and, if not conserved, be exhausted in the first half of the next century. The stock market does not need to fall the same way it happened in 1929 in order for it to fall at all. There are many different things that could pull the market towards a very steep decline. The stock market is one barometer of how people feel abut the economic world they live in and where it is headed. In 1929, the stock market was perhaps the major barometer, but now it is one of many. In order to get a feel of the market today, you just can't look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average like you used to be able to. Now, the market is broader and you have to look at the TSE 300, S&P 500, Nasdaq, DAX, FTSE etc. These are only different stock markets. There are also other measures of the economy such as GNP, Employment Rate and the mutual fund indexes and the bond indexes. The stock market, like many things in this world, is a man made system. There had been stock dating back to the very beginning of time when people had small businesses. There was just no public market giving people a chance to have ownership in each other's businesses. Now, thousands of years later, we trade stocks in companies, not for the sake of owning them, but because we want to obtain profits from our original stock prices. Right now, it is almost impossible for people to see how strong the international commodity markets are. Our parents and cousins and friends, everyone's ears are pinned to what goes on in the market every day of their lives. We need to start teaching more about stock market trading, and with this new expansion of knowledge, we will allow for the market to grow stronger and stronger, but at a steady pace. If the world, consisting of the consciences of over six billion people wants the market to grow, then the market will grow. With international interest and knowledge we can eliminate fraud and stock pooling to raise stock prices. The markets will be more honest, and the...
