Right when Israel Bombed Quana my Stock  Went Up Two Points Baby! High Five for Freedom!Prophet and true teacher of the Free Market, guardian of the Hidden Hand, Larry Kudlow gives us a message: The streets will flood with money and blood. The stock market and the "global investor class" give their approval. "The wartime stock market is saying that things might be better than most people believe."

The U.S. stock market and world equity bourses are important measures of fear, hope, security, and the health of the world’s economy. And while you might not know it from today’s magnified headlines about war, terrorism, higher oil prices, and rising interest rates, the stock market message is one of reasonable hope, confidence, and optimism about the state of the world.

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If freedom, democracy, individual liberty, and economic liberalization are all vital cornerstones of the successful City on the Hill experiment that is the United States, campaigns such as Israel’s only mark an expansion of this freedom. Israel may be a relatively small hill in global terms, but the battle it is waging is incalculably large on the world stage. As Israel inflicts more punishment on Hezbollah, the more Syria and Iran will have their Axis of Evil ears pinned back. This is a huge positive step for democracy and a big potential defeat for totalitarianism. Does the global investor class get it? How could it not? - Larry Kudlow

This is an insane caricature of conservatism - where the hidden hand is a mailed fist. For Kudlow the "American experiment" is vitally assisted by Israel's campaign, which is expanding freedom. I don't think my nation ought to be diminished or vitally enhanced in any sense from a conflict such as the one we witness in Southern Lebanon. (I wonder how Beirut's economy is doing these days.) So , what is Kudlow's point here? About which is he more gleeful, lower totalitarianism err interest rates or the great march of global capital uh... freedom? Where there is money, there is truth and justice.