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Hedge funds control free markets

http://www.timesgazette.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=156341

The title of this article is interesting. We often hear that we need to protect our free markets, especially here in the US. Regulations stifle this.

The ones that preach this are usually multi-millionaires, or billionaires who have an invested interest in what they call a free market...............in fact a free market means a level playing field, at best its a farce.............hedgefunds control half of the US market and half of the London exchange at the very least. Because the industry has so much capital, and so much of the wealth under their control only when they know its relatively a safe bet will they pony up some big bucks, other than this they use very little of their capital, they don't have to they have it to back up what ever they want, and shortselling is a borrowed transaction, the life blood of hedgefunds.