Arrogant

I've been called arrogant, mostly by my mother, and occasionally by my friends, but frankly I couldn't care less.

Here's why:
In the '20's , Ludvig Von Mises predicted the Great Depression. In 2002, at age 12, I predicted this "Global Financial Crisis." I'm not lying. I knew it was coming and not because I'm especially clever. When I was 11, my dad told me that after we went off the gold standard, the only thing left to base our wealth off was our land, and that's why housing prices were skyrocketing.
I thought this was stupid. How could turning productive farmland into investment property be a good idea? How could we possible need or afford so many houses?
By the time the invasion of Afghanistan was turning ugly, I had figured it out. We can't.

My virgin mind saw what not one mainstream economist could. Not because it's big and bright, but because it was a simple problem and no one had come along and distracted me with the many fallacies that brought this situation about.

Now, because no one else bothered to see this until it was too late, I'm pretty pissed off. If a 12 year old, suffering with mental illness and crippling social anxiety can tell you that in the next few years the most powerful nation on earth will be bankrupted by war and bad monetary policy, surely SOMEONE in government could have done something. Surely someone else could see this.

But alas, the few voices in the wilderness were not heard and I truly believe it is too late and it's all YOUR fault. The worker, the boss, the banker and the debtor. You failed to hear the warnings. Failed to see what was coming. You marginalized us. You ignored us and now we all have to pay the price. The only reason I'm willing to help, to keep shouting into the abyss is because you're taking me and the people I care about with you.

So understand, I'm not being arrogant when I say; I was right. I'm still right. Grow up and deal with it.