Quote Originally Posted by fccexpert View Post
I am unaware of any big government bailouts proping up the stock market, can you support this with any facts?
Check the correlations of the stock market with the news of bank troubles, in particular failures.
For example find out the biggest drop in the Dow index and look up the top news event of that day.

Quote Originally Posted by fccexpert View Post
I am also unaware of any examples of how government inaction has resulted in a serious decline in the stock market. In fact, I know of few if any cases where government inaction has ever resulted in anything bad. Government action on the other hand almost always either 1) makes things worse or 2) creates more and bigger problems than any it solved.
That's nice in theory, better check the facts see my previous comment.

Quote Originally Posted by fccexpert View Post
Your first reply was non-responsive because the question was why the market always falls when President Obama or others in his administration talk about the economy.
Since it apparently escaped you, I was actually addressing your retirement concern, which was the motivation for your question (clearly very important to you since you chose to include it as half of your post). In case you missed it as well, I have answered the question in your thread title in a subsequent post.

Quote Originally Posted by fccexpert View Post
The implied fact that was not only not in evidence and was actually false was that I owned Lehman Bros. stock. Never have.
No implied facts. My mistake for overestimating your ability to understand hyperbole as a mean of emphasizing a point.
I already clarified it, but let me repeat. In today's market stock values are based on predictions of the future and since the government has enormous power to change the future any public announcements are taken as indication that the original predictions will be wrong, with default presumption of negative consequences.