Michael L's Comments RSS Syndication from SeekingAlpha.com http://seekingalpha.comuser/129569/comments http://seekingalpha.com/article/166942-too-big-to-fail-greenspan-adds-his-voice-to-the-break-up-chorus?source=feed#comment-717342 717342 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:17:23 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/129289-the-fasb-rally-more-dishonest-breathing-room-for-banks?source=feed#comment-450487 450487 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:43:48 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/124932-merck-to-buy-schering-plough-in-41-1-billion-cash-and-stock-deal?source=feed#comment-419239 419239 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:59:18 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/110329-satellite-radio-is-not-immune-to-big-three-troubles?source=feed#comment-326558 326558 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:09:42 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/108828-blame-citigroup-s-woes-on-the-citi-travelers-merger?source=feed#comment-319199 319199 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:23:45 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/107523-citi-s-underwhelming-bailout?source=feed#comment-313425 313425 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:27:46 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/107241-sirius-investors-decline-in-oem-take-rate-something-to-watch?source=feed#comment-311612 311612
Ouch.]]> Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:22:06 -0500
Ouch.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/104420-citigroup-is-heading-into-the-single-digits?source=feed#comment-299273 299273
And it may need some additional bailout money when it becomes clear that housing defaults are just the start of our troubles. Remember all those vacations and flat-screens consumers put on their credit cards? Well, it's time for them to pay up...with money they don't have. C's business model was to offer plastic to every guy living under a bridge...well, it's time for C to pay up for its folly.]]> Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:24:48 -0500
And it may need some additional bailout money when it becomes clear that housing defaults are just the start of our troubles. Remember all those vacations and flat-screens consumers put on their credit cards? Well, it's time for them to pay up...with money they don't have. C's business model was to offer plastic to every guy living under a bridge...well, it's time for C to pay up for its folly.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/96685-why-drill-baby-drill-does-not-translate-into-effective-national-energy-policy?source=feed#comment-262745 262745 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:42:29 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/95548-look-out-below?source=feed#comment-255447 255447 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:32:34 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/95499-sirius-xm-sends-privatization-signals?source=feed#comment-255444 255444 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:28:30 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/95518-fed-violates-rules-to-contain-the-damage?source=feed#comment-254993 254993 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:13:43 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/95377-is-sirius-xm-stock-being-manipulated?source=feed#comment-254422 254422 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:44:17 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/95114-how-sirius-xm-should-handle-supply-and-demand?source=feed#comment-252727 252727 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:15:54 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/94998-the-sirius-xm-disaster-the-ashes-of-the-fcc?source=feed#comment-251552 251552 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:32:05 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/93440-solar-breaks-oil-price-dependence?source=feed#comment-243073 243073
It is going to be a long(and bumpy) ride for the solars and other alts, but one which in all likelihood will be very profitable for the patient investor.]]> Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:38:38 -0400
It is going to be a long(and bumpy) ride for the solars and other alts, but one which in all likelihood will be very profitable for the patient investor.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/92708-solar-generation-costs-on-track-to-achieve-grid-parity?source=feed#comment-239303 239303 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:25:40 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/88767-housing-crisis-likely-to-wipe-out-two-decades-of-family-earned-wealth?source=feed#comment-221767 221767 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:24:13 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/88555-crude-reality-big-oil-s-purposely-restricting-supply?source=feed#comment-220712 220712 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:10:11 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/88555-crude-reality-big-oil-s-purposely-restricting-supply?source=feed#comment-220534 220534 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:25:04 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/88196-five-stocks-to-own-now-that-the-dow-has-bottomed?source=feed#comment-219727 219727 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:55:23 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/88234-what-the-sirius-xm-radio-future-may-hold?source=feed#comment-219535 219535 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:32:38 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/87377-xm-siri-marriage-is-satellite-tv-next?source=feed#comment-216554 216554 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:56:13 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/86046-yikes-but-duh-housing-bottom-could-be-two-years-off?source=feed#comment-211285 211285 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:21:14 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/85709-sirius-and-xmsr-s-six-year-prison-sentence?source=feed#comment-208661 208661 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:17:30 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/83428-while-iran-threat-keeps-oil-elevated-u-s-stocks-and-dollar-slip?source=feed#comment-197318 197318 Spiking sharply higher as uncertainty would have caused it to do in the past? No. It's slipping. Thanks, Ben, for continuing on the same course as the catatonic, sleep-walker who preceded you, Greenspan, and for keeping America on the fast track to third-world status.]]> Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:40:56 -0400 Spiking sharply higher as uncertainty would have caused it to do in the past? No. It's slipping. Thanks, Ben, for continuing on the same course as the catatonic, sleep-walker who preceded you, Greenspan, and for keeping America on the fast track to third-world status.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/83179-is-citi-s-vikram-pandit-a-robot?source=feed#comment-195936 195936
If anyone has read my previous comments they know I am a fan of Pandit, or at least not a a basher. Having not read the entire OP ED I don't know how cogent an argument Pandit makes in the whole. What I do know is the two paragraphs exhibited here are intellectually sounding but vacuous. Empty. Say nothing but the obvious.


