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Start Your Own Personal Hedge Fund (and Pay Yourself the 2 & 20)

well thoughtout strategy with good examples. Keep up the good work!

Is Being Bearish About the U.S. Market Unpatriotic?

I cannot understand what 'patriotism' has to do with the market. An investor or a trader just thinks one thing - $$$$. Patriots don't send you $$$$. Find good businesses and invest - you may not get GE at this price 2 years from now.

Last week, a former investigator of the S&L scandal told Bill Moyers Journal that CEOs of many of America's largest banks knowingly engaged in the fraud which has now brought the economy to the brink of catastrophe. Some say the government's failure so far to investigate any wrongdoing "is a much larger scandal that the bonuses being paid by AIG or anybody else."

i agree with you. I don't think anyone in his/her right mind would have allowed the level of leveraging- but that's history. However history should also record who profited by this wheather they were inocent dumb people who did not understand the consequences of massive leverage and securitized 'worthless' bonds!

Top Growth Market of the Week: Indonesia

it's hardly an analysis of IF. Explain why it is or not a good investment.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

HOW IRONIC THAT AUTO HELP HAS FAILED. FINANCIALS WERE HELPED BECAUSE THEY WERE THE ONES WHO PASSED AND ALLOWED UNPRECEDENED LEVERAGE TO FINANCIALS AND GOT US INTO THIS HISTORIC MESS.
AUTOS MUST BE HELPED AND FIXED-HUNDREDS OF THOUSAND LIVES DEPEND ON THEM. PUNISH THOSE WHO CREATED AND BENEFITED FROM THE FINANCIAL MESS. IT IS IMPORTANT. YOU DON'T GIVE BONUSES FOR BAD PERFOMANCE - ONLY IN AMERICA!

Major Yahoo (YHOO) shareholder Ivory Investment Management sends a letter to YHOO's board pressuring it to do a search deal with Microsoft (MSFT), which it says could bring in as much as $15B.

This is fine but I cannot understand why the Microsoft offer of $31 was not voted on by the shareholders who are the owners of YHOO. It seems Yang took s/hs for granted and dictated what he felt like.

Citigroup: The End Draws Near

couldn't agree more with you. Endless yapping on the likes of cnbc by people little knowledge move stocks up or kill them. Their off the cuff chatter has turned investing into gambling.


On Nov 21 11:47 PM slickvguy wrote:

> Another jerk piling on. (Disclosure: not long or short C).
> This is a big part of the problem. People on the net and TV yapping
> endlessly about things they know nothing about.

"The U.S. government could hand GM (GM) a tremendous sum of money and watch it be burned up in the fire of management's stupidity," Doug McIntyre writes. But the company is probably worth more in pieces. "Its best operations could be sold off without legacy obligation."

the big AUTO COMPANIES have to be saved. At stake is not the money only but also jobs and livelihoods of many thousands. While the gov't can help with $ in the interim, the unions, the executives and other employees MUST make significant concessions to save their jobs and their companies.
What a lesson to be learnt!

BCE Inc.'s LBO Banks: Where's the Common Sense?

A DEAL IS A DEAL IS A DEAL. WHAT IF THE MKT PRICE HAD GONE TO $49? AI

Where We Go from Here: Best and Worst Cases

Wall Streeters at high levels should be blamed. They created and bundled subprime derivities with AAA fake ratings and worthless realestate and on top of it took home big bonuses, Where do u buy your bonds from? You rely on the rating agencies and those who advise you.

Where We Go from Here: Best and Worst Cases

...and one more thing- sensible lending practices. Begin re-regulations of banking and brokerage houses and insurance companies. No more Lehmans and Aigs.
And don't forget to punish those who brought us this 'financial tsunami' including Greenspan and company.
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@VIC: Leon Cooperman on "The Investing Climate & All-Weather Stocks"

YES AMERICA IS ON SALE. WHY ISN'T THE GOVT.BUYING THESE JEWELS AT A BARGAIN PRICE AND INDUCE SOME CONFIDENCE?
IN BAD BAD TIMES, FORGET CAPITALISM AS THE PROCESS OF NATIONALISATION HAS ALREADY BEGUN IN U.S.A. AND UK. THIS IS THE PRICE TO BE PAID FOR UNCONTROLLED DEREGULATIONS AND GREED. IF AMERICA WON'T BUY AMERICA, SOMEONE ELSE WILL SO...............

Government Intervention and the Irony of Modern Capitalism

How about government releasing some $$ to buying Great companies Cheap before foreign monies take these jewels away? It will also inject the much needed confidence. No more foolish deregulations and induced leverage and punish those that took everybody to the cleaners.

How to Spend $700B and Actually Solve the Problem

brilliant idea but this mess is so wide spread that providing credit only will not solve the problem. I think the choices are limited to just save the situation from disaster. And dont forget to punish those who got us into this massive mess including the ceos, the regulators and the works . They should have to pay in $ they made or unethically earned.