Comments on: Looting the American Coffers. Discussion About the Stock Market Weirdness. Predictions.

By: youtube

youtube — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:52:08 +0000

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By: media kingdom

media kingdom — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:32:48 +0000

it’s hard to object to the government’s mass bailouts from a historical standpoint since similar debt-producing methods were put into action to save the U.S. from the Depression; maybe we’re really socialists at heart and don’t want to admit it…

By: Software Developer

Software Developer — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:31:13 +0000

Thank you for including this in the discussion. I will never cease to be amazed at the volatility and unpredictable nature of the stock market. Respect it or it will eat you alive!

By: brian t

brian t — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:50:59 +0000

Are they banning ALL short selling? I knew that Chris Cox (SEC Chair) had a problem with “naked” short selling – selling shares you haven’t even borrowed, expecting to buy them for less than you paid to sell them..!

By: Paddy-O

Paddy-O — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:50:49 +0000

#7 “Here’s a way to balance the equation …”

LOL!

By: chuck

chuck — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:48:57 +0000

We need to balance out the bail-outs.
As Horowitz said, there is a moral/ethical problem with the bail-outs: why should any bank CEO be concerned about taking risks if they know the government will always bail them out?

Here’s a way to balance the equation: if a bank or company (like GM, Ford) gets a government bail-out, the CEO and the top executives of the company get executed. Preferably in public, if the most disgusting and gruesome method imaginable.

So the public is protected, and the CEOs of other companies learn that risk-taking has some downside.

By: Springheel Jack

Springheel Jack — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:03:01 +0000

I haven’t seen this much government intervention since the U.S.S.R bit the dust. And this is a Republican administration?

By: chuck

chuck — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:02:51 +0000

Trying to ban short-selling is like telling us we can only do addition, never subtraction. It’s idiotic.

When you short a stock, you’re “borrowing” the stock from someone else and have to repay it eventually. The other person still owns the stock, and they are “going long”. If the stock goes down, it costs you less to repay the loan that it was worth at the start, so you make money.

This means that someone else thinks the stock will go up and that when you repay the loan they will make more that it was worth.

In other words, if you ban short-selling, you are also banning other people from going long.

By: QB

QB — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:27:11 +0000

This has been years in the making ever since that stupid Gramm McCain bill. The government should be providing reasonable oversight so people can trade with confidence.

Stopping short selling? Right….that’ll keep the markets liquid.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:33:44 +0000

Never was a free market and by the looks of things, it never will be.

By: Springheel Jack

Springheel Jack — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:54:15 +0000

Behold the market: self-correction is a beautiful thing.

Capitalism is a beautiful thing.

All hail von Mises and Hayek.