Play Market Guesser
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.
Is the Stock Market Crashing?
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: