[VegasCowboy]

I agree. Sometimes when I think of Wall Street and the Dow and so on with it going over 11K, there are times I wonder about various conspiracy theories and the idea of where there is some sort of artificial propping up of the values, sort of like "nothing wrong here, move along, nothing to see" like the dumb cop in "South Park."

Do you have any idea how many people would have to be involved in such a conspiracy? Not only that, but they would all have to trust one another to not sell out from under the others. No offense, but there is no way in hell such a thing is occuring. The stock market is pure free market economics at work.

[Nowhere Man]

Do you have any idea how many people would have to be invol,/ived in such a conspiracy? Not only that, but they would all have to trust one another to not sell out from under the others. No offense, but there is no way in hell such a thing is occuring. The stock market is pure free market economics at work.

Well, maybe I should have used the word "consensus" but as one saying goes, "sometimes the best way to hide something is to have it out in the open."