We know that survival in today's investment jungle is unlikely without tools, techniques and forward thinking. We also understand that no matter how brilliant, savvy, educated, skilled or prescient you may be, the market will always find a way to outsmart you. The reality of life in the investment jungle is the cold reality of the food chain. Whether you call it economic Darwinism, financial immorality, or the battle for financial superiority the fact remains that the winners in today's markets are neither the rodents nor the lions. In the investment jungle, rodents and other small beasts live in eternal fear at the bottom of the food chain.
Elephants are easy targets for poachers, sharpshooters, tusk collectors, and trophy hunters.
But the ultra-fast wildebeest survives. The quick-witted monkey swings from tree to tree, far above the fray, surviving on its big picture view of the battlefield below. You may argue that monkeys and the great apes are endangered species as well. You will point to the near extinction of the chimpanzee and other simians. And we would be the first to agree.