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To: Arik T.G. who wrote (24088)	4/22/2005 6:26:47 PM
From: isopatch	Respond to of 108683

Agree. There R still limits to what they can do. But they're capability to manipulate the markets goes as a direct consequence of the growth of government vs the private economy. Look at it this way: Picture a pie chart representing the GDP of the US economy. the area of that circle becomes larger from LT economic growth, the business and private economy grows with it. OTOH.... For many years, Federal, State and Local government has grown faster than the US private & business economy. So, portion of the pie accounted for by government grows larger relative to the portion representing the private business economy. The inevitable result of that process has been and continues to be greater and greater government control and manipulation of the markets. Everything points to that trend continuing with the market less and less capable of reflecting the once paramount forces of supply and demand. Isopatch