Matt Davies for October 20, 2009

How about the ones the prior Republicans W & Crew tossed out in the name of huge profits for the extremely wealthy?

Heck, take it back to Reagan’s deregulation. It’s no accident we started to return to the 1920s style boom-and-bust during his administration. (Note his favorite president was Calvin Coolidge!)

stop pretending Wall St. is the “real” economy. We have to distinguish between two things — the economy and the stock market. The economy is the sum of all goods and services that are produced in the country every day, All the computers and cars and steel and shipment of goods overseas.

The stock market isn’t an economy. It’s a moment-by-moment guess by others about what this company or that company is worth according to all the insider information they can gather. It’s open to manipulation and fraudulent trading that is completely divorced from reality or what is occurring in the real economy.

Time to stop treating Wall St. as the be all to end all or it will be the end all, and all the enders will have flown the coupe for some little island they bought with our proceeds.

Wall Street is a bleeep shoot for millionaires.

Even if stuff regulates itself, doesn’t mean it regulates itself in a way favorable to us.

Evolution regulates itself. It allows everyone to have descendants, more or less healthy and viable, in times of plenty until there’s a famine or an epidemic to get rid of the weakest ones.

Is a crisis to ecomony what an epidemic is to evolution?

I can’t believe the bleep! I should have said Wall Street is a roll of the dice for millionaires

I’m with believecommonsense.