In what has to be one of the most surreal moments on television, Mike Huckabee, former Republican governor of Arkansas, suggests that terrorists are somehow behind the wild market fluctuations we've experienced in recent weeks.
"A friend of mine in the financial markets indicated that he's been doing a careful analysis of the last 12 days and there seems to be a manipulation in the marketplace. In the last half hour of each day there's an extraordinary rush of computerized trading going on. He believes that there may in fact be evidence of economic terrorism that is fueling a lot of what is going on . . . I know this is not just some guy out there reading the internet pages, this is somebody who owns a financial company," said Huckabee.
And the conversation gets even weirder when Huckabee asks Chuck Norris for his opinion.
"Have you ever thought about terrorism being an economic forum," says Huckabee.
"Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh definitely, Mike," says Norris.
We're not ruling out the possibility of economic terrorism, but the theory doesn't really explain market rallies in the last hour of trading – do the terrorists want us to profit from our index funds?
Nor does the theory really explain away the U.S. deficit; slowing consumer spending; and the dying U.S. auto industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzqm-9mBGa4
