On Jan 23, 2008, at 5:22 PM, B. wrote:
> Wasn't this called "whipsawing" in the past ("the
> market is whipsawing"), or is that term for longer
> periods of this kind of bipolar/blowin' hot and
> cold-type activity...?
That term is still around.
The conspiracists will no doubt attribute the recovery to the "plunge protection team," a group of government traders operating from a desk in a safe house at an undisclosed location....