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John Paulson's Hedge Fund Position Updates

He's a bottom feeder not an investor.

U.S. Government Practices Restrict Jobs Growth

Caveat: I like Steve>>

I started to type up a lengthy comment about how the heck anyone who neither works or lives here anymore can lecture us from his podium on a cruise ship in the Indian Ocean on why there are no jobs here anymore, but then I stopped.

No where does he mention that those jobs were created by small businesses who depended on credit that was being supplied by financial scenarios that some did not like. When the few pundits and shorts finally convinced everyone that we SHOULD not live that way anymore, then all those jobs created just vanished. Remember we were at only 4.5 % unemployment when Lehman's was forced down. (Even the 30's didn't produce such high unemployment is such a quick period of time. Also, try to remember that the Crash of '29 eventually CAUSED the depression. This time we CAUSED the awful recession and THEN tanked the markets.)

I ran apparel factories in the south that employed well over 2,500 eager workers. In late 1999 it no longer could fight the American compulsion with getting Guchi fashion at Loehman's prices. Americans don't want to work at salary levels equal to 3rd World Nations, but we want to buy the hell out of their products. The small businesses that emerged over the past 15 years need expanded and easy leverage and credit. When the shorts wanted all that needed leverage out of the system so they could cover their positions in the monolines and banks - our financial institutions were forced to withdraw all that credit & leverage over night.

This lesson still has not been learned, and all Fed bashing, etc. will be meaningless. Our psyche has been hurt and we need whatever stimulus we can get to get our mojo back. We also desperately need for all the negativity by pundits sponsored by short-term traders/traitors TO STOP!

Note to Jamie Dimon: Repetition Doesn't Create Truth

I posted this earlier:

<<Jamie Dimon penned an op-ed piece for The Washington Post, arguing that the "term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary," and that the industry should pay its fair share.>>

Jamie should learn to keep his fat mouth shut, imo! JPM was just one step away from going the same way that Lehman's and even Bear did. Last March no bank was safe and if we hadn't put an end to the insanity by eliminating M2M, among other things - well the so-called suspect rally would never have occurred and we all would be lighting campfires next to our tents in Squatter City!

The shorts that took us all to the brink last year saw no qualms about driving even the mighty JPM down to $15.00 - it would have gone lower if things in macro hadn't changed.

Jamie would better serve his share holders (of which I am one) by getting our damn dividend back, keeping his mouth shut, buying back stock, and going after the shorts that still destroy this stock almost everyday at 10:40am.

Too Big to Fail: The Real Choice

<<Jamie Dimon penned an op-ed piece for The Washington Post, arguing that the "term 'too big to fail' must be excised from our vocabulary," and that the industry should pay its fair share.>>

Jamie should learn to keep his fat mouth shut, imo! JPM was just one step away from going the same way that Lehman's and even Bear did. Last March no bank was safe and if we hadn't put an end to the insanity by eliminating M2M, among other things - well the so-called suspect rally would never have occurred and we all would be lighting campfires next to our tents in Squatter City!

The shorts that took us all to the brink last year saw no qualms about driving even the mighty JPM down to $15.00 - it would have gone lower if things in macro hadn't changed.

Jamie would better serve his share holders (of which I am one) by getting our damn dividend back, keeping his mouth shut, buying back stock, and going after the shorts that still destroy this stock almost everyday at 10:40am.

Algae Biofuels Have a Promising Future

The issue is not the fuels but what machinery or engines can run or use those fuels efficiently! Well - Capstone Turbine makes EXTREMELY efficient micro-turbines that will run almost anything.

www.capstoneturbine.com/

I hate plugging stocks, but someone needs to pay attention to a real energy solution.

Excitement Could Fade Again After Another Toll Brothers Earnings Surprise

Just little over 1 year ago we allowed all those pundits and short sellers to double the unemployment rate in 3 months. We went from 4.5% (high but acceptable) in September '08 to 9% in 3 months.
Why did we allow this unprecedented rate?
Why have we not addressed the conditions that allow a few to bash and destroy through trading schemes that should be prosecuted under RICO Statutes?
Why do we all continue to allow a few to force us into Armegeddon 2?

