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Credit Card Clampdown

Just say No.

Moody's, Fitch, S&P, SEC Are All Useless

Dleverage, are you sure that his broad brush call was as abusive? Or are you loaded to the gills with long positions and got caught out?
I do believe that if the only one's who got it right were the naked shorts because the rest of us were caught up in our own portfolios to see the bigger picture then what?

Surveying the Carnage

Could we even suggest there were no such things as balance sheets?

Disclosure from Financials? I Call B.S.

And what do various investors say? IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT DON'T BUY IT!!! Actually, I much prefer a certain Horror writer from way back that said in " The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward":
" Do not call up that which you cannot put down."

Bear Stearns Conspiracy Watch: Bloomberg Piles It On

So my buying 'puts' puts me into league with those nasty evil 'speculators' does it? Kind of like when I go and sell some stock befor a major stock price dump makes me an 'inside trader'?

That Sucking Sound? It's FDIC Insurance Taking Over

Those who are being referred to as needing a real job are not on welfare as the above is referring to but people that are making a lot more than those on welfare. Gee, you mean some of the middle class, even though they are working may not be so intelligent? Again, the dumbing down has even effected numeracy. If you have teachers who are "uncomfortable teaching math" as one teacher told me then what do we say? I have heard this tripe from people who supposedly went to teachers college to get a piece of paper to teach mazth or what have you and they are AFRAID of it!! There is where the dumbing down has led us.....

More Problems for the Ailing Financial Sector?

"corrections" seem to overcorrect, upsiders overdo the upside, bears tend to take a swipe at everything. Again, no matter how much we say we have the facts we end up speaking through our emotions. No surprise here.