You know as well as I, silly. That it is all smoke and mirrors. There is no rescission. The economic troubles are just smoke and mirrors to squeeze more money out of the stock market. I am no fool, but your counting on the blindness of them all. What if I removed the veil? Would the dissent at how you treated them come back on you? It is the law of returns, you have only avoided reaping because you have hidden yourself and divided their minds. Get with the 2.0 program? haha, as if I don't know how you hide my message.

If you have ever been in business, you will know how easy it is to massage figures to represent an Alternate Reality.

Defying analyst predictions/trumping expectations is all very well, but it always is normally just smoke and mirrors and especially so in a troubled economic climate. And that always suggests that things are a lot worse that can be possibly imagined.

IBM loses a billion here, a billion there? If they have anything to do with the modelling of financial systems, they are in meltdown?