John Inman

A sign of healing? For much of the past year, even the largest companies found it difficult - if not impossible - to raise fresh money. Now the floodgates are open: May is already the busiest month ever for share offerings, and buyers are lapping it up.

Conspiracy theory time: the gov't knew that corporations didn't have the capital to make it through the long-lasting downturn, so they pumped up the market so companies could do stock offerings to recapitalize, without having to go back to the gov't for a bailout.

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