I just wondering how things would be if that 50 billion that Madoff stole was invested in the right now, would it make a difference.

 

  • lidlwig 5:08 pm on February 22, 2010

    that much money sittign in cash would not directly help the economy at all but that much going in at once could directly bring the stock market indexes up quite a bit i would imagine which in itself could indirectly help the economy as people potentially would feel more at ease i guess mentally if their 401ks, retirement accts, investment accts etc start moving up….

    so to sum up, directly no, indirectly possibly

  • Dr. Pepper 5:08 pm on February 22, 2010

    Nope, it would still suck.

  • jeff410 5:08 pm on February 22, 2010

    No, the market has lost trillions in market cap. Fifty billion isnt going to help.

  • John B 5:08 pm on February 22, 2010

    Well unless the $50 billion is currently in cash, it wouldn’t make a difference because it would have to come from selling off some other investment.

  • msc 5:08 pm on February 22, 2010

    If you gradually invested $50 billion in a handful of stocks, it would help those stocks. If they were all in a certain industry, like automotive, it might even increase confidence in that industry slightly.

    But it wouldn’t have a lasting effect on the economy. In order for that to happen, we’d have to have a very wide-spread increase in business performance and consumer confidence.

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