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Joe reality checking Twitler this morning (Original Post) bigtree Jun 2020 OP
I believe the market is rigged. cilla4progress Jun 2020 #1
+1, few if any of the gargantuan leg ups are organic and most are made during off hours. Its .... uponit7771 Jun 2020 #3
Leg ups? cilla4progress Jun 2020 #5
those 2 - 5% increases in the indexes when bad news would come out weren't natural and the trading uponit7771 Jun 2020 #6
Joe needs to ask how many trillions has he pumped into the markets GusFring Jun 2020 #2
Yep. cilla4progress Jun 2020 #4
No, markets aren't rigged, their shareholders are simply buying back their stocks instead of ... SWBTATTReg Jun 2020 #7
That plus they have no other place gibraltar72 Jun 2020 #9
Sting Him Harder ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #8
You know PatSeg Jun 2020 #10
& it IS BLOTUS' fault they don't have jobs now. Cha Jun 2020 #11

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
3. +1, few if any of the gargantuan leg ups are organic and most are made during off hours. Its ....
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 11:49 AM
Jun 2020

... disgusting to watch 25% lower GDP activity come out and the market go up.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
6. those 2 - 5% increases in the indexes when bad news would come out weren't natural and the trading
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 11:58 AM
Jun 2020

... was made before the start of the trading day for a lot of them as if someone passes someone else a lot of insider information.

There were like 10 of them ... disgusting

SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)
7. No, markets aren't rigged, their shareholders are simply buying back their stocks instead of ...
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 12:08 PM
Jun 2020

giving workers better benefits and/or better pay. And this is all rump has to say? Idiot. Again, only concerned w/ the stock markets than the CV epidemic, the economic morass that so many of us find ourselves in, etc. Idiot. Your day is coming in Nov. 2020 and you will finally be out of office come 1/2021.

Why don't you crawl back to your bunker and pop some more pills?

gibraltar72

(7,503 posts)
9. That plus they have no other place
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 01:23 PM
Jun 2020

to put the money the Fed just invented and gave them. It is the market of the bigger fool. Someone will buy next week at a higher price. One day they run out of fools.

ProfessorGAC

(64,995 posts)
8. Sting Him Harder
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 12:54 PM
Jun 2020

UE is 4 times greater than when Obama left office. 3.5% in November 2016. 13-16% today!
Hey Donnie-boy! Obama was way better for the economy!
He'd love hearing that!

PatSeg

(47,399 posts)
10. You know
Tue Jun 9, 2020, 01:38 PM
Jun 2020

I think that's what we should start calling Joe - "Joe Reality"! Actually that's how I read the subject line at first.

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