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cbdo2007

(9,213 posts)
1. I'm pretty sure it's due to Dick Clark's declining health and death.....
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 03:40 PM
Apr 2012

or maybe the Secret Service prostitution scandal.....

or maybe the wrong person got voted off American Idol last week....

whether it goes up or down, someone's going to come with some dumb excuse for it.

bobalew

(321 posts)
2. No, It's the Equity & Hedge funds finding yet another method to Yank , Tank & Steal all the value
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 03:58 PM
Apr 2012

from the market Since the 2008 Crash. How else do you think they & the Banks are able to pay back the trillions of Ca$h given to them secretly by the Fed, and then also pay back TARP? Meanwhile Good Companies who are working their A$$'s off get all of their equity stripped, only to let the buoyant sector of the market replenish, and then the whole process repeats itself...

vaberella

(24,634 posts)
3. Anyone keeping on top of the news would know it has any and all to do with Spain.
Thu Apr 19, 2012, 09:20 PM
Apr 2012

Greece is in dire situations after Greece. Spain is about to go through a similar end as Greece is and it's causing market unrest. The United States is not always the most important player in the game here. All of the EU and non EU members in Europe went through a similar economic crisis as we did. When EU markets undergo disaster since they are a heavy weight like Britain and the United States in the economic structure, the EU becomes destabilized and then drama.

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