gdoran

A Stimulus Plan to Actually Improve Economy Fundamentals

People lack confidence in purchasing stock. Corporation that do poorly, still reward their CEO's beyound any reason. Stock used to be a relatively safe investment until greed set in big time and resulted in legalized gambling with the futures. SEC must have some authority and hold these folk accountabe.


On Jan 23 10:04 AM whidbey wrote:

> You social engineers know a great deal about how to motivate people,
> but very little about how things get done in business and risk taking.
> Most of the lower paid European executives are running firms that
> would not be of interest to investors in more competitive economies.
> The lower paid EU executives are typically kennel dogs who run "monopolistic
> utilities" to employ people for the central government. Is this what
> you have in mind??
>
> Cap gains at 15% is OK, but better to deregulate the small things,
> the many "regulatory side shows" one must attend to just to make,
> and export pipe, for example. Simplification of government roles
> would go a long ways to making economic recovery feasible. As things
> stand today, we do 24 steps to get a WTO export agreement with China
> for a product that is in demand. This is sort of thing what is killing
> the recovery. And we fear it will get worse, so we are looking to
> Taiwan for our scale up venture.

Four Opinions on OTC Derivatives

This whole area should be illegal. Hopefully, the regulators will see this and eliminate this betting.