Interesting...the PPT believers are going to love this. Are we experiencing a "rare circumstance" where the government props up certain stocks, hmmmm.........
Here's one thing I've wondered about. Buying stock is so easy today. Could wealthy interests not fond of the US end up owning large proportions of companies which are important to the US economy and defense?
Red China was moving to penetrate the U.S. securities markets
Capital-Rich Chinese Firms Look Abroad for Acquisitions
PLA Espionage Means Business
"The trail of Chinese agents of influence and enablers leads from corporate boardrooms to the White House. It is a vast spy network that now has tapped into billions of dollars of U.S. pension funds to support military activity, according to Roger Robinson, former senior director of international economic affairs at the National Security Council.
...All of this is part of a master plan that uses U.S. political leaders and lobbying efforts from big-bucks political donors to get export licenses for China, intelligence sources say."
High-Tech Transfers To China Continue Under Bush
Who's To Blame In Bank Of NY, Russian Mafia Scandal?
"Russian" Mafia Involved in Stock Fraud in USA
LONDON 'IS LAUNDERING CENTRE FOR RUSSIAN MAFIA CASH'
It can work both ways:
An Inconvenient History - The Russian Money Laundering Pyramid