(Real opinion piece follows )

If you remember that stock exchange (as a whole) has long ago disconnected from the real world and economist in corporations see commonly workers as a cost, nothing more, then you can understand why stock prices raise when unemployment rises: Less workers -> less costs -> more profit is the chain of thought.

Stock markets haven’t ever been interested in products produced or who buys those, too complicated for them: If stocks sell and prices rise, then all is well, it’s a closed world.

Explains why the bailout money went straight to stocks: Bank executives get their bonuses based on stock price and so they get the most of if to their own pockets by raising stock prices, not by “helping customers”. And figuring that took about a minute, which obviously was too much for the president and his assistants. It seems that you an always trust the FED to help their fellows in need, not the nation.

Mental thinking (by bank executives) that caused whole crisis hasn’t changed a bit. I suspect it won’t chance until it’s forced to and that’s something current administration obviously isn’t going to do.