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To: tejek who wrote (260593)	7/13/2010 11:15:55 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

The stock market and a true economy are two distinct entities. One should not be dependent on the other. The gubbamint wants them to be one and the same, being the US has developed a growing deficiency in the global arena of goods and services and a deficit everywhere else. Money creation has been the US's biggest growth industry for at least 20 years. Before that, only a very small fraction of the public even imagined investing in the market There's an ever expanding and concerted effort to pull anyone and everyone into WS's grasp. From the individual to the pension fund. Prop up the market, and ideally everything gets back into gear due to the real and perceived wealth created. Until they're realized gains, it's nothing but paper wealth. If and when there is a mass exodus, we get a crash and the last ones are left holding a a cert with a .01 cent par value. So the only ones who really gain and are wealthy are those who are meaningfully cashing in at the weak-kneed tops and converting to hard assets. MOST public corporations could not be born or survive without access to the WS trough, from inception to dissolution to reincarnation. Only through unlimited borrowings are they able to cover their overhead, their dividends, and still pay exorbitant salaries to mgmt that are way disproportionate to what they contribute. The market is a game, not a barometer of the economy.

To: tejek who wrote (260593)	7/14/2010 2:33:42 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>>And why is every data point I put up invalid and your's the rock of gibralter? Is it because I am bullish and you are bearish? And because its more popular and accepted to be bearish these days?<< because my data pertains to what is actually being discussed - credit in the economy as a whole, not a subset thereof. credit is CONTRACTING in the economy as WHOLE. that's what i said, that's what i meant, that is what is happening - you disagreed based on the fed saying some investment credit was up and that is simply no reason to disagree with the facts.