My point is that there are many outside forces that now affect our financial industry. We have the event last week here that was triggered by events in Asia. We also have an almost double digit drop that occurred within the last 2 yrs when a Japanese investment group needed cash and made a massive withdrawl from their US investment account.

>>>What's to prevent other countries voicing their opinions by withdrawing funds from the US. There have been several incidents like last week where a small blip sent the US stock exchange into a minor nose dive. It wouldn't be hard to send it into a major dive.
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>>What countries do you mean? I hope you are aware that primary reason for the nosedive was outside of US.
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>I thought the NYSE had a sharp decline the day (actually half day) before the Asian exchanges. No?