Oil markets fall - blame the swine flu
Ok, so here is a headline I came across on Yahoo news this evening:
"Oil falls 2 percent towards $49 on flu, bank jitters"
Does the press really think the public is so stupid that we will accept a new-found strand of the flu responsible - or even partially so - for the gas prices (or any other prices) taking a dive? Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe that a "pandemic" that has affected 0.00000016% (roughly 50 cases divided by 300,000,000 US citizens) of the domestic population would cause consumers to purchase less oil?
I don't know about you, but I am not too worried about contracting this disease. Even if I fail to avoid the 1.6 ten-millionth chance of getting sick this way, I am positive I will survive. Most people who have had it lived to tell the story.
This is yet another smokescreen to divert the attention from the debacle that is the United States government to something completely ridiculous. Last week it was "torture". However, the American people have been bored with the subject for years now. The week before was about pirates. America is not bored with that, but that involves having to deal with a real issue, so the media feels (not a jib at you Mike...this is their diction) it is doing us a favor by not making us face facts. That is the problem. Society has been trained to feel, not think. I can't wait to see what they have planned for us next.
"Oil falls 2 percent towards $49 on flu, bank jitters"
Does the press really think the public is so stupid that we will accept a new-found strand of the flu responsible - or even partially so - for the gas prices (or any other prices) taking a dive? Do they really think we are stupid enough to believe that a "pandemic" that has affected 0.00000016% (roughly 50 cases divided by 300,000,000 US citizens) of the domestic population would cause consumers to purchase less oil?
I don't know about you, but I am not too worried about contracting this disease. Even if I fail to avoid the 1.6 ten-millionth chance of getting sick this way, I am positive I will survive. Most people who have had it lived to tell the story.
This is yet another smokescreen to divert the attention from the debacle that is the United States government to something completely ridiculous. Last week it was "torture". However, the American people have been bored with the subject for years now. The week before was about pirates. America is not bored with that, but that involves having to deal with a real issue, so the media feels (not a jib at you Mike...this is their diction) it is doing us a favor by not making us face facts. That is the problem. Society has been trained to feel, not think. I can't wait to see what they have planned for us next.
posted by Aaron \m/ at 11:05 PM
2 Comments:
Spencer would so agree with you on all of that
I know, Yahoo Finance does that all the time. They wait until the market moves and then make up some stupid headline as to why. The best is when the market suddently moves the opposite direction and their headline is still there...
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