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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

If you need to look for guilty party (s) here are my candidates:
1. Chris Dodd or is it "Dudd" and Barney Frankes are the arhitects of mortgage disaster should imo join the architect of Enron debacle;
2. George "no veto" Bush who betrayed his constituency and didn't learn much from his personal experience of S&L meltdown.

At least the Exxon skipper was drunk....

Banking Sector: Band-Aids Just Won't Do It

Why do you say "Washington Mutual (WaMu) will go into receivership the week of 07/28/08?" What makes you say that? - because BDS holds August puts, that is why.

Economics, financial sanity and morality are out in the elections years. I wonder if there are coming back after.

Bank Executive Compensation and the Bailout

User 138602 - not that I disagree with you, but what, if anything, do suggest as a constructive plan of action? Executive compensations are unrealistic, unconscionable, and promote wrong behavior for all participants of corporate and civic process. I do understand the motivations of the boards to keep the status quo, but I totally do not understand behavior of institutional investment managers who are showing decimal results for their efforts. Is it a conspiracy of incompetent?

Under The Radar News - Wednesday

Re Politician wants to age-limit energy drinks. That would be a first step in a right direction - legalize drugs. Just imagine positive impact on our economy if we would stop wasting billions on unnecessary law enforcement, military operations abroad, and jailing millions of people. Well, that would be too sane, never mind.

Dividend Aristocrats: Top Dividend Growers

Notsosmart - your website link does not point correctly (I assume). You may want to check it.