Jim’s comment reminds me…
Free Market is the name of the North American Fertility Goddess. She beguiles many with her promises of new and unimaginable pleasures. She is very vain, and regularly demands to be worshiped with human sacrifice.
Tags: Alan Greenspan, Ayn Rand, economics, free market

Unfortunately, now I have a mental image of a NAFG looking an awful lot like Colleen’s Emily… but with an evil grin.
About the cartoon / talking about religion…
The parallels between Lehman (spectacular bankruptcy 2008) & Merrill (taken over to avoid a spectacular bankruptcy) and the “golden calf” ( Exodus ) are unbelievable!