Revised Tax Rules:

1. Capital gains under <6 months - 55% tax on capital gains
2. Capital gains 6 > 12 months - 45% tax on capital gains
3. Capital gains 1 > 2 years - 35% tax on capital gains
4. Capital gains 2 > 5 years - 18% tax on capital gains
5. Capital gains 5+ years - 5% tax on capital gains
6. Most critical of all — Institute a capital gains tax of 55% on ALL short sales not directly tied to a long buy by a licensed hedge fund. I'm tired of paying for the pure shorts 3rd vacation home.

Another Wall Street Fraud, With Few Consequences

What about the despicable fraud perpetrated on all of us with "The Shorting of America" through the manipulation of M2M and abusive naked shorting?
Where is the outcry to get the 'Gang of 5' shorties who caused all this?

Barrington Raises Sirius XM Price Target on Q3 Report

This market is so broken and manipulated, nothing matters that much anymore.

Are Oil and Natural Gas Cheap or Expensive?

my bad.


On Nov 08 05:19 PM mountain view wrote:

> The word you are looking for is "glean."

The Importance of Positive EBITDA to Sirius XM Shareholders

The only thing of importance is for Cramer to stop his orchestrated destruction of this company. I still vomit every time I see the Vonage ticker symbol go by (never owned it), and see what Cramer's fat mouth did to what should have been a viable and growing company. Negativity is contagious!

Dispelling Myths About the Stock Market and Precious Metals

I assume you all remember this line:

"I welcome any enterprise that increases my stake in it!"

www.youtube.com/watch?...

Dispelling Myths About the Stock Market and Precious Metals

Unfortunately, the connection between the stock market and other parts of our society, mainly the elusive ‘Main St.’, has become a far more important connection. When we allowed a few short sellers to bring down our financial institutions, the confidence in our system almost destroyed the rest of us. This handful of narcissistic, Generation Me shorties have developed trading strategies that do nothing more then enrich their own pockets and create nothing in return. “Creative destruction”, ala Gordon Gecko era, that at least created something out of the mire they caused. The David Einhorn’s of today’s world do nothing for the greater good or for any good… except their own that is. When he was allowed to naked short Lehman’s into the toilet, we should have learned our lesson, but we didn’t. Now he is shorting the dollar into the toilet, just so that his large gold position increases in value.
This time when he brings it all down he will bring us ALL down with it and not just a few brokerage houses.

Are Oil and Natural Gas Cheap or Expensive?

So is it expensive or cheap? I really can't gleem your answer.

What I do read into it is that if NG is SO expensive to process, not as clean and plentiful as thought, and SO hard to get to, then why the heck is it trading SO cheap?

Credit Crisis Continues as Companies, Banks Hoard Cash

Banks are hoarding cash! Do you blame them?

If someone were constantly telling me I was going broke and would soon be insolvent and that every loan I have was worthless and that every mortgage I had would not get paid – I too would do everything I could to avoid the pundit bashing and the pending Armageddon.

You can’t have it both ways. You wanted all the leverage needed to back all those loans to be withdrawn basically overnight, then you demanded that the banks basically have DOLLAR for DOLLAR backstops on all the loans and accounts they did have, BUT now you want them to loan out the very money that you DEMANDED them to keep.

WHAT HYPOCRISY!

What's the Fair Value for the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

Unfortunately there are many who feel that the gambling we have allowed to prosper in our markets is a legitimate way of adding liquidity into the market. BULL--IT!!!! The ones that think that all that trading and market manipulation is good for companies and our Nation as a whole, can only be the ones that fight tooth and nail every time someone wants to limit their insanity. Some even claim it's 'trickle down' economics. Really should rename that to 'pissing away' economics!

Just go 2 comments above and you'll see the real insanity. TAX these short-term option traders/traitors up the ying-yang and maybe they'll stop.


On Nov 02 12:54 PM logicalman wrote:

> jim bob jones.....a lot have done exactly what you are saying, and
> most of them have lost their shirts....decide for yourself whether
> you are an INVESTOR or GAMBLER..if the former, do your homework and
> with an average iq. you will do well, if the latter, go to VEGAS,
> your chances will be much better there!!!