Luxury retailers are smiling. So are the owners of high-end restaurants, sellers of upscale cars, vacation planners, financial advisors, and personal coaches. For them and their customers and clients the recession is over. The recovery is now full speed.
The crushing of dissent, the official identification of dissenters, the vast expansion of federal power, and the hyper-arming of local authorities. We are, at this moment, in a savagely perilous place.