Reality Has Become The Perception

In this scene from "Wall Street" Gordon Gekko reminds us that most of what we see in he financial world is an illusion. The perception has become reality. "I create nothing; I OWN."

I believe what we are witnessing in this historic time is that reality eventually wins. The problem, however, is that when reality IS the perception, the let-down is even greater than the original ruse. Why? Because we watch those that created the "reality" crumble under the perception that they have failed.

Calls for the bottom are overly optimistic. The reality here is that... sometimes, Reality Bites.