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The 777 Point Collapse

The House defeated the $700 billion bailout plan today and the Dow Jones responded by dropping 777 points–777.68 to be exact. This was the largest single day drop ever. Analyst and politicians may start blaming the people for being non-supportive of this bill but, the market had to fall. It was up or held steady because of speculation that a bailout was coming and due to the naked short selling bans. The market is now merely doing what it is supposed to do: find equilibrium.

Welcome to American Socialism

I hate all kinds of central planning. I love free markets. The actions of the United States government in this past week and in the past months since our financial system have started its collapse has been the definition of socialism. Our politicians keep telling us that this is a necessary evil. It has to be done in order to protect our savings, our money, our economy. The reality is that they are destroying our savings, our money and our economy.