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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:04 PM Original message |
What would happen if the stock market system were entirely dismantled? |
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StrongBad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. Um |
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BushOut06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. How did we ever get by without a stock market? |
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Sanctified (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Most people worked in Agriculture. |
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StrongBad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:31 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. Feudalism. It was fun! |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Like businesses are so efficient in raising capital.... |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Debt is the "alternative" to equity |
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StrongBad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Then only the rich could own a business |
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Dora (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Wouldn't that only effect certain businesses? |
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StrongBad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Well stock is still issued even if the company is not publically traded |
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Wcross (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. Businesses would find it difficult to raise capital. |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Some businesses should be made to find it difficult to raise capital.... |
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StrongBad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:26 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. Well nobody would invest in a poor business like Enron anymore so your point is moot |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:36 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Enron was considered to be a GREAT company, until |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 02:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. That was my whole point. That a company like Enron would not receive |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
6. Dogs and cats would start sleeping together. |
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Davis_X_Machina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
10. Get a copy of Braudel's... |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. The elimination of private equity markets |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Leaving it to business to determine what is good for people has brought |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:28 PM Response to Reply #12 |
16. You forgot the sarcasm tag...then again, you really don't need it. |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
19. No one would really know what to pay for shares of corporations. |
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1monster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-10-07 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
20. I'd lose my retirement fund, which, although it is not much, it is all I have to |
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