I NEED an Aspirin

How the stock market is manipulated and a concrete example

Aspirin: A few months back, I don’t know if it is the most recent one – I saw the new news on aspirin – taking it every day can lead to gastric trouble – as if taking any drug every day wouldn’t lead to something. Then there is the real killer release every two years or so. Taking aspirin everyday eliminates the risk of cancer, especially anal cancer. I have seen this one over the last 15 years or so and it fascinates me as it must be such an easy game to play. I mean they don’t exactly say eliminates cancer – they don’t have to – anything that contains the words cancer and less risk is a panacea. After these releases are prepared – let’s take the one that was blasted at us a couple of months ago – the one saying well, actually, taking aspirin everyday may not be such a hot idea. Can you see the guys who have the main chunks in aspirin stocks dumping them all off a few hours before the junk is squirted in the press pump and ejected as mainstream effluent? They bought the shares they dump a couple of years back – the day before aspirin was for the tenth time discovered to cure cancer of all kinds. They have sold all their shares – along comes little Johnny day trader thinking he is clever and he catches the drop in the price of aspirin just a few hours after the release – ah, I am clever – I am first – he sell off his recently purchased shares at just a five percent loss – he has saved his loss and is thinking of the suckers out there who will keep it. Next, the tradition walkers with brokers – the brokers tell them it’s time to sell – within the week the price falls through the floor and the poor cretin on vacation comes home and finds he is sitting on a stock worth half what it was before they left home – he sells, oh well. Then there is a beep on a monitor and all the big players are back in on no news release... two years later... Taking an aspirin everyday reduces the risk of anal cancer... and here we go again... Of course way down at the bottom of the tank we have those dinosaurs that buy a stock and keep it twenty years... they win. Well, they get something... just not the something that the big players get every couple of years. The rest of them, well, they get... hit?