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The Dummy's Guide to the U.S. Financial Crisis

Is it just me, or are the stock prices of too many super-healthy companies ( increasing- sales-and-profits-no-m... ) being gradually brought down to rediculously low P/E ratios ? I'm a slow learner and finder of information, but the answer keeps coming back as the ever-increasing hedge fund companies that have bought in and are short-selling like sharks in a fish farm. True,
they have been eliminated from S.S. on certain stocks, but that's only
caused them to go out into fresh waters. I am asking, if this activity isn't brought under control across the board, i.e., limited volume, limited short sells as a percentage of holdings, etc., are we stuck in a quicksand of market averages that will keep being be pulled down to current levels for two or three years to come ( if we don't "crash" before then ) ?