To say that an employed worker or self employed who makes less then $150,000 ( I didn't use the $250K Obama is talking about) is "someone who refuse to take action to improve their lives." is hardly trueAfter eight years of corporate favoritism, no wonder that the pendulum swung so far left.With regard to energy, the only ones who make it more expensive are the future commodity traders.

You are too smart to leave 90K on the table for me to take.So any deal you are trying to offload must not be (by definition) a good one for me.I am a futures trader by trade.

Thats the day the media told you we had a "fat finger" trader (typed a b instead of an m?)

Why property and not another venture, well, small business owners will give you a different answer than day traders, who will likely give you a different reasnoning than those on BP who have chosen to pursue RE.Maybe we all just grew up playing Monopoly.

I have adopted a traders mentality over the past 2 yrs.

And the foreclosure bidding services are analogous to the floor traders taking the order from the various firms' clients.

In order to be a good stock trader or investor you have to be very active and aware as to what is going on with the economy in general and in particular industries.

Amateur traders should also not have their feelings in the game.As for the market falling, most traders were calling for a double dip (happens every time historically).

Unable to work for themselves, seeking the safety of an advanced degree, they have dropped 200K on an U of Chicago law school education and the best they can do is to work for a fund where the people making all the money are 20 and 30 year old traders.

Granted it's just one person's opinion, but it seems like he's being pretty frank about the state of things:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bbc-speechless-trader-tells-truth-collapse-comingand-goldman-rules-world