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To: posthumousone who wrote (298811)	12/18/2010 10:47:05 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 306849

RE:"if we are in depression why are stocks booming and bonuses handed out in the billions?" Just look'em where bailout money has gone... Hint...Wall Street Banksters and Unions. Who manipulates stocks and has big pension fund in market?

To: posthumousone who wrote (298811)	12/18/2010 10:49:34 AM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<if we are in depression why are stocks booming and bonuses handed out in the billions?> Banksters have apparently unlimited access to Fed Funds on which they can earn a riskless spread by plowing the unlimited funds back into treasuries. Combined with the daily use of this excess cash to run the hft machine and prop the stock market to engineered price levels. Great times for banksters and CEO's. Party all around with ill gotten gains and bailouts and the gurantees that still stand behind the bailouts. Depression times for workers and unemployed and underemployed. Nobody bailed them out or offered them risk free investment capital, so they have no stocks to be booming and no bonuses to revel in. WTF? Man? WTF?

To: posthumousone who wrote (298811)	12/18/2010 11:37:18 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

You are kidding right? We are running about 16 to 20% real unemployment. The banks, rich and businesses are doing great due to free money, cheap labor, low taxes and high productivity. The poor and middle class are sinking into poverty. This is what the Republicans have been working on for 30 years. Rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. And the rich and corporations are winning due to the categorical support of the Republicans. << we aren't in a depression...heck we aren't even in a recession...... the recession has been over if we are in depression why are stocks booming and bonuses handed out in the billions?