SP 500 and NDX Futures Daily Charts - A Nation of Financiers

"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers."

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
Most people do not realize that it was Adam Smith who wrote