Some information what probably will surprise most of you.

Simple question highlighting the interest of the piece, since their highs, which country's stock market has lost the most value?



Emerging Markets Sink 'Bubble in Risk Taking' Gets Unwound Sonders Says: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance

Once the hottest game in town, emerging market stocks have cooled considerably


No surprise emerging markets are much more volatile by nature. And emerging markets are prone to bundled deals sold to them by the US market. They believed incorrectly that buying into the US market was a benefit for their people.................. And now they have been taught that was dead wrong thinking.

What the article doesn't talk about is the fact that emerging markets will have learned their lesson from this. They will decouple from the US market as we recover and the US will see little support from other world markets for a long , long time.

I take it you didn't watch the video. Also, you really have no idea what you are talking about. A lot of the problem in the US market is BECAUSE of foreign investment. As Greenspan said about who lost during the NASDAQ meltdown, European Life Insurance Companies. The big losers in the US real estate meltdown will also be foreign players.

Talking about decoupling is ignorant beyond belief. Seriously Peach, has the whole globalization movement missed you? Bemoan it all you want, but that train has long since left the station.

Your the one that has no idea what your talking about. I am a loan officer and a certified financial councilor who owned a home sales center for 15 years and now work part time for a newspaper in advertising.

I have served two terms as president of our local chamber of commerce.

I know a little something about what is going on here.

It appears soho it is you who do not.

No you don't. Main Street is not Wall Street Peach, treating them as the same is a sign of ignorance.

I am not belittling your personal financial experience. You probably do pretty well for yourself and can give pretty good advice in that arena. However, such experience ends with the individual. When you switch from Micro to Marco economics, your assumptions have to change.

Oh excuse me Soho your suggesting it is fine for Paulson to pay above market prices to bail out wall street.

I think your the one who needs a lesson in economics. Starting with what is good for main street not wall street.

This mess has already happened. Just because its happened we are headed for a deep deep recession lasting at least 2 years possibly more. Just because this has already happened many more people will be laid off and more families will loose homes and the economy will slow even further.


Their wall street bail out will not do a thing to get the economy going again.............not a thing.

But we can stem the tide of this by the government becoming the lender of last resort to good commercial banks who did not get involved in this mess. 5/3rd, Bank of America and others. We have control of Fannie and freddie now so that gives the mortgage sector capital through good commercial banks. And we can start a new group to capitalize such banks for car loans and credit of all kinds.

No matter what we do with wall street the economy is in for a long , long recession. I say let them fall and lets get about the business of restructuring a economy that makes sense with appropriate regulations.

No sense in giving thiefs money we can use to build a better economy. Especially when its taxpayer money.

Ok, expert in global economics, riddle us this:

Why would any foreign entity, having been burned by US bankers and US brokers promising risk free investments because of hedges negating the risk, invest in any "innovative risk free" security sold by US bankers and US brokers?

If they don't use the cash from exporting to the US to buy such mortgage backed bonds, what will they buy with the cash?

And who will buy the bonds to make mortgages possible in the US?