Radio Dispatch

We explain the S&P downgrade, look into Mitt Romney’s abortion past, and interview Liz Hernandez Majumder, who just illegally traveled to Cuba.

So the only actual number of the day is extremely negative, yet the stock market soared to near-record gains. It’s getting easier to understand how these people blew up the world economy more and more every day.

—My follow-up post to yesterday’s: And here’s what you need to know about Tuesday’s market bounce

That’s why the conventional wisdom on this is so absurd, and so wildly misguided. That wisdom, such as it is, goes like this: markets are worried about the S&P downgrade, so traders got spooked and are selling rapidly. The problems with this analysis is that, yes traders are selling, but they are buying the very product that supposedly cause the panic in the first place.

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My new post on The Faster Times, What you need to know about today’s market crash.  Tumblr is giving me a hard time embedding the link, so here it is in full.

http://thefastertimes.com/politicalmedia/2011/08/08/what-you-need-to-know-about-todays-market-crash/ 

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