Archive for the ‘stock market’ tag

Play Market Guesser   1 comment

Posted at 3:29 pm in Random

This is a fun little game. You try to guess how a stock is going to perform. It makes me not want to invest any money into the stock market. I have included a screen shot to prove that sometimes they do go up in value.

Written by Kyle on October 16th, 2008

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Is the Stock Market Crashing?   3 comments

Posted at 2:48 pm in Politics

The bailout has failed to be passed and the stock market has dropped 600 points.

What you could do with $700,000,000,000

  • Give every person in the US $2,300 or give every household $6,200.
  • Pay the income taxes of every American who makes $500,000 or less a year.
  • Fully fund the Defense, Treasury, Education, State Veterans Affairs and Interior departments next year, as well as NASA.
  • Buy gasoline for every car in the US for 16 months.
  • Buy every NFL, NBA, and MLB team and build each one a new stadium - and pay your players $191 million a piece for a year
  • Create the 17th largest economy in the world - roughly equal to that of the Netherlands.
  • Or you could pay off just 7% of the $9.8 trillion national debt.

OR you could nationalize some mortgage related debt (aka “impaired assets”) that banks, credit unions, and pension funds hold. Using our tax dollars, of course. (via What I Learned)

A lot of people are upset over this whole thing. Some people are even protesting in front of Wall Street:

Written by Kyle on September 29th, 2008

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