The fact, which surely everybody knows and hardly anybody ventures to state, is that the stability of our great banks--and all our banking system which now matters a tittle consists of great banks--is based not on the supply of gold in their vaults, nor on the reserve in the Bank of England, but on the fact that they are too big to fail, too big commercially and far too big politically. If Lloyds, or the London County, or the National Provincial stopped payment, the consequences would far exceed a San Francisco earthquake, a Chicago fire, or any other catastrophe within the memory of man.

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Google knows you better than your own mother. It has a file on you that would make J. Edgar Hoover salivate. And now they're going to hang onto that file and pretty much do whatever they want with it. But don't worry because they haven't done anything scary yet, and they promise not to be evil. Kthxbai.

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