Reply #4: There you go, the big boys made money shorting stocks over

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the debt ceiling BS either way. If we would have defaulted they would have made billions. But damn, they settled up so the gurus talked the market down over the last several days and settled for a smaller windfall. In the meantime small investors bailed out and took their loses. There was a better jobs report than they anticipated so now the big boys make money on the rally. Americans are fleeced again by Wall Street. It's time to go back to jacking up the oil prices I suppose. Internet trading has brought the cost of trading down to nearly zero and encouraged this kind of BS. There could be a $20 tax on all trades and they would still be far cheaper than a few years ago. I would bet they could balance the budget on that tax alone.