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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nevada9999 who wrote (14486)	11/14/2008 2:41:18 AM
From: Don Earl	Respond to of 71412

No argument here. I think it goes without saying that bear traps are often a part of manipulating any market higher. What you describe with VW isn't all that much different than what happened to YHOO in the late 90s. A big chunk of the stock was held by insiders and there simply wasn't enough shares to cover short positions. Anyhow, it'll be interesting to see what happens. I suspect there are reasons why depressions/recessions happen that don't have much to do with "accidents" or "surprises". There are always an elite few that benefit from terrible events. At the same time, events with the potential to turn into what is quaintly referred to as "civil unrest" are dangerous even to the elite. More than a few kings have been brought to their knees by peasants with pitchforks.