Originally Posted by
atpwannabe
Frankly, I'd rather see some bailouts and more gov't control than to have the financial markets and the economy as a whole implode on its self.
It's just a false feeling that this helps the market. By stepping in the gov't is basically creating a "false inflation" on the value of all these financials. What happens when the bailout money dries up? What happens when the short ban is lifted? That inflation will be called into play and those stocks will dive back down to where they are and should be. Debt just doesn't disappear. They can move it all they want but it still exists. So when it dives back down now were up to 11.3 trillion in debt and even worse off.