What's driving the markets lower and why just before our elections? The timing is questionable, to say the least. A lot of possibilities come to mind including economic terrorism.
Conspiracy Theory
Started by
Rich
, Oct 22 2008 09:19 PM
8 replies to this topic
#2
milbank
-
- TT Patron+
- 4,714 posts
Member
Posted 22 October 2008 - 09:25 PM
If you consider DuPont, Catapillar, Ford, Boeing, Wachovia and Amazon for starters "economic terrorists" you may be on to something. Putting out such lousy reports and announcements is not what "real America" is all about is it?
Edited by milbank, 22 October 2008 - 09:27 PM.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
--George Bernard Shaw
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#4
AChartist
-
- Traders-Talk User
- 5,800 posts
Tim
Posted 22 October 2008 - 09:58 PM
I think that would be 5-600T of derivatives. That's the whole ballgame.
What's driving the markets lower and why just before our elections? The timing is questionable, to say the least. A lot of possibilities come to mind including economic terrorism.
"marxism-lennonism-communism always fails and never worked, because I know
some of them, and they don't work" M.Jordan
#5
VolPivots
-
- Chartist
- 3,203 posts
Member
Posted 22 October 2008 - 10:59 PM
Now don't go looking to shoot the messenger.....i'm a hardcore libertarian that believes in same sex marriage and 1 newborn per household since they both reduce traffic in the long-run 
(i'm kidding of course....i'm really an anarchist that believes in radical gov't reform and propose the creation of a come-to-jesus thinktank that results in fiscally prudent policy-making actions (or inactions) AND accountability for reckless deficit spending 
) that aside, a simple observation....it's been a "testy" 8 years, hasn't it? Conspiracy? Bad coaching? Or just another cycle in the perpetual economic longwave?
well...an 8 year chart didn't post like I'd intended, but u can look up the SPX:XEU ratio for yourselves......
http://stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?s=$NYA:$XEU&p=W&st=2001-01-01&i=t72631977603&r=291.png
(i'm kidding of course....i'm really an anarchist that believes in radical gov't reform and propose the creation of a come-to-jesus thinktank that results in fiscally prudent policy-making actions (or inactions) AND accountability for reckless deficit spending ) that aside, a simple observation....it's been a "testy" 8 years, hasn't it? Conspiracy? Bad coaching? Or just another cycle in the perpetual economic longwave?well...an 8 year chart didn't post like I'd intended, but u can look up the SPX:XEU ratio for yourselves......
http://stockcharts.com/c-sc/sc?s=$NYA:$XEU&p=W&st=2001-01-01&i=t72631977603&r=291.png
Edited by marketneutral, 22 October 2008 - 11:00 PM.
#6
ed rader
-
- Traders-Talk User
- 2,390 posts
Member
Posted 22 October 2008 - 11:04 PM
hey Rich....so you think everything is really okay?
t boone pickens wants to save America this time around and even he the other big oil guys aren't bankrolling attack ads. that should tell you something .
ed rader
.
ed rader
Edited by ed rader, 22 October 2008 - 11:05 PM.
#7
humble1
-
- Traders-Talk User
- 5,959 posts
Member
Posted 23 October 2008 - 03:10 AM
totally agree: pickens is the biggest con man on the planet, right up there with soros. this has nothing to do with politics, since they are on different sides.
actually, that is wrong: that are on the same side - their OWN side. everything they say is for their self interest. soros made his big money shorting the pound with inside info that the BoE was going to devalue. and pickens wants us to give him over $100 billion.
#8
dasein
-
- Traders-Talk User
- 7,696 posts
Member
Posted 23 October 2008 - 03:14 AM
i gave my conspiracy theory in another post - it is not related to elections, it is only related to transfering wealth, in that since the credit music has stopped, there are only one step left, to crash the market, which will, inter alia disenfranchise the baby boomers who are starting to remove their wealth, and allow productive assets to be bought for next to nothing for the slow slog back up.
best,
klh
klh
#9
Rich
-
- Traders-Talk User
- 761 posts
Member
Posted 23 October 2008 - 08:10 PM
hey Rich....so you think everything is really okay?
ed rader
Did I say that? If it is a conspiracy to affect the elections, then the market should move higher after Nov. 4th.
Rich
