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    GregY
    Sep 15 10:37 AM
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    If you need to look for guilty party (s) here are my candidates:
    1. Chris Dodd or is it "Dudd" and Barney Frankes are the arhitects of mortgage disaster should imo join the architect of Enron debacle;
    2. George "no veto" Bush who betrayed his constituency and didn't learn much from his personal experience of S&L meltdown.

    At least the Exxon skipper was drunk....     Reply
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    Unke AL
    Sep 15 10:21 AM
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    Let's all be honest. The present financial fiasco is the fault of Mr. Alan REDspan whose job it was to control such excesses. Now he's going around the country saying "no-one could have foreseen this problem"
    Hogwash ! For a true explanation please see the article by Mike Stathis on Seeking Alpha Sept. 11th entitled "Greenspan Get Lost". By his actions, Mr. Redspan has cost American Taxpayers up to 10 trillion dollars. In addition, world bankers will now be far more reluctant to trust U. S. paper in the future.     Reply
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    notsosmart
    Sep 15 10:02 AM
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    i think its clintons fault or maybe abe lincoln.george washington cant escape either.LOL.when the sec allows leverage of over 30-1 the blame is current. i got ot @ 14,000dj.lost all courage.may nible @ 11,000. Reply
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    TBill
    Sep 15 09:57 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    I agree with just about everything said so far, with that counterproductive must mark to market when there is no market being what really pushed this mess over the edge. Greed is good. It's what makes the system work. Government is there to see that fraud is not resorted to, otherwise needs to stay out as much as possible. Reply
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    LouieK
    Sep 15 09:29 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Eddie64: greed is a problem only to the extent the financial structure and the productive structure allow government largesse instead of markets to make all economic decisions. When politicians see how they can provide constituencies (such as subprime markets) as promises to get elected, then we always have moral hazard. The problem is not primarily greed, but socialism. Think GSEs like Fannie and Freddie and government policy to support and encourage sub-prime lending. Reply
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    Mathman
    Prophecy
    Sep 15 09:23 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    If you're looking for a job, I think the best place to work nowadays is for head hunters. This is bad, but at least Lehman didn't get bailed out by the Fed... Reply
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    long_on_oil
    Sep 15 09:05 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Ditto Eddie64, you hit the nail on the head. I just wish I would have been smart enough to go to cash when the market was at 14000...lol
    But doesn't everyone.
    The collapse of all these financials is creating major buying opportunities like we haven't seen in years. They are having to liquidate equities with no market price buyers.     Reply
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    eddie64
    Sep 15 08:32 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    The financial meltdown we are facing has been largely the result of government legislation and initiatives. Start with the massive over spending to weaken our nations financial position. Add the $700BB annual outflow of money for oil because of a failed energy policy for 35 years. Recently, Sarbanes/Oxley, as the typical overreaction to Enrons/Worldcoms, made Officers/Directors "personnally"... liable for financial misstatements. Stir in the subprime mess, created by the governments desire to provide the American Dream [a house] even to those who couldn't afford it. Defaults and foreclosures start to permeate markets [SURPRISE] as government oversight and policy agencies [THE FED] allowed these specious bank lending practices. Now faced with ASSETS MARKED TO MARKET, [when there is no market], creates a precipitous slide in valuations of financial institutions. Fold in the RATINGS AGENCYS "downgrades" causing stress on all types of financial firms liquidity and borrowing. Then have the government [SEC] eliminate the UPTICK RULE and the requirement to BORROW SHARES FIRST, so HEDGE FUNDS could SHORT stocks into oblivion. Merrill Lynch's acquisition by B of A for a 70% "premium" confirms that assets are overall more valuable than current writedown levels. And the government is scrambling by deleting our Treasury and twisting laws to increase the FED'S charter/involvement for both funding and oversight. And what single characteristic was at the heart of this financial massacre -- GREED!!!
    IMHO     Reply
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    User 26737
    Sep 15 08:26 AM
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    THE KING GEORGE III BUSH LEGACY Reply
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    Mazel Tov
    Sep 15 08:20 AM
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    Rachel when is the bleeding going to stop?!? Reply
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    dj_bfree
    Sep 13 02:18 PM
    Videogame Shares Falling, Weak Sales Data To Blame [view article]
    Sales are usually flat in the third quarter anyways. Most of the time, the publishers try to push their AAA products out during the winter. Reply
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    Roger
    Knights
    Sep 12 03:57 AM
    Why Apple Stock Is Poised To Go Flat - At Best [view article]
    What I called a "positive catastrophe" is what Nassim Taleb calls a "positive black swan." Here's what he wrote, from p. 296 of his book "The Black Swan":

    "I am very aggressive when I can get exposure to positive Black Swans."

    It would have made sense for IBM to have started reselling Apple products a year ago. The main obstacle to such an arrangement may be Jobs. I hope he can be "big enough to be small."     Reply
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    gaucho420
    Sep 11 11:44 AM
    The Take-Two/EA Merger Saga Continues [view article]
    Take Two is not Yahoo! Completly different scenario outside of both were offered buy outs...that's the only thing in common that and this proposed mergers have. Yahoo!'s on the way down...Take Two is coming off a high and looking towards better times. Business wise, they're on completly different tracks.
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    dj_bfree
    Sep 11 08:48 AM
    Gaming the Recession [view article]
    One thing left out by the author is the investment required in order to play video games, the hardware. In order to enjoy those best "bang for your buck" console games, you have to go out and buy a Xbox ($199), Wii ($250), or a PS3 ($399). I could also add in the cost for purchasing a regular TV or an HDTV.

    As for a PC, if its a new game it will probably require you to have a computer that isn't 4 years old. That could cost an individual around $800 to play any new game.

    On the whole though, I agree that video games do provide a cheaper alternative to most forms of entertainment after the initial investments have been made.     Reply
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    Roger
    Knights
    Sep 10 08:30 PM
    Why Apple Stock Is Poised To Go Flat - At Best [view article]
    PPPS: Warren Buffet said, "I'd rather buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price." Apple at $152 (its resistance level, incidentally), is more than fair. Anything much below $152 would be a steal--even if Jobs has stepped down. Reply
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