We discuss the mass lobotomy that is the knitting needle of market manipulation to the brain; Ben Bernanke’s Pepto Bismol talk as simulated fearlessness and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) like wearing thirty seat belts. In the second half, Max talks to Wolf Richter of TestosteronePit.com, about the turmoil in the Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) market and about private equity and hedge funds buying up properties only to take those properties off the ‘for sale’ list and put them on the ‘to rent’ list.