[expat_panama]

If McCain was elected, the situation would likely be just as grim.

Agreed.

People are forgetting which is the dog and which is the tail, and it's politics that reacts to markets and not the other way around.  OK, we hear (supposedly) intelligent people like Rush saying "screw the markets", but while politics is all well and good it has its place.  Sometimes I think the way these political hacks strut that it's like hearing religious freaks ranting.

[RipSawyer]

People are forgetting which is the dog and which is the tail, and it’s politics that reacts to markets and not the other way around.
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What are you saying? Politics react to markets and markets also react to politics, it is like a tennis match, it isn’t just one way.