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Stock Market Make-Believe

While listening to the news of the bad effects the weak stock markets are having on the major countries of the world and our own economy, I got to thinking: all it is is electronic messages zipping through the ether, trading make-believe money that appears only as figures in those messages and on reports. How is it that all this stuff that doesn’t really exist determines real people’s lives and causes so much anguish?

Just wondering….