[Scott from the Left Coast]

While that may be true, I think it is really because of the mounting debt crisis and the fact that stock market manipulation these days is comparable to NBA basketball.

[brownsfan]

“While that may be true, I think it is really because of the mounting debt crisis and the fact that stock market manipulation these days is comparable to NBA basketball.”

Agreed.

I’m not a stock market historian, but seems to me that the market has evolved from an investment to a casino.

Whatever happened to buying a stock, and accumulating wealth based on performance and DIVIDENDS?