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Media Manipulating Candidates and Stock Market Manipulations

Watching the stock market these days, it’s easy to see by the fluctuations in the market that an SEC investigation into those large corporations manipulating the market with computer buying and selling should be due. These practices will not encourage Joe or Mary citizen to participate. I am amazed by how they take [...]

Democrats really care… or do they?

Talking heads and fat cats are not concerned about gas prices. Most of them live in the city, use cabs, and don’t drive. But a person forced to commute 30 or 40 miles to work is hurting - takes a lot away from the middle class and the poor. The speculators driving [...]

Out, out damn U.N!

Prices of oil rising, enriching terrorist states, making us more insecure and dependent on foreign countries. At least 20% of the price is caused by speculators on the futures market. Seems to me something could be done to alleviate this problem. Hillary made hers on cattle futures. She may even be [...]

Powerful Brokers, Large Corporations, and Gasoline

Does the price of gasoline increase and penalize the consumer another buck per gallon on average because of powerful brokers and large corporation’s real-time computer buying and selling of gas/oil futures? In other words, does GREED pay a lot, and isn’t it one of the Seven Deadly Sins???????

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