Quote from the bouch:
So my grandmother is getting slaughtered? Everyone not long stocks is getting slaughtered? Does that sound like a healthy thing to you?
Quote from gigsup:
Could this all hinge on the deflation vs. inflation argument? If you think deflation is headed our way, it would be time to step aside.
I lean more toward the inflation camp, but ready for anything.
Quote from gigsup:
Could this all hinge on the deflation vs. inflation argument? If you think deflation is headed our way, it would be time to step aside.
I lean more toward the inflation camp, but ready for anything.

Quote from karajan123:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009...might-be-due-to-big-government-subisdies.html
most investment professionals I know regard the latter phases of the stock market rally with great suspicion (too much end of day tape painting, too many heavy handed short squeezes, continued thin volume, and suspicious moves on indexes when they near levels that are significant to technicians). That of course begs the question, âIf the market is being manipulated, how and by whom?â When I worked with the Japanese, it was widely known that the Japanese securities firms manipulated the markets and the politicians were tipped off early and bought stocks the brokers were about to ramp (look, if I as a mere gaijin heard about it, it was hardly secret). Yet when it came out in the Japanese media years later, it was treated as a huge scandal. I was and am perplexed that a widely-known practice could be treated as such a remarkable event. I regard much of this rally as a similar open secret, except how this is being carried out is a mystery (is this mere trader opportunism and brute force that looks like collusion, with the perps secure in the knowledge that the government wonât act against rule violations, since the outcome serves their interests, or something more deliberate?)