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Will Gamestop stop the game of Wall Street?

When the rich do it, it’s smart and capitalism at work. When the masses do it- it’s an affront to the billionaires. A wealthy friend who said “The small investors are doing the same thing the Wall Street/hedge fund people have been doing for years. The Wall Street/hedge fund people got caught on the wrong Read More

When Wall Street destroys hope

There have been more than a few jokers on Wall Street who made over a billion dollars in a year as “hedge fund traders.” If you wonder where your home values went, your pension money went, or why your city can’t figure out how to pay for street lights- if your IQ is bigger than Read More

The Wall Street Casino isn’t playing with a full deck

Yesterday the market went into a wild tailspin- pulled out- then is back to swinging like a pendulum. This isn’t anything about “investing” in companies- this is all about betting on horses- and that’s a stupid way to manage an economy. Really- horses and stocks aren’t connected to a predictable financial reality- the one that’s Read More

Dayton Grassroots Daily Show v9: Wall Street vs Breadbasket of the World

We’re still working out a format. This was a total ad-lib, thanks to our “cameraman” pushing record before we’d figured out what to talk about. Ends up- Afghanistan, the perils of a Wall Street driven economy- and where will the world get it’s food in the future (hint, Ohio used to be part of “The Read More

High frequency trading on Wall Street- and why it should worry us all

On the average day on Wall Street these days, more trades are executed than the sum total of trades in 1960. Sure, technology has made trading easier- but, as far as I know- the rules of investing haven’t changed that much. Investing is supposed to be how you make money on Wall Street- that’s why Read More

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