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    Sailorman
    Sep 24 08:48 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    I could not have said it better! My thoughts exactly! Reply
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    pockyclips
    2020
    Sep 24 08:45 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Loans, si. Bailout, no. Loan the bad bettors the money, let them cleanup the mess. If companies get to big to fail, then there should be limits on how big a company should get.

    Taxpayers will be lucky to get 20 cents on the dollar under the present plan. There is no incentive for the crooks to do any better.

    No doubt that the neocons and the con artists are using 911 scare tactics to steamrolller the opposition. Conservatives should act conservative, and not rush the bailout bill. It took these clowns 8 years
    to create this mess, so we shouldn't expect the problem to be solved in a week.     Reply
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    eddie64
    Sep 24 08:45 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    I continue to be "amazed" that none of these so called experts has proposed removing/changing the pressure points on these stock prices and institutions: SARBANES/OXLEY & FASB 157 & UPTICK RULE. Assets would immediately be MARKED UPWARD & STOCK PRICES WOULD RISE! Little tax payers money required as problem self corrects...........
    It's as if a man bleeding to death goes to ER and is fitted with continuous pints of blood infusions, while allowing the hemmoraging to continue unrepaired>>>...

    Genius' of Morons?????????     Reply
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    axelrod608
    Sep 24 08:16 AM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Same message, different story. We MUST pass the Patriot Act NOW. Saddam has WMD - we MUST act NOW to protect America. The financial markets are falling - we MUST act NOW to save America. The town that heard the "WOLF !!" cry only took two fake calls to realize they were being conned. What about us and our "leaders" in DC ?? How many of these BS scares will it take to realize they're blowing smoke again ? The Empire of George II falls back to its most successful ploy - act now or be destroyed. And anybody opposed is anti-American.

    Answer me this, Hank and Ben - if Congress throws a couple trillion dollars after the stupid losses financial institutions have blown, will you GUARANTEE it will fix the problem ? Will you sign over your personal wealth to the US government to help pay for your plan's failure ? The two most important questions are:

    If we don't accept your proposal, is a crash certain ?
    Will this plan fix the problem and avert a crash ?

    And therein lies the true question. Nobody that I know has said a crash is certain whether or not a "bailout plan" is carried out. Similarly, nobody I know of has certified that a "bailout" plan would fix the problem. It all boils down to credibility. And the administration of George II has none. Paulson in my book, who was head of Goldman Sachs during its massive increase of leverage, has none. And clearly, Bernanke's opening of the Fed discount window has averted nothing and perhaps aggravated the situation.

    Let the mismanaged financials fail and their assets get bought up by more ethical competitors. Let the fools who bought overpriced real estate using idiotic mortgage plans rent. Let the law of logical consequences solve this problem. Sure, some of Hank and Ben's country club buddies may have to sell the house in the Hamptons, but hey, fair is fair. Bailouts aren't.

    It is not a slap in the face to people like me - it's a right cross and a low blow by people who are in positions of trust who cannot be trusted. I worked hard, saved, invested wisely, never bought a new car, paid my bills and lived within my means. How dare you spoiled Wall Street brats tell me I should be responsible for scalawags such as you ? Millions of RESPONSIBLE Americans are NOT losing our homes to foreclosure because we bought homes we could afford. How dare you swindle us into paying for the irresponsible people who wrote loans to people who you KNEW couldn't pay and the ignorant ones who bought more house than they could afford.

    This plan in every aspect is UNAMERICAN. The FAIR way to solve this mess would be to sieze the assets of the offending financial institutions and use the proceeds to protect responsible Americans from the ill effects of the greedy financiers who caused this mess. The FAIR way to ensure it never happens again is to ban the officers and directors of the companies that created this mess from ever working in a financial company again.

    But hey, socialists have never really cared what's fair. Or Capitalists, for that matter. And former capitalists who want to socialize losses after pocketing profits couldn't care less about the poor shmucks they con into paying for their irresponsible behavior.

    I do not believe one word Paulson or Bernanke say. I believe a shakeout is the only thing that will scour the scum out of a largely dysfunctional financial sector that operates without ethics and is more casino gambling than responsible investing.

    In 1929, the perps jumped out of windows. In 2008, the perps get a golden parachute. We've come a long way, baby, and it isn't all for the better.

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    User 198873
    Sep 21 06:28 PM
    Google Sets Record With August Search Market Share [view article]
    why isnt goog trading at 700 or more. It is by far the best of evrything in its catagory. It is constantly improving and adding new ideas. It should start skyrockting to new all time highs an day now. jerry w. Reply
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    User 208427
    Sep 18 02:17 PM
    Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
    I am going back to drunkenly throwing darts at a newspaper. (My monkey got repossessed!) Reply
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    jackooo
    Sep 18 01:28 PM
    My Website
    Time Warner's Bewkes, An Evasive Optimist [view article]
    TWX service stinks. The stock price goes nowhere and now he wants to aquire companies? He should be fired in my humble 2315 shares opinion. Reply
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    davemcc3300
    Sep 18 11:06 AM
    Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
    Chuck LeBeau's comment is SPAM Reply
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    carey_jim
    Sep 18 10:57 AM
    Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
    Where is Louis Rukeyser when we need him!

