Actually, the women's lawyer asked for the rape charge to be reopened, which then happened.

By the same principle, no person with an IQ over 100 would be willing to work in the United States, which is obviously not true. Maybe you overestimate the prevalence of humanists..

I think you're overstating the difference the lag compensation of tf2 makes. It kinda makes the 70-100ms interval playable, but anything above that is still very noticeable and extremely frustrating unless you're playing a camping engie.

Yes, it is collectively worth 1.5 times more. Valuations are not intrinsic, they are directly dependent on the average level of risk aversion of investors. Obviously in a recession risk aversion goes up, and thus valuations go down. The process is reversed when you exit the recession.

I'll give you the issuing of more equity, but debt issues are not affected by stock market prices..fixed income investors look at ratings and financial ratios such as interest coverage. The stock market price does not really affect the

In any case, the long-term movements that would affect equity issues are not really affected by HFT.

I would pay very large amounts of money for the DF movie.

No it wasn't. Stock markets are not zero sum games.

>Long term investment is the POINT of a stock market. It's to encourage the private sector to ALLOCATE MONEY EFFICIENTLY toward PRODUCTIVE activity.

That does not make any sense whatsoever. The actual investment in a corporation is not affected in any way shape or form by what happens in the secondary (stock) markets. The efficient allocation of capital to investment opportunities happens in the primary markets i.e. IPOs.

>Have you looked around lately ?

Comparing the long-term prospects of an economy to its current or short-term state is the equivalent of saying that global warming doesn't exist because it snowed a lot this year. You may wish to revise your argument.

>Explain how stock trading liquidity is a benefit in and of itself

The higher the liquidity, the lower the bid-ask spread. Illiquid assets have gigantic spreads, to the tune of tens of percentage points on their actual value.

>The whole concept of the stock market is to create a central point for people to invest in a corporation.

That is an absurd notion. Whatever happens to a stock in the secondary markets (that is the stock markets), the actual investment in the corporation is unaffected. The primary markets (i.e. IPOs) are there for people to invest in corporations.

The role of the secondary markets is to provide a mechanism to a. trade the equity and b. to price it. You seem to think that the valuation of a corporation only depends on specific news about it, but nothing could be further from the truth. The vast majority of the variance in prices is explained not by fundamental factors, but because of changes in the risk preferences of investors.

>By definition a Troll is someone who makes defamatory ad hominem comments about the poster, instead of bothering to legitimately address the subject of discussion.

That would actually be a "flamer".

A troll is someone who deliberately presents a false and/or stupid opinion in order to generate a reaction in their audience.

Welcome to the internet!

None of the last 3 or so have even been good, so what are you talking about?

That's a ridiculous idea. It would increase volatility tremendously, increase spreads tremendously, increase mispricing tremendously, and of course destroy any semblance of liquidity for half the securities out there. Saying that arbitrageurs are skimming is like saying market makers are skimming. Partly true, but it completely ignores the positive effects of their actions for the market.

The management IS democratically elected in corporations, by its members (the shareholders).