RE: I own 12,000 shares of this pig a 7.40 No you are NOT Stupid!!
There are just too many lying, cheating, greedy, manipulating people that are trying to get you and I to part with our money. They call it a stock market, but as NR after NR after NR have proved over the last few years the market is nothing more than a wealth transfer mechanism.
Idea is to ensure the common folks don't get too much $$/power. So there needs to be a way to transfer the wealth from the middle class to governments and people in power. Even people in the know are getting burned(JP Morgan) because they have made the entire so complex they can no longer control the animal they created.