777 Wall Street drop yesterday was the "bloody finger" cut from the abductee

[SoCalDem]

and mailed to the frantic "parents"..

Now the uptick, is a reminder that "all can be good again"..if only.....

Will another "finger" arrive in the mail, or will the frantic "parents" pony up some cash?

[panAmerican]

1. Spot on!

[earthside]

2. Bailout Obviously Unnecessary.

Almost 500 points up on the Dow today.

Sinking the taxpayers nearly a trillion dollars in debt is obviously unnecessary.

It looks to me like Wall Street can take care of itself.

[tavalon]

16. I'm beginning to believe that some other fix is needed rather than a bailout

That said, don't expose your ignorance by pretending that today's Dead Man Bounce was, in any way, indicative of Wall Street's wellbeing. Market volatility does not equal market recovery.

[Greyhound]

3. Apt analogy. n/t

:kick: & R

[Odin2005]

4. Bull.

sharp drops are often followed by increases because of bargain-hunting.

This nonsense about the ups and downs of the stock market being a conspiracy to scare politicians is moronic.

[tridim]

5. "I will not abide another toe."

I swear there's a Big Lebowski quote for every situation. :)

[BrklynLiberal]

6. If not a kidnapping for ransom, it is outright blackmail...

[Festivito]

7. Oil made its largest one day spike ever!11111!!!11

Oh, yeah, then it went back down.

But, the media did not report that part!!11!!11!1!!11!!

Oil price was the ransom note that looked a lot like the victim's dad's handwriting.

[kimmerspixelated]

8. SOCALDEM!

I love you! You make me laugh and you're just so, so, so, brilliant!

[SoCalDem]

10. Love you right back

:loveya:

[tjwash]

9. More like a spoiled fucking brat throwing a temper tantrum in the grocery store.

And mom is just standing there going..."now Spalding, stop throwing the things off the shelves on to the aisle..."

[Junkdrawer]

11. Seriously..who sells in the middle of a panic? Especially one...

my dog knew would be a one day wonder? Are they saying pros did that? :shrug:

I told my wife yesterday "If I were a short term trader, I'd be looking for bargains Tuesday morning."

[IronLionZion]

12. The Dow Jones Ind. Avg. went up 485 points today

what do you make of that?

[tjwash]

13. Gimme a "G"...Gimme an "R"...gimme an "E", an "E", and a "D"Whats that spell?

Greed...Greed...yaaaaaay GREED!!

Buncha fat cat traders buying back the stocks they dumped yesterday, and at a bargain to boot. They get to profit twice from their seedy market manipulations. If any of us tried that shit they would toss us in prison and throw away the keys. Ah well...That's what you call having things tilted in your favor. No matter what happens, things are rigged for the robber-barons and against us squalid peasants.

[SoCalDem]

14. You finally buy that lovely gray tweed coat and the very next day it's 50% off, so

you take it back to the store for a refund, and a 1/2 hour later you go and buy it back for 50% off.. Doesn't every woman out here understand that :rofl:


disclaimer:..many stores these days DO have a policy of refunding the difference if something goes on sale soon after you bought it, but they didn't used to :)

[tavalon]

17. Dead Man's Bounce

[TexasObserver]

15. Sadly, politics now is, in fact, largely performance art.

The markets are almost entirely run by fear and hope, and the Bush political operatives and the Complicit Media's nonstop barrage of instructions on how we are supposed to feel about, are both superb at spinning the storyline.

Look at the people here who adopt the entire meme floated by Bush/Paulson, who absolutely believe we're on the verge of a Depression. They have bought into it hook, line and sinker. FEAR is what motivates them. They are people who are easily scared and when frightened, lash out at those around them, as we see here.

This thing is largely contrived, right down to the timing and the manipulation of liquidity by the Fed, the Treasury, and other government or Fed functionaries.