Government buffer-stock schemes are rife with politics, and instead of generating profits from buying low and selling high, they tend to generate losses.

Buying low and selling high has been reduced to a mathematic certainty. When used with low-priced stocks the system can be even more beneficial to the end user.

Why is it so hard for the IMF and the U.S. government to understand that putting out the fire comes before fireproofing the building?

if you're dumb enough to buy it i'm smart enough to sell it to you.

When Ronald Reagan was elected president for his first term in 1980, he received strong support from the so-called Sagebrush Rebels. The Rebels wanted lands owned by the federal government to be transferred to state governments.

Instead of people buying and selling products and services, people are really buying and bidding on loans from other people.