It seems to me that Pandit used lots of big words to say he wanted regulations that worked. Well who dosen''t? Someone tell me what Pandit said beyond that that indicated what he thought should be implemented to make those regulations work? And where was his and others voices when lenders were raking in the cash by making loans that had next to zero chance of being repaid. No one gave a damm about regulation when the cash-cow was sick and dieing. They only developed a thoughtful concern when she stopped giving milk. It is all well and good to say you should have treated Elsie with abit more respect and concern after she's died, but how much insight does that take?]]> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:33:14 -0400
If anyone has read my previous comments they know I am a fan of Pandit, or at least not a a basher. Having not read the entire OP ED I don't know how cogent an argument Pandit makes in the whole. What I do know is the two paragraphs exhibited here are intellectually sounding but vacuous. Empty. Say nothing but the obvious.


It seems to me that Pandit used lots of big words to say he wanted regulations that worked. Well who dosen''t? Someone tell me what Pandit said beyond that that indicated what he thought should be implemented to make those regulations work? And where was his and others voices when lenders were raking in the cash by making loans that had next to zero chance of being repaid. No one gave a damm about regulation when the cash-cow was sick and dieing. They only developed a thoughtful concern when she stopped giving milk. It is all well and good to say you should have treated Elsie with abit more respect and concern after she's died, but how much insight does that take?]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/83179-is-citi-s-vikram-pandit-a-robot?source=feed#comment-195689 195689 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:36:16 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/82490-the-sun-s-rising-over-japanese-stocks?source=feed#comment-192002 192002
The other thing I wonder about is just how oppressive the pension obligation on Japan's government and corps is to its aging population with fewer workers to replenish the pension honey pot.]]> Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:11:37 -0400
The other thing I wonder about is just how oppressive the pension obligation on Japan's government and corps is to its aging population with fewer workers to replenish the pension honey pot.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/82371-still-no-vision-at-citigroup?source=feed#comment-191120 191120

Is Pandit a good CEO? The right man for the job? I don't know. But his job right now, is to stay afloat. He knows, I believe, there is much more potential trouble on the horizon. He may want to do more, but all he can do at the moment is bail water and hope. There are financial storms a plenty on the horizon, enormous storms. He would do well to see to it the C is not some casebook example taught in business schools of how a financial giant slipped beneath the waves.

BTW, I took a bath holding C's stock. My most precipitous losses coming under Pandit's reign. Still, you can't blame the man for this mess. Not yet, anyway.]]> Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:32:08 -0400

Is Pandit a good CEO? The right man for the job? I don't know. But his job right now, is to stay afloat. He knows, I believe, there is much more potential trouble on the horizon. He may want to do more, but all he can do at the moment is bail water and hope. There are financial storms a plenty on the horizon, enormous storms. He would do well to see to it the C is not some casebook example taught in business schools of how a financial giant slipped beneath the waves.

BTW, I took a bath holding C's stock. My most precipitous losses coming under Pandit's reign. Still, you can't blame the man for this mess. Not yet, anyway.]]>