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It's rigged but it's funny at the same time. www.cnn.com at the bottom of the page, the two articles they have under business (one above the other): - BUSINESS CNNMoney.com Home PageVideo • Home-price forecast: First ever drop • Rational exuberance - I love it

I was just thinking.. does this deal need regulatory approval and how likely is it that it will get it? I mean, the largest al. producer buying the second largest sounds like it should be difficult to get approval. How big will the combined company's share of the market be? If it's very big and...

The problem is, everyone buying now is buying because they think more will buy after them and drive the market higher. At this rate the time will soon come when the "150 million" accounts are open and everyone is in the market, all that's left to inscrease share prices are profits/dividends, and...

Oh, that and try to pump 200B cap stocks... I guess people really do believe this is 1999 already..

The biggest problem will be inflation, because many things are pushing inflation upwards, one of them is the huge rise in the market. When markets rise further than they should it is equivalent to printing money. In a few months when CPI comes in at 2% annual and people notice that the milk and...

Yeah... that is if china's leaders don't give a crap about their economy as their US counterparts. If they do, they will curb it very very soon. It doesn't matter how many people there are wanting to buy, all that matters is if the valuation is high or low.

I suppose one could buy hundreds of calls on insider info and claim to have bought them on the unusual call volume? It must be very hard to prove most of these trades, so fines for the ones that are proven should be very very high, and made very very public.

http://fidweek.econoday.com/reports/US/EN/New_York/gdp/year/2007/yearly/04/index.html Doesn't go further back than 2000 but it's the highest since then

I wanna hear the spin on this one.. makloda is still thinking it up... it's a toughie... growth was slow but the usual argument that it means the fed will cut doesn't really work now with a 4% deflator.. I really wanna hear this one :p edit: damn you were fast! nice one.. "Bad for economy ->...

Today _is_ the future, financially. Noone invests (daytraders don't invest) in a stock for its current value, only for its future value. Like I said, in a few years, their growth won't be tied to the US anymore than the US's will be tied to theirs, so you won't have any bargaining power. Right...

I think you, like 99.9% of your fellow Americans are seriously mistaken. You can only inflate your way out of debt as long as your creditors allow you to, and other countries will only continue to allow it until they can fight back. Five years from now china will be a serious threat and it...

No, if the US were to print dollars and use them, for example, to buy a new statue (or computer or desk or whatever) from Europe, the dollar would go down but inflation would be exported to europe. What you have in the US is that rapid consolidation is erasing competition which leads to lower...

If we see an 8% one day drop, what would the trend be in your opinion? It doesn't matter when the market corrects. Everyone recognizes the market is overvalued now, the reason people still buy is because the momentum is there. If you believe that the bubble will not reach 99-00 proportions...

Because having assets go up 100% in 6 months and then down 50% the following 6 months is bad for stability and overall growth, yet no one curbs it out of personal greed and interest.