How to Deal with Being Swindled

How to Deal with Being Swindled
Psalm 109

This weekend we plan to go to a new movie about some of the victims of the financial meltdown in the first decade of this century. They are the staff of a high-end condo block who discover that the occupant of the penthouse has been engaged in a billion-dollar fraud that (among other things) has robbed them of their pension fund. They decide to get their redress by robbing the financial mogul. “At least for a little while it will make you laugh instead of cry about the current state of affairs, which is more than you can say about a lot of things,” one reviewer comments. In real life, in the aftermath of that meltdown, the media have reported how the victims of such a swindler threatened to kill his wife and children...