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Max Keiser for AJE: Market Manipulation, Naked Short Selling and Hedge Funds

category international | consumer issues | other press author Monday June 25, 2007 10:11author by MaxKeiser.com Report this post to the editors

"An Absolutely Amazing and Definitive Video Special"

"If you don't do anything else this month, you need to go watch this special on how rigged the so-called "free" markets are.

It's clear, concise, amusing in a wry, quirky way...and terribly sad, as it shows that it is simple to explain all this in a comprehensible manner, and yet it isn't by the supposedly fair US media. Commentator Max Keiser does a remarkable job in describing how completely ugly this is, and arrives at the same conclusion I did - playing in a rigged game is a fool's errand."

- Bob O'Brien's Sanity Check

Free markets are meant to be fair, but are they really?

The smallest investor in the stock market is meant to face the same odds as the richest, and that is what makes free markets free.

Free markets are also meant to provide all participants with the same information about stocks, bonds, and currencies - that way all the investors have an equal chance of making a profit.

The market also allows investors to pool their resources into mutual or hedge funds, so they can punch way above their weight.

Whereas mutual funds are weighted in favour of the small investor, and are highly regulated, hedge funds are far riskier products and are weighted in favour of wealthy people who are seen as sophisticated enough to take risks that ordinary investors cannot. They are hardly regulated at all - so that everybody comes out of the market a supposed winner.

In Max Keiser's "viewpoint" film for Al Jazeera English, he argues that hedge and mutual funds are manipulated to benefit brokers, bankers and the richest investors, to the detriment of those with less power and less money.

He explains his view that free markets are not in fact free or fair, but in fact rigged – he thinks that even governments have a finger in the free market pie.

Watch the film.

Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z66kmPRl5Y

Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3H6uEyR66M

Learn more at http://www.maxkeiser.com

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