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Debating the Lehman Collapse

Sorry for my little "rant" above. It just seem!ed like it was time to cut the crap here and let nature take its course.

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

Let Lehman Fail

I am thinking the Lehman maybe the "end of the beginning." We need to have the system clean itself. I think that the problems have just gotten too large to hide or kick down the road to the next person. It is a sad day to be sure. How could a generation that started so optimistic ended up being so jaded. We shall see...normally all this government intervention does take hold..at some point....but...this looks like it has already taken on a life of its own. Glad I live in Oregon...that is all I can say.

Debating the Lehman Collapse

This whining from you people on Wall Street about "naked short selling" is a joke...right?

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

Bond Expert: Monday Wrap

You have to "love" the "thinking" of User250718 here.

I am thinking he must work on Wall Street...(evil smile). We can take paper and make money then use that paper to make more "money" and then it will all be good.

This is the type of thinking that got us all here in the first place. "MoneyforNothing" and the debt payments for free...isn't that how that song goes?

It is sure "financial innovation" at its finest.

How about we nationalism them and break them up. While Greenspan is for sure going to get rich on that deal along with Bill Gross it seems to be to be the way to go. Get small....

In the Wake of Bear: I-Bank Regulation Now in Fed's Hands

This is a well reasoned argument. I am but a very small business person from...well... But, it seems to me that if the Fed is going to go racing around with what in essence is taxpayer money to provide "emergency" equity funding to an investment bank then Wall Street will have to accept that regulations that come with the "help." I am thinking the argument about "game over" for Hedge Funds is correct.