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Financials Getting Slaughtered

Can you elaborate on these few "emergency changes that would straighten out this mess?


On Feb 18 08:13 AM eddie6442 wrote:

> It's becoming more apparent every day that some very powerful people
> want the US economy to crater. When all it would take are a few "emergency"
> accounting & regulation changes to alleviate the downward spiral
> to "catastrophe, anyone with half a brain can figure this out! <br/>It's
> logic 101 : If A, then B.............
>
> SIMPLE!!!!!!!!
>
> IMHO

Will Government Stimulus Actually Work? That's a Tough Question

Our currency will take a hit only if we are the only nation doing this kind of spending, but the whole world is in this mess and will be firing up their own printing presses, jeeze I love hearing about the need for government fiscal responsibility.... especially when I think what great job our private industries have done in this area especially in banking and investment firms what a joke!


On Feb 17 06:49 AM CautiousInvestor wrote:

> It is not an economic stimulus nor is it some type of national recovery
> act.
>
> It is a massive spending bill designed to assuage the pain of the
> the downturn on the less unfortunate; the first step in fulfilling
> campaign promises to redistribute the "economic pie"; and a continuation
> of spending money on pet projects favored by the present congress.

>
>
> It's major stimulative effect will be to stimulate additional borrowing
> and raise the national debt. Longer-term, it is likely to stimulate
> a deterioration in our currency.

Bailout Nation

Those bail outs not even close to what's happening now.

Back to the Future in the Credit Derivative Time Machine

Jeez, this real estate downturn is hardly a meltdown and mild so far compared to early nineties. Banana republic??

Housing Market Tracker - Are We Suffering From a 'Recession Depression'?

Were there CDOs in the previous downturns?

Back to the Future in the Credit Derivative Time Machine

OK they way I understand it is that someone created and bought these time bombs fully knowing that in a slow down or in a contraction they would wreck havoc. I mean wasn't there full disclosure about the risks of these CDOs in various market environments and the brightest minds in finance understood this? Aren't these things in pensions and related to money markets? Shouldn't somebody be going to jail? Am I missing something here?

Ready for U.S. Banks To Be Nationalized?

Oh And please, Let's make sure the Country wide guy gets his 36 million and that's right we'll blame the government for these incompetent HB&Bs blunders.

How To Profit From The Visa IPO Before It Goes Public?

Why wouldn't visa and MC for that matter be the next shoe to drop with this credit crunch. I'm not saying they aren't great cash cows but I don't want them at 7xs book even in a normal market.

Everyone Needs a Lottery Ticket: Mine is Called Excellon Resources

Absolutely brilliant title. What a great idea for marketing. I'm not be facetious. Wait till Madison ave and wall st see. You should copyright it.

Everyone Needs a Lottery Ticket: Mine is Called Excellon Resources

Absolutely brilliant title.

Why I'm Betting on Advanced Micro Devices - For Now

This whole Vista gui thing is playing off the GPU? How does AMD fit into the hand held ares? Thanks for a great column.

Why I'm Betting on Advanced Micro Devices - For Now

What is your feeling on the ATI piece? I can't believe that that isn't key to their long term plans and may help explain their move?? Any feel on how that merge is going?