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4. There are a lot of small investors in the 99%. They did risk their limited

Reply to antiquie (Reply #3)

Sat Dec 22, 2012, 07:57 PM

Dec 2012

capital with the Facebook IPO. There should not be varied tiers of information, and where there is, Occupy should look into it. In actual fact the basic assumption behind all economic models is that "given perfect information then people will act according to.....". Well this is a case, as there are many, where there is not perfect information. So the market fails. And government should step in. And Occupy should be concerned with this as they are with education and other things that mitigate against different people having more information to start out with.

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Here is a link to another inequality. Occupy should get on this right away. [View all] applegrove Dec 2012 OP

Why? antiquie Dec 2012 #1

A lot of the 99% would be small investors. And it is not fair applegrove Dec 2012 #2

I did not realize antiquie Dec 2012 #3

There are a lot of small investors in the 99%. They did risk their limited applegrove Dec 2012 #4

Okay with me antiquie Dec 2012 #5

I'm not saying it should overtake any of those important issues. But applegrove Dec 2012 #6

One Group? antiquie Dec 2012 #7