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To: energyplay who wrote (43865)	12/13/2008 10:09:33 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217927

Yes but looking at the system as whole.. something must be broken... for this epidemic to have occurred.. one could ask about say, the uptick rule.. and then the farce of naked shorting... so bad that they suspended all shorting temporarily in a very small universe of stocks..... I suspect that the market in that regard simply cannot be properly policed.. which gives me pause.. and I'm sure many others looking from the outside .. Someone on SI used to have have 'Think like a criminal' in their profile.. Good to look at all markets that way... My point was that the US financial system and markets are usually held out as paragons. It's a feet of clay thing ... :o)

To: energyplay who wrote (43865)	12/14/2008 2:26:23 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217927

eplay governments got rich in the past 60 years by sucking wealth from the citizen. The great unwiding we see now, is nothing less that the governments getting poorer since the capacity of the common citizen to transfer his wealth to the state is severely curtailed. Stimulus plan, tax cuts and bailouts are nothing less than the nation-state giving back money that belong to the economy. China said it plans to increase the amount of money circulating in its economy next year in a new effort to spur consumer spending and shield the country from a global downturn. nytimes.com Brazil’s government will cut taxes by 8.4 billion reais ($3.6 billion) to revive the slowing economy and meet a 4 percent growth target next year, Finance Minister Guido Mantega said. bloomberg.com