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    • Mon Sep 29th 17:34 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Don’t Blame Wall Street - At Least Not Completely
      This article is so chock full of delusional statements it's ridiculous. The dynamic going on really only needs a few sentences to summarize. Self-absorbed baby boomers have suckled at the nipple of cheap oil and lived large off of their parents largesse and their children's and other countries credit for 30+ years leaving gen X with less than nothing. Wall Street/Washington is merely a manifestation of the boomer's inability to live within their means and assigning blame is meaningless and I don't think many people seriously do. However, the gap between the have's and have-not's is peaking and gen X has been forced to harden and is slowly fighting back as the boomers fade. This extreme gap will be forced to shrink either via democratic or fascist populism and a more conservative generation living less large and rebuilding the country from the inside out will have much less need for the Wall Street products of the past 30 years and as a consequence Wall Street's size and importance will contract massively. Quite possibly gen X's undisciplined children will sell off their parents efforts and their children's future during the next cycle.
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    • Wed Sep 24th 21:03 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Don't Panic

      There is no panic on 'main street'. The equation is simple as it was in the 1920's: The now very large percentage of have-not's have little to lose and the now very small percentage of have's have much to lose. The lesson of history is that populism only conquers capitalism during these extreme imbalances. Congress is getting the message that it is time to deflate, massively, and we'll work this out on the streets.
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    • Tue Sep 16th 23:05 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Nationalization of AIG
      It seems there can be only one way they will play this out. They pushed marking to market Fannie and Freddie's debt until the end of '09 and now they have pushed AIG's out until the end of '10. It's unpalatable and not in the plan to put FNM's/FRE's debt in the government budget and they will liquidate AIG and never exercise their option for 80% ownership(of the debt most importantly). They simply will have to print/inflate massively in all sections of the economy over the next 2(or n with extensions) years to trivialize this insurance debt with all the global economic consequences that could/will entail. Get in TIPS soon until of course they cancel the program as insolvent!
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    • Sun Aug 17th 08:48 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      What's Changed on the Seeking Alpha Website?
      So, is there an estimate on when an author/date sort will be available again?
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    • Wed Aug 13th 19:55 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      What's Changed on the Seeking Alpha Website?
      Hi David -

      It seems the common theme running through the comments here are generalists versus specialists. Your previous blogroll appealed to generalists and these are the people making the comments here; I would keep an author/date organization with less-targeted ads for us generalists and the more highly-sorted organization for the specialists with the more lucrative, highly-targeted ads you desire. You win both ways.
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    • Tue Aug 12th 20:08 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      What's Changed on the Seeking Alpha Website?
      Certainly seems over-edited. All the categorization has a bit of value, but searching is still simpler than figuring out the editor's nomenclature. If you could, please provide the old blogroll format with opinions and analysis by date and author. Why is it everybody seems to be feeling the need to regress to over-edited pages these days?
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    • Fri Jul 18th 07:03 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      'Dark Knight' Brings IMAX's Potential to Light
      Google's stock price probably doesn't need IMAX'ing today, yes?
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