If All Are Equal

Ok, now markets are falling, people are selling and S&P is downgrading.

So what happens if all becomes equal. In a world full of beggars who will be the king?

The one with the big stick of course!

So now we have two countries with big sticks. One just got downgraded and the other, his major money lender.

The days of mutual destruction via nukes or nuclear deterrent, is more or less over.
Today, its the world of mutual economic benefit or disaster.

No one county in this world can afford another to default.
Perhaps we have arrived at some kind of a yin and yang, night and day equilibrium economically.

24 Hours

The markets move these days in an almost continuous cycle. One day up and one day down. So tell me what change between the 5-8 hours that we spend sleeping and the next ?

You can say information drives the market but information in general is more or less readily available. With all the talking heads on TV telling you all kinds of *news* and breaking developments.

So what drives it? Fear? If all funds stop investing, what would the money do? In the first place, has anyone asked himself/herself where the funds come from ?

Unless the cycle stops - between spending and earning, the markets will just carry on.