Facebook going "public" is the best example of a rigged market.

[Skidmore]

Big money has first dibs, I understand. And those people will turn around and sell it to the little guy for more higher prices. Meantime, there is a "frenzy" about the offering.

If the market were free, they would toss it out there for everyone and there would be no dibs.

[I owe a]

1. ummmm

governors have made war not just on women but on unions, the needy, children, and the middle class.

[Skidmore]

2. Governors? Just governors?

Wall Street is an exclusive club which has been doing war on the rest of the nation. Who do you think bought and paid for pols work for?

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. A guaranteed windfall and it is reserved for the uber-rich. Some free market. n/t

[KurtNYC]

4. First in line for a piece of crap

let them have it.

What's rigged is the Florida State pension fund buying Enron on the slide to its doom.