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One Possible Explanation for the January Stock-Market Fall

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Red Jahncke argues that the recent drop in U.S. stock markets may be a delayed response to a tax change:In late 2012, investors sold huge amounts of investments with long-term capital gains to take advantage of the expiring 15% “Bush” long-term capital-gains tax rate before the current 23.8% rate for higher-income investors took effect […]

February 4, 2014 ByStephen J. Dubner countries, current, delicious, facebook, fueled-by-stock, jahncke, linkedin, market, street, street-journal, that-the-recent, year Comments Off read more

Scott Adams Blog: Of Course the Stock Market is Rigged 01/24/2014

As I watch the stock markets melt down this week, I think back to my earlier post in which I made the case that manipulation in any field will always occur when you have these conditions:1. Huge potential profit2. Small chance of getting caught3. Easy to do I’ll add a fourth element today: […]

January 24, 2014 Byunknown case, goals, learn, made-the-case, media-by-buying, social-media, stock, that-the-recent Comments Off read more