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Coming Soon: The $600 Trillion Derivatives Emergency Meeting
Seems like a plan to defuse them as carefully as possible is in order.
Nine Adult Entertainment Stocks to Weather the Recession
In Defense of the Paulson Plan
If you were to read the text of the bill the administration sent to Congress (which I wonder if this writer did) it really has only two provisions. First, give Paulson $700 billion of taxpayer money next see what happens.
Oppose the Treasury's Bailout Plan
It seems to me that if you want to take out insurance policies when you do not really have an insurable interest...(like me taking out a life insurance policy on you for example) you should get a haircut as well.
Oppose the Treasury's Bailout Plan
Oppose the Treasury's Bailout Plan
I agree that in theory the RTC II should not do deals with other wise "healthy" financial service companies. Reasonable restrictions along the line suggested here are critical. I have one more.. in the event any company sells assets to RTC II they should contractually agree that neither that company or anyone of their behalf make can make campaign contributions to those that control or regulate RTC II,
This is a critical element. One of the issues on RTC was that it assumed assets when they were dirt...and then they were lobbied to unload the assets before they really achieved their full value for the taxpayers.
We also need a constitutional amendment to stop the unlimited campaign spending that has turned the Congress into supplicants to the bankers and finance industry among others.
SEC Bans Shorting Financials
Wall Street's New Realities
This should be an interim step with a plan to re-establish the "firewalls" that were put in place after 1929. They were put there for good reason as we are now seeing. Not sure we can or should go back to that but to be sure there have to be regulations on the amount of leverage these companies can use...that was the problem in 29 and it is the problem once again.
Debating the Lehman Collapse
Gramps2, great posts! I do not know who you are but you seem to know what you are talking about... It is the tone of someone who has been there..done that. Keep them up/1
FDIC Insurance Fund - It Doesn't Actually Exist
Let Lehman Fail
Debating the Lehman Collapse
I mean really..for the last eight years with the SEC with a "bell around its neck", "the deregulation" of the financial industry, "financial innovation" (aka making up money), a tax structure you could only dream about 15 years ago..you had one hell of a party. Now the chickens have come to roost and you want Uncle Sugar...meaning people like me who are small business people who were working our asses off building real companies, taking real risks...like putting up our homes, selling assets to raise investment money to save your arses, again! Let me think about...NO.
I have been in favor of "saving Freddie and Fannie" they did get too big to fail..also Bear...it would have been too much of a shock to the system...but at some point someone has to hit the wall...and Lehman seems as good a place to start as any where.
This will end once the short sellers get their asses kicked on one of these...(which they will not). Until then I hate to be the one to tell you this....party over.
disclosure...short the S&P 500 and Russell 2000
What's Going Well, and What's Not
Commercial Banking and Bank Failures
Freddie/Fannie Plans In Motion; Why Are They Being Underplayed?
Copperbaron above thinks we are going to see the market open on the upside here. That is my thinking as well. If you looked at what created the "rallies" we have seen this year in each case it was due to government action that was going to "solve the problem." That of course is a lot of BS...but in the short run it worked for a bit.
I am very interested in how people think the markets will react to this when they open in Asia, Europe and the US on Monday. Anyone else want to take a shot at this?