I'm sure you're a nice chap, but, sorry, you simply don't get it. Condemn me all you like; I'll be making some sort of profit all this year, and the next, and the next...
Lesson 1 of Screwy Markets: Do not subscribe to a ''villain'' theory or a ''conspiracy'' theory. The villains may conspire, but that's only because goobermint allows them to do so.
Lesson 2 of Screwy Markets: Goobermint have NEVER taken any action whatever that has had the net effect of ''calming'' or ''smoothing'' screwy markets. Goobermint BENEFITS from screwy mkts; when mkts become sufficiently screwy, as they do from time to time, goobermint gets down on its knees and prays actively for the citizens to start hollering ''DO something!!'', at which point the members of goobermint start licking their overfed chops. They know, at that point, that they're about to gain more power, which is all the great majority of goobermint ''people'' are after.
“I’m sure you’re a nice chap, but, sorry, you simply don’t get it.” “Condemn me all you like...”
First of all I fail to see anywhere that I condemned you. You did have some heated exchanges with gipper81 and groanup, but also complemented gipper81 on one of his links.
Second, I am not a ‘nice chap’ I am a 69 year old, widowed, grandmother, who is just getting back into the world after 10 years of caring for dying mother, father, and husband. I am simply trying to learn and understand the world that I have not been able to pay much attention to in the past decade, also learning to use my first computer which I have had for only 2 years. No need to get nasty with either me or happygrl, as we just are trying to make sense of a very complicated set of situations.
Now maybe this is a man/women thing. Perhaps it is normal for men to claw and fight, and make accusations that people are highjacking the thread, and then find something nice to say to each other. This is not a typical woman style of interacting, and while I don’t care for it I will look past it to find the nuggets of useful information amidst the droppings.