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    libertarians
    obsister
    Oct 10 03:26 PM
    Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008 [view article]
    there are no heroes. i thought this was a joke when he did it. i was right. but i really thought he knew it was a joke. ohwell, he could stil be right about the angry mortgage holders, and he is right about birdbrainnke. Reply
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    mackfreddie
    Oct 10 10:46 AM
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    Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008 [view article]
    Freaking hilarious! You are wrong Jimbo! Reply
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    brackamansk
    Oct 10 08:02 AM
    Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008 [view article]
    Well 10 months later and Cramer's picks perhaps have lost people a lot of money. Just goes to prove that even the so called smart guys don't know shi......... Reply
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    workedlate
    Oct 09 07:26 PM
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    Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008 [view article]
    You forgot 2008 was year of natural gas. doh............I am starting to think Cramer doesn't mind making so many wrong calls because he seems to just feed off of attention, good or bad. Self absorbed or narcissist might be what you call it. He was saying sell everything in the morning then afternoon was saying load up on chocolate bars with almonds. He needs to go back to his winning ways......buy everything in a bull market and then call yourself a brilliant mind. Clearly the guru that was suppposed to guide "cramericans"... through the darkness forgot to fill his torch. It is getting harder and harder to even turn on Cnbc. They have so many "experts" yacking and sounding like puppets that are expert at calling things after the fact. Gee that sounds like reporting.....maybe if they would report and then shut up instead of predicting it would be more interesting but likely less entertaining for the masses. Reply
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    bonanza
    Oct 07 01:20 PM
    Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008 [view article]
    These picks are down an average! of 29.98% into Oct. 7. Goes to show it's not what happens but how you sell it. Reply
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    K. Lewis
    Oct 02 01:55 PM
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    Are New Digital Music Payments Enough? [view article]
    I agree with Activision. The game play is the driver for the sale. You could easily substitute the music with indy songs and still have hit games. Just look at the model on television. CBS revived their label just to feed their shows. Cable stations bypass the high priced option altogether for independent music.

    Activision is in such a position of power that they could probably start their own boutique label and have bands gladly jump at the opportunity. There's at least one move studio I know of that's looking to do just that in order to bypass paying labels for including their acts music in major motion pictures.

    The labels must adapt or perish along with their antiquated business model.     Reply
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    AT57
    Sep 29 11:46 AM
    Are New Digital Music Payments Enough? [view article]
    You say, "But now Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick is fighting back, saying maybe music labels should pay them! His argument: music games make songs more popular, driving paid song downloads, album sales, and ticket sales."

    Good for him...Didn't Activision have to receive express permission from Aerosmith (one of the games' music partners) to use their likeness AND THEIR MUSIC in the body of the game? Did the band's agents give that permission in exchange for a fee payable to the artist? RIAA shoud have NO claim to performance royalties in this case. Also, it seems that the RIAA's willingness to accept a 'percentage of revenue' model from Rhapsody and other music subscription services like it, where anyone with an analog receiver and CD burner attached to their computer can take copies of SELECTED MUSIC at will, and not take the same deal with Internet streaming stations where selective music piracy is far more difficult, leads me to beileve that the RIAA sees linkage between Internet streaming and broadcast radio, where they have been unsuccessfully fighting for the performance royalty for 70 years.

