The entire key to your argument is the word 'mechanism'. You assume that such a thing exists. Why is it that we believe in market forces up until the point they do something we don't like and/or cant explain. Oil prices have risen dramatically and then fallen right back before. Quite simply, they were unsustainable at that price. Runs on the banks have occurred many many times in the past. The reasons are complex and many. But what they aren't is conspiracy - which is what you are implying.
< Dazzle me, Geoff. Educate me.> Until you wind back the rhetoric and cut back on the paranoia it is impossible to 'educate' or even debate you. At the moment your 'soapbox' is so far away from the rest of us that you cant hear us. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Calco Sent: Thursday, 12 February 2009 7:52 AM To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: [OT] Pure Unadulterated Insanity > Is there any point in talking to you about the 'house of cards' that > was > built in the preceding years that made the collapse inevitable or would > you > prefer short-term politically motivated rants and raves that are > utterly > devoid of fact or perspective? Speaking for myself, I have been clear that this has been a bipartisan effort over the last 40 years or more. So stop with the "are you all so mindlessly partisan" red herrings. Dazzle me, Geoff. Educate me. Who ran on the banks on Sept 18, 2008, and yanked half a trillion dollars from US money markets in a mere 2 hours? Why did they do it? Who increased the cost of oil to $145/barrel, and then let the market drop them back to $40/barrel right after the election? Whom did that benefit? By what mechanism did they manage to pull that off? - Bob [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
