Posted on 08/28/2009 10:09:08 AM PDT by FromLori
Edited on 08/28/2009 10:22:47 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Dell's release slipped out about three minutes before the market closed Thursday, giving the company's shares a boost of 98 cents, or 6.7%, to end at $15.65. The stock topped $16 ahead of Friday's opening bell.
Really? You sure about that Marketwatch?
(Excerpt) Read more at market-ticker.denninger.net ...
Unfortunately, this is so common an event as to be normal.
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
-Ayn Rand
maybe this sort of thing should be decriminalized. They aren’t stealing from you or defrauding you.
It's hard to find a "victim" directly, but upon reflection, consider that it's a lay-up for somebody, and that's a big problem, because lay-up are powerful currency. All of a sudden there's a market within a market, a market of insiders supported by outsiders, and that's not to be tolerated.
They most certainly are if you have money in a bond or retirement plan think about it.
They must have seen Obozo’s latest polling numbers (-14%) and decided that things were getting better because he was doing so badly.
Go figure.
Prophetic
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