Just Say Whoa!

Putting the REIT Maturity Crunch into Perspective

The First Rule of Fight Club is that People with Deep Pockets don't talk about their losses in CRE.

How Bailouts Are Messing with Capitalism

>"We're tinkering with the genetic DNA of a capitalist society."

Oh, Boo Hoo Hoo!

Hoover didn't bailout banks. He let them fail--hundreds and hundreds of banks failed.

As Doctor Phil would say, "How's that working out for ya?"

The whole point of bailing out banks is because it was one of the *major* mistakes to let banks fail that caused the Great Depression.

DOH!!!!!

While Financials Drag Markets Down, Five Ways to Stay in Play

>I feel like such a chump.

What's matter?

Are the policies of the past 28 years, i.e. Deregulation & Tax Cuts for Billionaires Trickling Down to the Not So Rich not working out for ya?

Privatize the Banks, Already

Facist Capitalism is where businesses control the government.

Wasn't that the whole philosophy behind the past 28 years?

Put the industry in charge of regulatining itself.

Let business do anything--they will always make the right decisions!

That's Facism and I didn't hear your partisan political party complaining about it for the past 28 years...



> There is nothing absurd about the current state of affairs. We have
> Fascist Capitalism, period.

Time to Buy Bank Stocks

I remember when people on this board were talking about Citibank about how cheap it was at $25 a share.

Today's price: $3.61.

BTW, if you're a US taxpayer, you've already bought banks.

And this is just the beginning...

Why Capping Pay Is Likely to Work

I just don't understand how the bottom 99% can survive on a salary of less than $500K a year, <snort, snort>.

Pass me another gold-encrusted croisant, Jeeves...