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  • More Financial Pitfalls Ahead - S&P  [View article]
    I stubbed my toe this AM...part of the vast right wing conspiracy!! LOL!

    Happy Holidays!


    On Dec 20 09:17 AM hmcclung wrote:

    > My turtle died yesterday....damn George Bush!!!!
    Dec 22 12:59 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Why I Need a Government Bailout [View article]
    LOL! Thanks for the holiday cheer and smile. I need it!!!
    Dec 18 11:51 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • How Some of the Smartest Investors Turned Dumb in 2008 [View article]
    Good article, if only to make me feel better about my own losses! Thank you!

    Happy Holidays!
    Dec 12 11:52 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Holiday Stock Picks for the Unemployed Banker [View article]
    The majority of the folks losing their jobs are not investment bankers, but phone center, operations, and processing people. You are an idiot for promulgating otherwise.

    These folks do not want to lose their jobs and jump (implying willingness) on any such trend.
    Dec 11 10:31 am |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Chicago Standoff, Redefaults Bode Ill for Bank Shares [View article]
    how funny is this!!!

    www.azcentral.com/news...
    Dec 09 12:17 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Chicago Standoff, Redefaults Bode Ill for Bank Shares [View article]
    Minor point...The Reverend Jackson is not a politician in the true sense of the word...he has never been elected to anything.


    So a bank making a transactional loan decision, one that seems intelligent given the limited facts, warrants the wrath of the state of Ill? That is ridiculous!

    Is the mantra now, "Make only good loans, unless they are too our friends or constituents!".
    Dec 09 10:05 am |Rating: +2 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Whatever Happened to Bankruptcy? [View article]
    Guess you never learned how bankruptcy actually works...a trustee is appointed...to the point of comment above, this is micromanagement of the highest order.

    You article is long on passion, but short on facts. LOANS are what is being requested by the auto industry.

    The Fed, FDIC, ... all played a role in the current banking crisis.
    Dec 09 09:59 am |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment
  • GM: More Bailout-Worthy than Citigroup [View article]
    ALWAYS suspicious of folks with NO DISCLOSURE!!!
    Dec 08 12:58 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Citigroup's Rescue: Hope Is the Essential Ingredient [View article]
    gee, you wouldn't be SHORT financials now would you???
    Dec 08 12:23 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • What's a Super-Senior Tranche? [View article]
    Well done! Bravo!
    Dec 03 10:42 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Pay Bankers Much Less [View article]
    WHA? How did he not pay cap gains? (If they were short term gains they would likely be counted as regular income...)


    On Dec 02 11:37 AM User 311027 wrote:

    > I would argue that we "did" indeed pay the Treasury Secretary a huge
    > amount. Since he was foreced to resign his post as CEO of GS for
    > a government job he was forced to sell all of his GS stock and not
    > have to pay capital gains taxes. So if you figure when he sold his
    > stock at or around GS trading at $250 that is a huge windfall he
    > received by not paying ANY taxes on those shares. Considering his
    > gains were huge since he received most of his pay in stock and was
    > at the firm before they went public. Maybe that is why he is working
    > so hard. Who needs a $100k a year government job now that he cashed
    > out $500mm of tax free money 2 years ago!
    Dec 03 10:09 am |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment
  • 2008 - Where I Was Right and What I Could Not Have Imagined [View article]
    Sheesh. Done patting yourself on the back yet? Where is gold now, somewhere in the 700's I believe. This is akin to saying that oil will hit 120...it did, but has hastily retreated.
    Dec 02 10:12 am |Rating: +3 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Preview from Europe: Hank Speaks, Stocks Sink [View article]
    Boy, meredith is really prescient...card issuers have been doing this in earnest for months, and as part of a strategy for at least the last 10 years. Sheesh. If she predicted the sun would rise tomorrow, people would fawn.
    Dec 02 10:03 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Citigroup: Another Bad Deal [View article]
    WHAT are you smoking?


    On Nov 26 10:05 AM James Wilson wrote:

    > If you wanted to crash a countrys economy to lower wages, break big
    > unions and take over a government how would you do it ?
    >
    > Have a quite COUP during an election ? check
    > Scare the people with Terrorist ? check
    > Bankrupt most programs? check
    > Turn Government programs over to lobbyist ? check
    > Transfer Billions to your friends? check
    > Buy 99,000 ac in Paraguay to hide on if plan fails? check
    > Freeze Credit ? check
    > Bankrupt the treasury ? check
    > Have Private Military ready ? check
    > Have Patriot Laws past ? check
    > Have large holding facilities? check FEMA holding facilities
    >
    > Feel free to add to the list. Also check and see if Bush has done
    > the samer thing since 2000. You might be amazed.
    >
    > Holding my breath till Jan and praying he actually leaves office.
    >
    Dec 01 16:14 pm |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment
  • TD Bank and Citigroup Benefit from BCE's Collapsing Takeover  [View article]
    20...too long to explain here. IMHO...

    Long C.


    On Nov 28 11:13 AM geocpa wrote:

    > Quest:
    > What is C fair value per share?
    Dec 01 16:10 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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