P. Fritz wrote:
There is not a totally free market as long as guvmint regulations and tax
policy are involved.


That's true, but it can't really overturn the laws of supply & demand
totally unless the gov't squashes market forces... which is usually both
obvious and disastrous.

So, should we take it that you're also of the opinion that some kind of
secret pro-Clinton committee used some kind of evil mind control to make
people bid up the prices of dot-bomb stocks during the late 1990s? Where
was the Republican controlled Congress during this process?

DSK