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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2342503, member: 71723&quot;]Well, commercial and investment bankers (since we got rid of Glass-Steagall) basically ARE the market, so I&#039;m not sure why any of that would be unusual.</p><p><br /></p><p>I assume you&#039;re aware that the Fed actively stepping in to the BOND markets is an everyday thing, right? It&#039;s called the &quot;Fed Open Market Committee&quot; and it&#039;s been in the bond markets for many, many decades, not just since 2008. Equities are pretty much allowed to do what they will, unless you&#039;re China.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the U.S., &quot;everybody&quot; knows the economy is not the stock market and the stock market is not the economy, or at least they SHOULD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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