    Smarten up, RIAA...forcing Internet only operations like Pandora to die in their cribs won't make up for your industry's shortsighted, stupid sales model mistakes of the past decade. And expecting the 'old' radio industry to pay you to promote your product now since you believe that promotional value has diminished with the advent of the Internet- see above - is even more short sighted and stupid. Will you be looking for a performance royalty from movie producers, TV producers and the like for the inclusion of songs into their soundtracks?
    THEY ARE HELPING YOUR ARTISTS BY DOING THAT...NOT STEALING FROM THEM. Your industry may be, with the possible exception of investment banking, the most stupidly run industry ever.
    Go figure out how to monetize music without trying to kill the media that wants to help you sell music. One potential bailout is enough, thanks.     Reply
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    branson
    Sep 27 03:06 PM
    MySpace Aims to Be the Jukebox of Our Internet Existence [view article]
    All these "free" music sites are crap IMO. The user experience sucks. When are people going to realize you get what you pay for? Music is in demand, therefore it has value. The paid subscription sites like Rhapsody and Napster where you get all the music all the time without the BS blow away the competition. Reply
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    bluesmoke
    Sep 26 10:32 AM
    MySpace Aims to Be the Jukebox of Our Internet Existence [view article]
    I think it's a very positive move for the major labels. I'm not sure it will stop the bleeding as it's an unprotected platform, but it definitely gets the music to its listeners, one that can be tailored and expanded upon. It will be interesting to see where this leads, as the My Space crowd is a younger demographic, and most of us really don't care about a vast back catalog.

    Another irony here is, as of now indies don't have access to this model. And judging from what I hear on the radio, the indie bands are really where the great new music is coming from.     Reply
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    axelrod608
    Sep 25 04:56 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    -jr - "Quite obvious Georgell is not equiped to handle those finnace boys from wall street, they sure got one over on the good old boys from Texas."

    That is not my take. I see this as yet another in a string of "crises" George II is using to put yet another one over on the sheeple and the Congress at the expense of the taxpayers. Patriot Act, WMD, attack Iraq, all presented to the Congress and the American people with the same hurry up, we gotta do this now, can't wait and if you're opposed you're unpatriotic. Bush acts like a hick, but he's not a dummy. You don't get an MBA from an Ivy League School if you're a dummy. Congress will wring their hands, talk tough and pass some poorly planned piece of legislation that few if any of them will read before voting on it.

    This is not news. I started shorting Fannie and Freddy over two years ago. Lots of people knew and many have been talking about the coming debt crisis. EMPIRE OF DEBT has been out for years. The rush to try to fix this quick, now, is just George II's parting scam. Payback for years of campaign contributions, etc. It is the systemic version of Enron.     Reply
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    woodsey
    Sep 25 03:31 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    I still hear people talking "free market" which has come to mean "anything goes". I have talked to people who went through the mortgage loan process, and what they were urged to do was criminal. Now we are urged to pour 700 B of gasoline on the fire, and it is said to be medicine. I say it is arson. Reply
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    jrheintz28
    Sep 25 03:29 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    axelrod608; is right on the mark but, short of labeling our Washington friends as slick.
    Quite obvious Georgell is not equiped to handle those finnace boys from wall street, they sure got one over on the good old boys from Texas.

    Another fact, never trust that politician who wants to represent you in congress, his memory will fail after the election. JQPublic will be left holding the bag.

    axelrod608 also on the money by stating bankrupcy as being the vehicle to solve this problem, the truth will surface during the process and ther will be people going to jail.

    Lets all start beating that same drum. We need to be heard!     Reply
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    wallyjm
    Sep 25 01:24 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    when nixon went off a gold backed currency this is the final result of fiscal irrresponsibilty. fiat money. Reply
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    Right in
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    Francisco
    Sep 25 12:40 PM
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    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Newsflash for Lawrence Yun of the National Association of Realtors: The housing industry will not return to normal growth until the excesses in prices and quantity caused by 20 years of easy money have worked their way through the system. We are arguing about the mechanics of the financial side of it, but that is what will happen as the laws of economics once again triumph. Reply
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    BlueAmerican
    Sep 25 12:28 PM
    Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
    Have some faith. The sun will come up tomorrow. Yes, the taxpayers will be paying the bill but I bet a few years down the road it will be seen as the right way to go. I think P & B get it that if there isn't a pay off for Main Street then there won't be a pay off for Wall Street. P has not done a good job of selling it but when the final deal of the bail out is all worked out, it will not make anybody happy at first but down the road it will have been the seen as the right thing that did get done. N obody likes to take medicine but they all like what it does. Reply
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