Imho:

Perfectly legal short-selling is seemingly why many/most should not be
in the stock & commodity markets.

I do not know, though suspect that "naked short selling" has been
flagrant because the laws & rules are APPARENTLY easily surmounted and
sporadically enforced

I am not an expert, and therefore shall not claim as fact what I do
not understand well enough.

Almost everybody (401-K etc) is indirectly involved in the stock
markets in one way or another, and some Republicans have actually
advocated that Social Security be dependent on the so-called
"securities markets" of which universal fuddy-duddy Al Gore observed
as "risky,"

The USA banking industry nearly was decimated earlier this week, and
when I linked THE END by Jim Morrison that's some of what I was
whistling by the graveyard in making absurdity out of potential
tragedy.

The federal government has now put some ad hoc band-aids on the ...
cancer, and the major banks stockholders are seemingly less unhappy.

On Jul 18, 8:39 pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:15:38 -0700, Immortalist wrote:

To REALLY profit a short seller, or fund, can get their bud, or partner,
at one of the financials to downgrade the stock, or to publish something
negative, or to have 'inside' information on a litigation, or... dang, so
many ways.

This is very interesting...

On Jul 19, 8:02 am, ZerkonX X.net> wrote:

On Jul 19, 10:01 am, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:

Robert, good issues.

imho the stock market, the money markets, the oil markets, the pork bellies
market, the wheat futures, the gold price, the WTA, the UN, the whole damn
shebang is a load of cobblers bs.

The interest rate settings, the fed, the treasury system, the income tax on
labour, the charging of interest %% on loans being the ability to "put money
to work" is also a load of utter cobblers.

add to that the two party system, the patriot act, the war on terror, the
invasion of iraq, the vietnam war, and the all the usual horseshit that
transpires as world leadership is also horseshite, as is the wars in sudan,
zimbabwe, tibet, burma, phillipines, iraq, afghanistan, kosovo, east timor,
niger, ivory coast, chad, nth korea, solomon islands, brazil, columbia,
venzuela, chechna, mongolia, iran, egypt, lebanon, palestine, syria, saudi
arabia, arab emirates, the artic, the antartic, and china.

almost covers the lot. didn't mention Israel on purpose because it is a
Palestinian land/nation not Jewish, and should therefore be re-invented as a
true non-racist democractic state that respects under the Law the equal
rights of all it's RIGHTFUL citizens. imho of course, your milage may vary.
:)

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On Jul 19, 11:10 pm, "blablabla" isp.com> wrote:

On Jul 20, 9:41 am, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote: