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It appears that the Dow Jones dived 400 points upon the news of passign the bailout bill. Maybe Wall Street did not see much of "confidence building" in lawmakers' flip flop. Or maybe "rank-and-file" traders had a few days of reflection, and concluded that not much of those $700bln will trickle down even to them, and it would be time to direct tax money to real economy.

Or maybe Wallstreet developed a nasty response to fouls that blindly listen to them. When South Africa (under Mbeki) did its best to please investors, or the 1997 Asia was pressed to adopted "wonder measures" of IMF, the Wall street did not show much benevolence anyway.

by das monde on Sat Oct 4th, 2008 at 03:21:52 AM EST
Good points.  Thanks for making them.
by danps (dan at pruningshears (dot) us) on Sat Oct 4th, 2008 at 05:29:52 AM EST
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