International Finance

Money has traffic rules, that cannot be broken. Men who tried died mysteriously. Others ended up in a P. Diddy situation. 

Poor people call it money. Men who created and control it use a subdued name. They call it international finance. Money is called different names in different countries and situations but all of them use the same colours you see on traffic lights:

GREEN: means go

AMBER: means caution

RED: means stop right there

These are not traffic lights, they are the right of way international finance uses to move the product smoothly and safely on its way to the next stop sign. International finance does not need a common language although England and its former colonies think English is the banking lingua franca. In fact, despite the volume of guess work (trading) the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange handle, America and Britain do not know what is happening in international finance because they speak one language.

International finance is a gentleman’s nod, hand shake and eye contact that Tokyo, New York, Dubai, Stockholm, Toronto, Beijing, Delhi and Washington D.C. agree, to honour and preserve underground tunnels, fly-overs, canals, country roads, one way streets, defunct railways and highways that transport the product: money. There’s only one exception, the U.S.A.

I guess the new dispensation thinks it can overlook the gentleman’s agreement because it will be ruled by ‘a genius’ and a de facto vice president that dances like a kangaroo. 

Nonqaba waka Msimang

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