Can the markets be any more greased than they were this Friday by Ben and Hank? You have Ben showing he hasn't met a printing press he didn't like, and Hank putting out statements that's he gonna be the backstop for a bunch of idiot homeowners who bought when they should have rented. The funny thing is that Ben and Hank probably telegraphed all this nonsense to their Wall Street friends on Wednesday (when the market rocketed huge) before they let out the news to the public. Can manipulation get any more blatant?
Hank is Hank Paulson, Treasury secretary, the guy who wants to bail out the dumb who went with ARMs and are now going to have to pay real interest rates instead of the teaser rates.