Comments on: Market Follies http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/market-follies/ Facts, Thoughts, and Commentary Fri, 24 May 2013 19:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Kurman http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/market-follies/#comment-85702 John Kurman Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:54:12 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=3534#comment-85702 Question, perhaps unrelated, but given that some people are starting to realize how many Defense jobs will be lost, could this be a reason for the slide (I know, I know, when it comes to stock market, it’s all just-so stories).

Related question to first unrelated question: Have we been in a Defense bubble since 2002? 1982? 1952? (Reading the most excellent “Loser Liberalism” and am now suspecting all growth of the Long Boom was Defense bubble related).

]]> By: Michael http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/market-follies/#comment-85643 Michael Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:35:13 +0000 http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/?p=3534#comment-85643 Hasn’t the MF Global thing pretty much established the fact that the stock market is a casino, not a method of allocating savings?

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