China is not only gobbling up all of the scrap stell they can buy, but they are sopping up all of the world crude oil supply that they can get their hands on. Want to know why gas costs over $2 a gallon, and oil is at $53 per barrel? Look over there. Their state run economy is buying oil from everywhere else while developing their own oil fields and leaving them shut in for their future. Think about that, while our government for the last 12 years has sold them technology and weapons.
As far as business goes, people used to by stocks for the dividends and corporations were run to pay the quarterly dividends out of the profits. Now everything is dependent on the "rate of return" and how that affects the "daily stock price". A friend of mine, who was CEO for a public energy company was recently fired because "there was not enough action" in the stock price, for the "Wall Street Analysts". Never mind if the company was a great place to work or was financially sound. All that mattered was "activity" in the stock price, so that the Wall Street traders can make money off of every one elses sweat, while they sit at their computers in their clean white shirts. I am in the energy business, and if I get a choice, I will never work for a public company again.
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