Nothing is perfect. Greed has many levels. There are always bad political apples, business cycles, dot com episodes, market bubbles that bust, foreign crisis, hurricanes, tornados, and on and on. It’s not the crisis that shows the character of a country, rather how the country handles the crisis.

It’s fair to say that the United States has supported the world throughout history. The rebuilding of Germany, Japan, countless third world countries, and Europe in general. Our bounty has been their bounty. China has caught on to creating wealth to enjoy life to the fullest, why not attack them?

There is no problem with “rich” people. They are the ones that create wealth, provide jobs, new technology and innovation. If Dick wants two sun valley houses that means more wealth is being created AND DISTRIBUTED throughout society. Nothing wrong with that.

What do POOR people need? RICH people.

There is something wrong with greed when you profit from something that is going to explode at a later date and you know it. Dont worry u will be paying for Dicks sun valley house.

The United States keeps countries like Canada on the map. The rest of the world too.

There’s nothing wrong with greed. Its the fuel for progression. The world learns everything from the progressive and innovative United States. We’re world leaders.

The United States government is “of the people, by the people, for the people”. That means the “people” of the United States the government. And that’s how we are, we help each other out through crisis. There is no them and us, just we.

The United States isn’t lucky, there’s a reason the world pegs to the dollar. It’s called value. When your country’s currency is more valuable in real assets then it will be changed.

Canada needs to open a can of patriotism. Get out of the snow, it’s freezing your brains.

You can analyze the current economic crisis until you’re blue in the face, but the fact remains that good old fashioned greed is ultimately to blame. The United States is very lucky right now that its currency is the market standard, because were that not the case it would be, for lack of a better term, utterly fucked.

Move to Canada and trade the TSX. Might as well get free health care if u are going to live in a socialist country.

Now I’m stuck planning a new strategy… any suggestions? This is nuts.

Think about your Apple stock. See how much you valued it? You sold it because it went down and you were afraid it would go down further.

People generally sell stock for three reasons
1) Take profits after a run
2) Fear of losses
3) Speculating on the company (short sellers)

Strike number 3, and number 2 will pretty much disappear. Greed will take care of number 1. Bubble.