Something brought up awhile back made me think of this naked short area. If in fact the large hedge companies can lease 70% of many peoples stocks, how can you tell the real culprits? Yes some have been blatant. But the fact of the matter is how many leases are being run by these short positions? And who is getting the major portion of them? I know TD ameritrade has been one to issue leased stocks and I am sure many more. So the manipulation is carried over by more than a J.P. Morgan or other central bank. But hey if the government is going to wiretap the whole country they should have answers, shouldn't they?

Ya right! They already know. But when you can fomulate deals to monopolize companies as a government official ,than become one of the top CEO's 2 weeks later what surprises me? Nothing. I was just trying to calculate how much money is lost just in nickels and pennies in the last decade alone and my mind is boggled with the math our so called economists know. Just a estimate but take a penny. For what it costs to make this clad zinc pretty lincoln penny we have lost in the neighborhood of 100 billion dollars. Nickels which cost twice as much to make ,well at least 18 billion that I figured out so far.

With this kind of logic it is a continuing loss in almost every category the government is involved in. I mean what do you think it cost medicaid for each aspirin you take in the hospital? Go ahead guess? And my final thought for right now. If Tiny Tim is expecting any help from scrooge he might as well forget it. Because Scrooge doesn't exist. Americans and others do and the word you should be using Tiny Tim is the government scewed us. The old saying a penny for your thoughts is only worth half of what you are thinking by any accounting standard.