2016 Postmortem

mmonk

(52,589 posts) Tue Jan 12, 2016, 01:59 PM Jan 2016

Simple rule to remember: An unregulated market

is a rigged market. Market fundamentals under a regulated market are safer for individual investors, institutional investors, and all those pension and retirement funds out there.

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Simple rule to remember: An unregulated market (Original Post) mmonk Jan 2016 OP

And an unregulated market is a rigging market - Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #1

Yes. mmonk Jan 2016 #2

Money is power. Regulations are controls on power. Hortensis Jan 2016 #3

Yes. The public interests are then lost mmonk Jan 2016 #4

I wish today's people wondered more WHY Hortensis Jan 2016 #5

Me too. They were put into effect for a reason. mmonk Jan 2016 #6

That's why markets in their quest for deregulation invest in "reform" of educational curriculums. Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #7

Funny how much scarier this one is to me than so Hortensis Jan 2016 #8

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)

1. And an unregulated market is a rigging market -

Reply to mmonk (Original post)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 02:03 PM

Jan 2016

as it will 'invest' in the composition of bodies that have a bearing on the way markets operate.

mmonk

(52,589 posts)

2. Yes.

Reply to Betty Karlson (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 02:05 PM

Jan 2016

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

3. Money is power. Regulations are controls on power.

Reply to mmonk (Original post)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 02:05 PM

Jan 2016

mmonk

(52,589 posts)

4. Yes. The public interests are then lost

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 02:12 PM

Jan 2016

when deregulated.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

5. I wish today's people wondered more WHY

Reply to mmonk (Reply #4)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 05:24 PM

Jan 2016

previous generations felt them necessary. Wondered in lieu of paying attention in high school, of course.

mmonk

(52,589 posts)

6. Me too. They were put into effect for a reason.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #5)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 06:29 PM

Jan 2016

History shows us why.

Betty Karlson

(7,231 posts)

7. That's why markets in their quest for deregulation invest in "reform" of educational curriculums.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 13, 2016, 02:33 AM

Jan 2016

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

8. Funny how much scarier this one is to me than so

Reply to Betty Karlson (Reply #7)

Wed Jan 13, 2016, 08:31 AM

Jan 2016

many other means of attack being used. Long-term investments with potentially catastrophic payoffs, as we're seeing now, actually.

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