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  • AIG Must Not Fail! - Cramer's Stop Trading! (9/15/08) [View article]
    Cramer:

    "Why blame the government?

    Because this stuff as so known and so obviously in the cards that you have to wonder whether perhaps the government has some marching orders from the president to do nothing until after every collapse -- nothing that is preventive."

    Well Cramer, here is a little Politics 101:

    We would all love to receive a crisp $1,000 bill in our mailbox daily, courtesy of everyone else (read: taxpayers). Personally, I think that would be just the cat's meow.

    However, in an election year that's like wishing for World Peace. It's just not going to happen, even if it were the right thing to do (and its not), because it would be political suicide for McCain in particular and the Republicans in general, and of course Bush knows this.

    The music has stopped, the dance is over, and its time to find a seat.
    Sep 15 23:30 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • AIG Must Not Fail! - Cramer's Stop Trading! (9/15/08) [View article]
    Here is a good article from

    www.riskglossary.com/l...

    An excerpt:

    "Analyzing CDOs is difficult. Not only is there an entire portfolio of credits to analyze, in managed deals, an investor won't know what collateral will be purchased. On top of this is the added complexity of the tranching, which must also be analyzed. Sophisticated portfolio credit risk models should be used. Needless to say, there is much potential for manipulation or abuse by sponsors."

    Its no wonder the stock of the 'sponsors' like LEH and WM is going to zero - no investor can even figure out what these companies own, so they've decided it's all toxic waste.

    Unfortunately this will hit the debt holders the hardest - people who because of their bad financial decisions, assisted by the mortgage crooks, will be slaves to their debt obligations - the banks - for years to come: a return to American Slavery.
    Sep 15 22:23 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • AIG Must Not Fail! - Cramer's Stop Trading! (9/15/08) [View article]
    Cramer at 10:47 AM EDT on Black Monday (9/15/08)

    "... Lots of high-multiple stocks are going down; they'll probably bounce later in the day."

    OOPS - Wrong again!
    Sep 15 20:36 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • AIG Must Not Fail! - Cramer's Stop Trading! (9/15/08) [View article]
    Widespread rants of a fool: "AIG is too big to fail" reminds me of the infamous "Even God himself could not sink this ship."

    Just never forget that these are HIGHLY LEVERAGED DERIVATIVES and the investors do not know their value, least of all Jim Cramer (therefore, they are worthless toxic waste.) I hate to be the bearer of bad news: LEH going to zero is but a foretaste of things to come.

    "Somehow the banks will survive."
    from: 'A Prophetic Vision of the 21st Century' by Rick Joyner, 1999
    Sep 15 20:19 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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