[bigdaddy45]

Has the Free Republic been taken over by liberals when I wasn’t paying attention? You know “the markets are rigged, stocks are a rich mans game, etc. etc.”.

Yes, goods and services are being produced. At a profit. Every day. Look around. Look at all the technological advances. Innovation. Creativity. The products that are available to us. You think those products are being created at a loss??

The markets are doing well in spite of Obama, not because of him. But there is money to made in stocks if you buy good companies and hold them over the long term.

[cripplecreek]

I’m the same I’ve always been since years before you arrived.

[Red in Blue PA]

Has the Free Republic been taken over by liberals when I wasn’t paying attention? You know “the markets are rigged, stocks are a rich mans game, etc. etc.”.

I am amazed at the responses here too. There is corruption on Wall Street, but no more so than in any other industry. It simply makes the headlines. There is simply no better investment over the long term than US stocks.

[PAR35]

Some of us have read subversive left-wing propaganda - Like Forbes /s. (And if you don’t know what Forbes is, and has been, then you probably shouldn’t be commenting of a stock thread.)

How The Fed Is Helping To Rig The Stock Market
http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2013/01/30/how-the-fed-is-helping-to-rig-the-stock-market/

And recall when the market took a still not honestly explained sharp drop a few years ago, some of the investors who were burned had their positions unwound, other folks had to eat their losses.