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US Stock Market: Driving Out Healthy Companies and Investors
ZeroHedge.com (10 Nov 09)
The decline in the number of U.S. listed companies has cost our economy millions of potential jobs.
Market structure changes began to erode support for small cap stocks and eventually worked their way up to damage the support for larger companies.
The results of low transaction-cost Casino Capitalism are that short-term, high-frequency traders are squeezing out long-term investors, the listed market for public companies is in decline, and this decline is taking the U.S. economy with it.
The small and micro cap markets have in many ways become a Hotel California – companies check in but they can’t check out by going private (except through delisting, bankruptcy or acquisition).
The need for improved stock markets has never been greater. Bridging the widening gap between small cap and large cap issuer needs should be a national imperative
