[an amused spectator]

Hey! Between entertainers Orman, Dave Ramsey and that idiot Kramer dude, to say nothing of Bob Brinker the once lucky market timer... NONE of 'em saw this thing sneaking up on all of us!!! (This goes for Adam Bold and a host of others, too!)

Well, you have to cut them all some slack, because NOBODY in their right mind would believe that someone would deliberately crash the stock market to win an election.

But somebody(s) did:

YouTube - Rep. Kanjorski: $550 Billion Disappeared in "Electronic Run On the Banks"

I'd say that a draw-down of $550 billion in money market accounts in an hour or two on a late Monday morning in mid-September just before the election qualifies as someone tampering with the market and the election.

But hey - that's just me. I'm a suspicious guy by nature.

In the final analysis, what it REALLY means is that until the government gives us some answers on who and what (and they KNOW who did this), the stock market is radioactively toxic.

[SierraWasp]

Rush talked about this on Monday in the first hour. It really got me to thinking because he mentioned George Soreass and it reminded me that this came first on Sept. 16 when that MMMF broke the buck. This was right on the heels of Sept. 11, a day that still lives in infamy.

No one has ever answered the question that a host of FReepers were asking at the time about who was selling major insurance companies and airlines short on the days leading up to 9-11-01. I'm not a conspiracy kook (keeper of odd knowledge), but I've seen some pretty spectacular things being orchestrated around Soros, Move On.org and ACORN in the last few years!!!

The trigger was pulled on the 16th with the breaking of the buck at one of the largest and oldest MMMF in America. Then two days later we had a run on all the nation's Money Market Mutual Funds... SOMETHING IS UP!!!

[Starfleet Command]

I'd say that a draw-down of $550 billion in money market accounts in an hour or two on a late Monday morning in mid-September just before the election qualifies as someone tampering with the market and the election.

F'ing aye right.

I'm betting on an Muslim/Soros/Russian axis. Yes, I left out the Chinese on purpose, because although they are big into asymmetric warfare, crashing us before they have domestic tranquility domestically sustainable would make no sense.