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House prices are rising again in many countries

After the crash
Jan 5th 2010
From Economist.com
WHEN The Economist last took stock of house prices across the globe, prices were falling in all but two countries. Three months later, prices are now rising in a total of six count… carry on reading.

Wall Street, programmed trading, bad

What do we want?
Stock prices having some kind of positive relationship with the value of the underlying assets.
What do we have?
Stock prices based on fictitious hypertrading programs that bid up the price like a paid shill on e bay.
Stock price hav… carry on reading.