Selling Fear to Investors: Who is a small Investor to trust?- - How About John Stewart from the Daily Show

POINT ROBERTS, Aug. 18, 2011 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a global investor research portal for independent investors issues the following commentary on recent market activity and developments. As investors face the daily craziness created in the markets by Government, institutions, regulators and media – there is only one voice of reason that makes sense to follow, John Stewart of the Daily Show.

Yes investors – that is the state of where things are at. If you want to know the truth or make sense of a mad world, watch episodes like this:
Monday August 8, 2011
Rise of the Planet of the AAs
The U.S. gets downgraded, so financial institutions are flushing their money out of stocks like s**t from a caffeinated goose.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-8-2011/rise-of-the-planet-of-the-aas

Global investors have been held hostage to recent developments that have had catastrophic impact on the markets and economy and have had no power other than to sit and wait it out.
The media fills investors with fear as it focuses on each story in a mass media frenzy filling investors with nightmarish headlines to go to sleep and wake up to each day .

The only thing investors can count on each day is that there is nothing and no authority to count on. Investors need to stand up collectively and say they are mad as hell and aren’t taking it anymore. Real estate values have plummeted and individuals have lost their homes or any equity value and now investors all over the world have lost significant value in their equities.

And why? Because the so called best of the best, the smartest in world have taken us all down a path to hell and we have all lost the majority of our net worth and were held powerless as it all happened.

If one were a paranoid conspiracy theory advocate, it would be easy to sell the idea that this was a manipulated series of events.

The Debt Ceiling deadline debate going to last minute deadlines caused global stock markets reacts to lack of leadership in the US. I thought we were taught as kids not to do our homework last minute? What kind of a role of leadership is it for the so called strongest Country in the world to let things get so out of control that it gets down to final days and hours to resolve a self inflicted crisis?

Think of the role S&P has played in the financial crisis of the past few years. S&P Downgrades US AAA rating and market crashes and now the SEC is investigating the downgrade and looking at trading that took place around it. Now more info comes out on S&P that they were already under investigation by the Justice Department to determine whether their influence on boosting ratings on mortgage securities that later turned out to be toxic, was a key factor in the melt down in 2008.

So S&P was under investigation already but still had the power to shake global markets?

And now as the SEC investigates S&P for the downgrade, investors have to read headlines that the SEC itself is under investigation.


From the New York Times-
S.E.C. Files Were Illegally Destroyed, Lawyer Says By EDWARD WYATT
Published: August 17, 2011

WASHINGTON — An enforcement lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission says that the agency illegally destroyed files and documents related to thousands of early-stage investigations over the last 20 years, according to information released Wednesday by Congressional investigators.

The destroyed files comprise records of at least 9,000 preliminary inquiries into matters involving notorious individuals like Bernard L. Madoff, as well as several major Wall Street firms that later were the subject of scrutiny after the 2008 financial crisis, including Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and Bank of America.

The S.E.C. is the very agency that is charged with making sure that Wall Street firms retain records of their own activities, and has brought numerous enforcement cases against firms for failing to do so. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/business/sec-illegally-destroyed-documents-whistle-blower-alleges.html

So who do we turn to? My bet is John Steward or myself, or how about you, or your dog. Betting on Government, institutions, regulators has cost us most of what we owned!

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