It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world.

I had to add that extra mad, because the world is just that much more mad than it was when the movie was released. One more mad probably isn't enough.

So the stock market goes up, and it's the highest it's been since I've had any involvement.

The Fed hands another 600 million to the banks. So ... stocks go up.

Is that because they think the banks are suddenly going to start loaning money? At lower rates?

Or that the banks will have so much cash they can....hey, buy stocks! Or something equally dubious and duplicitous.

Sorry, don't much like banks these days.