Stock Market Propaganda = 911 Financial Terrorism

Everybody now knows that $147 a barrel oil was a speculative bubble fed by expert propaganda. There was never a shortage of oil yet lies that turned into propaganda and then spouted as expert opinion sent oil into unrealistic levels.

Today we have the same type of intellectual propaganda feeding into short selling derivatives like index fund ETF´s that are leveraged to take a basket of stocks down in double quick time.

If terrorists wanted to destroy the world investment system what better than to get experts to state how dire things will become and use fear based propaganda, rumors and lies that allow short selling speculation to send stocks into a tailspin.

Good stocks will do well in bad economies and bad stocks will do bad in good economies, however ETF short derivatives take the majority of good stocks down with the few bad ones.

GE is a good stock that reflects the heart of America and yet it has been taken down by negative propaganda that focuses on one segment of the company. Its value is worth far more than the stock price and there are a multitude of other stocks trading at values that are lower than their book value.

The only way to regulate an over-leveraged system is to halt all short selling for a while. Bring back the up-tick rule when short selling returns and check who is buying short index ETF´s in large quantities. The time for government action is now