should say what you mean.
Alice: I do; at least - at least I mean what I say -- that's the same thing, you know.
Hatter: Not the same thing a bit! Why, you might just as well say that, 'I see what I eat' is the same as 'I eat what I see'!
March Hare: You might just as well say, that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!
The Dormouse: You might just as well say, that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!

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Alice: What a funny watch! It tells the day of the month, and it doesn't tell what o'clock it is!
The Hatter: Why should it? Does your watch tell you what year it is?
Alice: Of course not, but that's because it stays the same year for such a long time together.
The Hatter: …which is just the case with mine.

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The Duchess: You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.
Alice: Perhaps it hasn't one.
The Duchess: Tut, tut, child! Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

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The Dormouse: You've got no right to grow here.
Alice: Don't talk nonsense. You know you're growing too.
The Dormouse: Yes, but I grow at a reasonable pace, not in that ridiculous fashion.

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Alice: I didn't know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.
The Duchess: You don't know much; and that's a fact.

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Alice: But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you! I'm a -- I'm a --
The Pigeon: Well! WHAT are you? I can see you're trying to invent something!
Alice: I -- I'm a little girl.
The Pigeon: A likely story indeed! I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never ONE with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!

Quotes obtained from http://quotations.about.com/od/moretypes/a/alice4.htm