Martin Konowitch: Is this what America wants?

If you knew somebody who could make the markets go up or down instantaneously, could you make a lot of money? Let’s say you were the son of a person, and you ran that person’s businesses and that person could establish policies that positively affected the stock markets. Could you invest in a stock that was priced low and make a lot of money when stocks went up because of policy changes?

If you were working closely with this same person and you had a lot of money, could you make a lot more money by short selling or setting up option trades, if you knew that stocks were going down when this person changed policies? What if this person had a house that the world focused on because the person was in a trusted position, in that nice white house and this person highlighted your product on their front lawn, would that benefit you financially?

What if this same person making “policy” knew that no matter what they did, they would not go to jail. Sounds like a lot of power in one person’s hands. What if that same person has no one that is able to check or stop this person because people feared his ability to punish them. This person would kind of be like a king or dictator and this person would not belong as a part of a representative democracy.

What do you think? Is this fair or patriotic or even what America wants?

Martin Konowitch

Northampton