RE: I think it is BETTER than 6/49.When you buy a 6/49 ticket, you know in advance that you are thowing your money away. That is not supposed to happen when you buy stocks, but thanks to the current market madness, it might as well be a lottery. One can only hope that the odds are better than 14 million to one...
A friend asked me the other day who I thought had caused more damage to the world economy: the 9/11 terrorists, or the Wall St. bankers who sold their "AAA" rated MBS to everybody. The answer seems obvious...
Maybe "credit default swaps" were conceived in a cave in Afganistan...