"If you don't do anything else this month, you need to go watch this special on how rigged the so-called "free" markets are. It's clear, concise, amusing in a wry, quirky way...and terribly sad, as it shows that it is simple to explain all this in a comprehensible manner, and yet it isn't by the supposedly fair US media. Commentator Max Keiser does a remarkable job in describing how completely ugly this is, and arrives at the same conclusion I did - playing in a rigged game is a fool's errand." - Bob O'Brien's Sanity Check
Free markets are meant to be fair, but are they really?
The smallest investor in the stock market is meant to face the same odds as the richest, and that is what makes free markets free.
Free markets are also meant to provide all participants with the same information about stocks, bonds, and currencies - that way all the investors have an equal chance of making a profit.
The market also allows investors to pool their resources into mutual or hedge funds, so they can punch way above their weight.
Whereas mutual funds are weighted in favour of the small investor, and are highly regulated, hedge funds are far riskier products and are weighted in favour of wealthy people who are seen as sophisticated enough to take risks that ordinary investors cannot. They are hardly regulated at all - so that everybody comes out of the market a supposed winner.
In Max Keiser's "viewpoint" film for Al Jazeera English, he argues that hedge and mutual funds are manipulated to benefit brokers, bankers and the richest investors, to the detriment of those with less power and less money.
He explains his view that free markets are not in fact free or fair, but in fact rigged – he thinks that even governments have a finger in the free market pie.
Watch the film, "Rigged Markets" for Aljazeera English.
Part one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z66kmPRl5Y
Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3H6uEyR66M
Learn more at http://www.maxkeiser.com
The smallest investor in the stock market is meant to face the same odds as the richest, and that is what makes free markets free.
Free markets are also meant to provide all participants with the same information about stocks, bonds, and currencies - that way all the investors have an equal chance of making a profit.
The market also allows investors to pool their resources into mutual or hedge funds, so they can punch way above their weight.
Whereas mutual funds are weighted in favour of the small investor, and are highly regulated, hedge funds are far riskier products and are weighted in favour of wealthy people who are seen as sophisticated enough to take risks that ordinary investors cannot. They are hardly regulated at all - so that everybody comes out of the market a supposed winner.
In Max Keiser's "viewpoint" film for Al Jazeera English, he argues that hedge and mutual funds are manipulated to benefit brokers, bankers and the richest investors, to the detriment of those with less power and less money.
He explains his view that free markets are not in fact free or fair, but in fact rigged – he thinks that even governments have a finger in the free market pie.
Watch the film, "Rigged Markets" for Aljazeera English.
Part one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z66kmPRl5Y Part two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3H6uEyR66M Learn more at
http://www.maxkeiser.com
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Max Keiser,Al Jazeera promotePenny Stock Fraud
29.06.2007 02:18
Max Keiser,Al Jazeera promotePenny Stock Fraud
Max Keiser ,Al Jazeera,Qatar promote Naked U.S. Penny Stock Fraud
Max Keiser removed from wikipedia:
News:Self promoter Max Keiser who uses the world wide internet Al Jazeera and now ireland.indymedia.org to promote a fraudulent
'naked short selling' claim for worthless fraudulent penny U.S. penny stocks such as Adnan Kashoggi's GenesisIntermedia has had his self serving biography,(that hides more than it reveals), removed from wikipedia.
Don't be the last to realise this guy is trying to use you to promote a U.S. penny stock fraud of international proportions.Has anyone in Ireland or the UK or Europe heard of the claim' naked short selling' being used to explain the collapse in price of stocks there or elsewhere in Europe ? If so I wish you would contact me.So far to my knowledge this has been a claim specific to worthless fraudulent U.S. penny stocks.Any information you can provide would help my investigation.
You can be assured Mr.Max Keiser would never debate me or answer my questions regarding his fraudulent claim,using Al Jazeera as his mouthpiece,as to which specific stocks he claims to be victims of 'naked shorting' .Who has ever used the term 'naked shorting' or 'naked short selling' outside of U.S. penny stock promoters after promoting and then dumping or selling millions or billions of worthless shares to defrauded investors ! ? And neither Al Jazeera nor Mr.Keiser has ever answered my question regarding the Arabic translation for 'naked shorting' and when it first entered into Arabic stock or 'securities' vocabulary.And why does Ireland Indymedia censor criticism of Max Keiser a known Wall Street stock promoter ?
I'm greatly saddened Ireland Indymedia has fallen for Mad Max's and Al Jazeera's and international U.S.penny stock criminals' scam without investigating their source,i.e.-Max Keiser. At present the New Zealand passport office has hired a questionable U.S. based group
called Cryptometrics that is planning a 'merger' with JAGH or Jag Media Holdings,who are also known to have made and continue to make this fraudulent claim while dumping worthless shares on investors ! Come on Ireland Indymedia we expect more of you and your Al Jazeera reporter than this !
Sure I would appreciate my reply to Mr.Keiser to remain posted on ireland.indymedia but if you know enough to take sides in this debate you might answer some of my queries or request that Max Keiser defend his,in my opinion,erroneous 'naked short selling' thesis.
Here is link to ireland.indymedia.org post by the Max Keiser-Al Jazeera con artists.The above was only written after ireland.indymedia removed my criticism posted on indymedias before Max Keiser began his dirty little 'naked shorting' misinformation on ireland.indymedia.Note that while I was a naive investor defrauded by the scam Al Jazeera and Max Keiser promote, Mr.Keiser is an admitted Wall Street insider and thus 'securities' scam 'professional'.:
Max Keiser for AJE: Market Manipulation, Naked Short Selling and Hedge Funds
international | consumer issues | other press Monday June 25, 2007 10:11 by MaxKeiser.com
"An Absolutely Amazing and Definitive Video Special"
Sincerely,
Tony Ryals
Tony Ryals
e-mail:
endoscam@lycos.com
tony ryals or riled?
01.07.2007 15:21
riqquintano
Neither Max Keiser nor Al Jazeera answer questions..
02.07.2007 02:07
You can be assured Mr. Max Keiser would never debate me or answer my questions regarding his fraudulent claim,using Al Jazeera as his mouthpiece,as to which specific stocks he claims to be victims of 'naked shorting' .Who has ever used the term 'naked shorting' or 'naked short selling' outside of U.S. penny stock promoters after promoting and then dumping or selling millions or billions of worthless shares to defrauded investors and probably use the unaudited shares for money laundering with U.S. SEC's knowledge ! ?
And neither Al Jazeera nor Mr.Keiser has ever answered my question regarding the Arabic translation for 'naked shorting' and when it first entered into Arabic stock or 'securities' vocabulary.
Sincerely,
Tony Ryals
Tony Ryals
e-mail:
endoscam@lycos.com