onereality Wrote:
"...He would have fit in in the good old days when actual human beings decided what direction the market heads in, and money was an actual earned barter note and not a fictional derivative leveraged against another fictional derivative. Now when a computer goes rogue the market swing 20%. It would swing more but they pull the plug before it becomes too obvious that we are all just in the back seat with a blindfold on. Our inevitable future has started to become obvious to the smarter retailers, who are now carrying an umbrella 24-7 no matter what the talkingheads short and long term weather forecast is."
You said it well; the game is rigged and a lot of people are aware of it. It now seems to be generally accepted that hardly any punishment is ever doled out to bigtime crooks at senior levels. Even Mr. Buffet changed his tune from a while back when he spoke the truth about deriatives being weapons of mass financial destruction; it seems that he has been co-opted by the banksters.