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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

clanSkeen wrote:

> > From Tvo's article:
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> > Despite strong corporate profits,
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> the Dow Jones industrial average has been stuck just above 10,000 --
> trading in the same sluggish range it has maintained all year.
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> Otherwise it is like my expense till illustration.  If no one is willing at
> that time to buy up the share of the person cashing out, the 'value' of that
> share must be lowered until someone IS willing to buy it, and the original
> investor only gets that much.  If he originally put in $1000 and asks to
> have his money back, and the most anyone is willing to give for his 'share'
> is $600, that's all he gets.   Seeing this, people will be even less willing
> to buy from the next person who bails out and the next person might only get
> $400.   If everyone scrambled to bail out at once, the amount they would get
> would be next to nothing.
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> So Wall Street reacting to an empty Piggy Bank is unconvincing, Wall
> Street's piggy bank never had any actual coins to shake out on demand, it
> has been empty all along.
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> James
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> tvoivozhd---you got that right, James---it's all an illusion---and to make 
> the illusion worse we have paper-and-ink currency that can be changed in an 
> instant, arbitrarily,instantly devalued, devalued more slowly by running the 
> printinp press night and day---or just plain old cancelled---put your money 
> in something safe like AK-47' and shoulder-held missile-launchers---and keep 
> your sailboat ready to depart for Belize.
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