It seems like whenever the news is good, the stock market tanks. Unemployment down? Stocks plummet. Wages up? Stocks plummet. Orders for durable goods up? Stocks plummet. New home starts up? Stocks plummet. And now the new administration gets a stimulus package stuffed with tax cuts through the senate . . . and stocks plummet.
Wonkette today asks a damn good question: what do Wall Street traders want?
Is Geithner, or Obama, or Allah, supposed to wave a lightsaber in the general direction of Wall Street and repeat three times, “I now pronounce the Dow at 15,000,” in German, and everybody gets a “bank error in your favor” box of gold doubloons and busloads of actual zombies from the Fort Detrick voodoo laboratory start banging on the doors of every stucco shitbox from the Florida panhandle to the San Diego suburbs with signed cash offers of $575,000?
Of course if that were to actually happen . . . stocks would plummet.
I asked this once before: isn’t it time we do something about these un-American traitors?
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