jt

Yes, We Can End Market Manipulation

Exactly right. Unfortunately the author is apparently blind to the WAY bigger manipulations. They're not by "traders" or even hedgefunds*...THEY'RE BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT!!!! That's why nothing is ever done, b/c it would expose those with the power within our govt who have abused and broken every market and trading law/rule written...starting with Treasury and its GoldmanSach's CEO bred Secy's of the Treasury and their collusion with the Fed...to the PPT (the acronym for the President's Working Group on Financial Markets)--how many hundreds of "hail-Mary" sudden takeoffs at the end of the trading day have you seen the DOW do, out of seeminly nowhere, after a major breakdown, to keep it from breaking below a critical support line, etc, or just as the Prez was going to speak, or after some new horrendous economic news hits the market...in a completely counterintuitive manner?

And then there's the Fed's Bank...JPMorgain4Elite... ultimate "too big to fail" b/c it basically represents the Fed and the Illuminati world banksters behind them, along with TPTB in the adminstration of "our" govt that use them to rig the markets for their own political purpose of the moment. How many here know that JPM all by its lonesome has a derivative risk (read: DEBT) as we speak of over $100 Trillion!!!!...contras... that with the GDP of the world estimated at around $50Trillion!! And what are all those derivatives aimed at?...mainly commodities...ESPECIAL... GOLD AND SILVER. Why?...b/c commodities...ESPECIAL... GOLD AND SILVER...are the REAL deal in contrast to the toilet paper scam of fiat currency that they, the Fed et al, were given the RIGHT to create out of nothing and loan to We The People at pure profit interest (a right given to them by scumbag paid-off Congressmen and other dirtbag plutocrats in 1913, signed into law by a blackmailed Woodrow Wilson [caught in an affair] who knew he had just unleashed a horrendous financial cancer on his country and lamented the fact).

And then move on to the SEC who refused to investigate Madoff or naked shorting after promising for more than a decade to deal with the latter...to the CFTC who will slap a few $million fines on small-time supposed manipulators while they let JPM carry 95+% of the entire short position on silver (equivalent to more than 20% of all silver produced in a year despite the fact that JPM is not IN the silver mining business...ie, it's not a hedge against market losses) and nearly that great a %age on gold on the CRIMEX!!!!!...and those are supposedly NOT MANIPULATIVE SIZED SHORT POSITIONS??!!!!!!! They'd be the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil CFTC commissioners if the facts had not been presented to them so many times for so long...FACTS THAT COME FROM THEIR OWN AGENCY!!!

Bottom line is who gives a crap whether or not the manipulation at lower levels is dealt with when our own govt and TPTB at the top are not held to any rules but allowed to manipulate FAR beyond anything remotely allowed to the "normal" traders. But it INDEED MUST BE STOPPED!!! jt

The Law of Unintended Consequences: 20th Century and Beyond

Well, the site managed to still butcher the link: it should read, after Smith and without a space _Roth without the three dots which should then be connected to schild and then to .htm

Close all spaces and you have the link.

The Law of Unintended Consequences: 20th Century and Beyond

Interesting thoughts, but IMO naive. You like the words: Ignorance, Stupidity, and Hubris...and also Unintended [ISHU]. But perhaps you and most Americans...and indeed most Worldlngs, esp of the Western World (though not confined to it)...need to consider that they/you/the ?vast majority [=they] are actually more ignorant than even they want to believe. Suppose very little of what has happened in the past few hundred years is a "mistake" brought on by the workings of Dr ISHU? Suppose this has been carefully (I'd accept the word "diabolically" as more accurate) orchestrated for "grander" [as in hurricanes are "grander" than thunderstorms] purposes than each supposedly independent or seemingly unanticipated action with its "unintended" consequences may appear to have produced? Suppose that there is and has been actually a master plan and real persons behind the curtain pulling the cords and levers that absolutely love it when we think of all those items listed above as un-related? (It is said that Satan's "greatest" modern victory was in convincing most of the world that he does not exist.)

It certainly is a more comfortable discussion to call all the above "unintended." That makes us to a degree still Lords of our Universe as we can list them and dismiss them as such. We can point at them, laugh at those involved, or give a condescending "awwwww...too bad"...and then imply how we'd have seen it, like Churchill, and fixed it before it could have had its "unintended consequences."

But I'm going to be one of those cold water guys and say that that's just "too easy." I don't believe it, and I don't believe the evidence allows that conclusion. I believe that the huge majority, if not all, of these seemingly unrelated and serendipitous occurrences were not so, and that the consequences were anything BUT unintended. I believe the evidence, for those who care to study it, will show an unbelievably wealthy and powerful and connected group of individuals, surrounding a particular historical and still very much alive family dynasty, that have been scheming and brainstorming and doing whatever was necessary, at whatever expense, using whatever means necessary, since the late 1700s (and even earlier), to promote a cause that many just refuse to believe is real, though it remains the Charter statement for perhaps the most powerful group in the US...the CFR. If you want the happenings of the last two hundred plus years to make sense, you need to get a more coherent hypothesis than just "unintended consequences." One might start with this link, which will need to be put together to get you there:

http:// www. iamthewitness. com/DarylBradfordSmith... schild. htm

And may I suggest that you read thru it first before forming any "opinions"...most of which are dangerous at best and blind us consistently to the reality staring us in the face like a lion ready to pounce.