Posted on 10/26/2013 4:36:46 PM PDT by lbryce
All I can say is, it’s no wonder certain people seem to have inside information regarding stock and bond movements. With the NSA’s ability to spy on any world leader (or corporate CEO for that matter), is there any such thing as an untampered with stock and bond market?
....is there any such thing as an untampered with stock and bond market?
In a word, I would have to respond with an emphatic No.
That is one of the criticisms of the capitalist system, the lure of greed, corruption, as part of the human condition, always lurking.
Alan Greenspan, the thoroughly impugned Oracle of Clueless-ness of irrational exuberance infamy, said that his misreading of the markets was the result of his belief that markets would be able to control themselves, where he is saying that greed and corruption will always rear its ugly head in the absence of governmental regulation. That is, when government intervenes in the matter of controlling abuse, when the urge of greed and corruption meets government regulation, instead of making a windfall, you get to be a long-term guest of the government courtesy of an extended stay at a federal penitentiary.
Zero Hedge:January 18, 2013-Did Tim Geithner Leak Every Fed Announcement To The Banks?
“The buck does NOT stop here”
Exactly — she became Chancellor in 2005, and CDU head in 2000.
BTW, AFAIC, if the US gov’t were *not* spying on other gov’ts, it wouldn’t be doing its job.
HaHa, someone please queue up the picture of President Bush giving Angela Merkel a neck massage!
Oh, heck I found it!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5dfrHT8o-0A&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5dfrHT8o-0A
That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time. A statement from the “White House” is worth less than a fart from a rat's ass.
3...2...1...
‘It was started under Bush and Obama was just recently apprised of it and stopped it immediately.’
There now, Clear? /s
Getting too easy to predict this bunch.
Well from a European point of view: You guys obvoiusly do not understand that the “problem” can not be reduced on Obama. The spying on Merkels cellphone started in 2002, long before Obama was president.
You might not think that trust and friendship are important. Many of you understand Germany and the rest of Europe still as a occupied area. But it is not. America lost its influence on the old continent during the last decade in a fundamental way. Like it or hate it, but the “no” of Chancellor Schroeder during your Iraq-campain and your so called “war on terror” was the end of the old system of power in Europe. Long before Obama. The outcome could be in the long term, that espechially we Germans turn away from the US and NATO some day. There is a deep gap between the anglo-american side and “old Europe”, even if such reasonable politicians like Merkel do everything not to carry it to the extremes. “New” (Eastern) Europe was and is simply disappointed about American politics since 2002. Their help in Iraq and elsewhere never paid out for them. Therefore it might be quite likely that they find themselves in an stream away from the US, if the big and powerful European countries like Germany and France overthink their relationship with America.
You should know that her predecessor Schroeder from the leftist SPD had a much better relationship with Putin than with your former president, George W. Bush. Just imagine what could happen if Merkels successor has simular feelings and finds out that we Germans can do perfectly without you.
It would not only be a bye bye from Ramstein, but you Americans should also ask yourself how many “real” friends the US have left on this little planet after they lost central Europe. The UK, Pakistan and Tuvalu?
It is not the end of the US in Europe (since I i.e. do not believe that German friends should be searched in Russia only), but it is difficult to find sympathy among our people for a nation that steals our secrets and misuses our trust.
Therefore: Help the friends of the US on the old continent and return to friendship and trust.
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