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To: Road Walker who wrote (441535)	12/19/2008 4:13:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576874

Six months ago, oil was going out the door like hotcakes.....now we don't know where to store the surplus. I must remember to keep....free markets are efficient... I can't remember how many times I said "oil trades at the margin" but even I am shocked by the price drop. Consumption has dropped what, less than 10% right? And those that claimed there was only a minor speculative premium really have to eat their words. I wonder how much of the current problem was an effect of the runup in gasoline, which slowed the economy and maybe started or exacerbated the slowdown in housing, which exposed all the warts, which... ... ... ... ... The rising gas prices coupled with people running around screaming the sky is falling had to have a huge psychological impact. There has to be better regulation of hedge funds......they wreak too much havoc in the markets. In fact, the stock market in general has to be overhauled. Its morphed into something that seems to work only for the hedge funds.

To: Road Walker who wrote (441535)	12/19/2008 4:14:51 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576874

I don't get the grandparents and their defense of their daughter. In fact, I don't get this whole thing. If you didn't want the kid, why not give her up for adoption? Why murder her? Sickening. DNA tests confirm remains are Caylee Anthony</ba> google.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (441535)	12/20/2008 9:56:36 PM
From: combjelly	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576874

"I wonder how much of the current problem was an effect of the runup in gasoline, which slowed the economy and maybe started or exacerbated the slowdown in housing, which exposed all the warts, which... ... ... ... ..." It is always the confluence of several factors that starts something like this. Once they get started, they all feed on one another to make it worse. Which is the whole point of the regulation that many were whining about. Sure, in most cases it impedes the growth of capital. But, without them, you get the world economy doing a belly flop every couple of decades. We went through centuries of that happening until the 20th century. Now, true, it didn't totally stop business cycles. But the downturns were no longer the white knuckled plunge into the unknown like the panics of the 19th century.