    He always told the truth about the investment advice record of the big boys:

    They are wrong more often than they are right, even in an up market. But that's a truth no one wants to hear.     Reply
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    dr.stew
    Sep 18 09:30 AM
    Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
    I like what you have to say, and am in full agreement. My thought on investing in SPY and QQQQ is to dollar cost average into these two ETF's. Over the years I feel I will make a better than average return. Reply
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    User 265018
    Sep 18 08:09 AM
    Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
    Great article and an always valid point to check performance against the market. Everyone seems to think they are winning until they bother to check the score. Reply
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    mildredlufwo
    ka
    Sep 18 05:55 AM
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    Search vs. Display Ads: The Gap Widens [view article]
    Very nice.
    Keep it up.     Reply
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    Voice of
    Reason
    Sep 17 11:25 PM
    Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008 [view article]
    How many successful hedge funds any of you losers run?

    How many of you have your own tv show on CNBC?

    That's what I thought.     Reply
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    Chuck LeBeau
    Sep 17 09:03 PM
    My Website
    Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
    Avoid Financial Disasters with SmartStops

    In less than a year six widely held financial stocks have cost Buy and Hold investors more than $840 billion dollars. (Yes, that’s “billions” with a “B”).

    $840 billion in losses is a number that might even get Warren Buffet’s attention. Think of all the retirement funds and college tuition money that got needlessly flushed down the drain in these few months. It’s a sad scenario but the saddest part is that the investors who lost all these billions could have avoided this disaster by simply using a “SmartStop” trailing exit.

    Let’s look at the individual stocks and see what might have happened if some prudent stops were set rather than relying on a “buy and hold”. (You will notice that I did not refer to “buy and hold” as a strategy. It doesn’t qualify to be a strategy – its actually the absence of any intelligent exit strategy.)

    Fannie Mae (FNM): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $68.60 and FNM dropped to a recent low of $6.68. This 97% decline cost investors a total of $66 billion dollars. A SmartStop exit was triggered on Oct. 17, 2007 that would have limited the loss from the peak to less than 10%.

    Freddie Mac (FRE): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $65.88 and in less than 12 months FRE dropped all the way down to a pitiful 36 cents. When Freddie took that leap off the cliff it cost “buy and hold” investors $42 billion dollars. However a SmartStop exit was triggered on Oct. 16, 2007 at a price of $58.05 that might have preserved enough equity to get the grandkids through college.

    Lehman Brothers (LEH): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $66.98 and now they have filed for bankruptcy and the shares recently closed at a value of 21 cents. This painful disaster cost LEH shareholders $46 billion from the referenced high. Where was the SmartStop exit on LEH? It was triggered on Oct. 19th at $57.47 a share. Those funds could have been reinvested and earning money toward a comfortable retirement. Where is all that money now?

    American International Group (AIG): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $70.13 and now the stock is trying to stabilize somewhere below $5 after hitting $3.50. For the unfortunate shareholders who still own AIG that’s a whopping loss of $179 billion (give or take a few dollars). How smart was the SmartStops exit? It was triggered on Oct. 15, 2007 at $66.41 and there have been 28 more SmartStops sell signals since then.

    Washington Mutual (WM): The Sept/Oct 2007 high was $39.25 and the SmartStop exit was at $34.30 on Oct. 15th. WM hit a recent low of $1.75; not even enough to buy a Starbucks latte. In less than a year WM shareholders lost more than $63 billion. Maybe if they hold long enough WM will eventually recover. (Although it will require a gain of more than 2000% to make back that 95% loss.)

    Bear Stearns (BSC): It’s hard to believe that the Sept/Oct 2007 high for this ancient and respected brokerage firm with over 3 billion shares outstanding was $133.20 a share. Now they are gone and even with the government assisted bailout their unfortunate shareholders have lost more than $440 billion in equity. This one can never recover. That’s $440 billion of hard earned savings that’s now gone forever. (In case you are wondering, the SmartStops exit was at $110.11 on October 24, 2007. There were 17 more SmartStops exit signals prior to the takeover.)

    I wonder if the Bear Stearns account executives told their clients that the best way to invest was to buy and hold?

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    kmca1989
    Sep 17 01:17 PM
    Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
    yep - i'm getting spanked - having only invested @ august 1, i've still managed to catch up w/ the rest of the market's hideous downturn by being overly optimistic (and overweight) concerning financials. Reply
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