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Hedge Funds, Politics, and the Market Crash

February 3, 2009 : Permalink

American Thinker – There are several culprits in the recent market crash, but one key source of the problem has hitherto escaped attention: an economic index that can be easily manipulated by hedge funds and whose gyrations have shaken the […]

Five Myths About the Election and the Stock Market

October 29, 2008 : Permalink

BusinessWeek – For the first time in 76 years, a financial crisis is occurring at the same time as a Presidential election. Based on recent polls, the coincidence seems to have boosted the chances that Illinois Senator Byearack Obama, the […]