the final horseman

The Rally is Coming: Always Buy Too Soon

good advice column for the brain dead. 100 years from now, everything will be fine.

Paulson's Plan: Too Late in the Boondoggle

the fix seems simple to me...burn all the rating companies and all of their employees alive.

maybe the next set will be a bit more cautious.

same holds for our beloved politicians, ad infinitum ad nauseum...

who ever decided a lawyer could be a little tin god? (i shouldnt really say this...its a waste of good tin.)

im waiting for whispers of 'taxpayer revolt' to waft throught the upcoming spring season.

Requiem for a Departing Economic System

bravo holmes...now all we need to do is draw our pistols and hold the professor at bay!!!!!!!!!!

28 days? 28 months? 28 years? has anyone determined exactly how long all this debt will take to pay back?

i still think the treasury should issue t-bills to the various and nefarious government agencies in lieu of electronic money for accounts payable. this way, we use up fewer electronic dots because the numbers are larger.

the agencies can then issue payments in t-bills and...the receivers of said faux cash can now say that, like the us savings bond...they invested in the past of america. (notice--i said past...not future.)

to invest in our future this way, the fed would need to issue counterfeit chinese t-bills. this doesnt matter, because the Fed cannot be taken to international court.

bingo....i should be sitting in the catbird seat...full of the previous owner's catbird droppings.

mail me a t-bill. i can use it to buy a soft drink and a burger...or...burritos... at least i can use the paper to wipe parts of my anatomy afterwards. i wish i had invested in zimbabwe t-bills.

then i could sell them to the fed for 28 days. just think of the money i could lose for them if the exchange rate were fixed at day one of the transfer.

extend this over the real amount of time these t-bills will stay in banker hands...and i could move to another unmentioned country and tata my way down roads soon to be fixed.

and they tell me creative accounting is a no no....perhaps ben should issue t-bills to the irs to pay our taxes. then we might be able to provide our own economic stimulus. after all, the purpose of the irs is to increase government revenue. if the fed sends the irs t-bills, they have just eliminated the need for us citizenry, the government can run on perfect autopilot...and....we can all become reverse wetbacks to mexico as long as we provide our own body armor and fully automatic weapons.

Why Won't the Fed Let Free Markets Do Their Job?

one thing i keep noticing: no one looks at the condition (the actual physical condition---the condition upon which a real estate appraisal value is based). some of these homes are gutted. no wiring, no plumbling, no fixtures, no marble counter tops...NADA..ZILCH...Z... uh folks....methinks said and aforementioned properties are worth a BUNCH less then the books show.

i know relatively nothing about high finance...but i do know building supplies are not cheap. so...given )house value in a ledger)-(union labor costs + supply costs ) means the property is worth a ton less then the ledger value says it is. multiply this by 1000 000 homes...and tears + blood + pain start oozing out of lenders vaults.

anyone have comments...if so, please tell me where i made the math error.

What's Wrong with this Economic Picture?

at least the FED will be smug in its approach to bamboozle the american people...or what's left of us.

Is the Fed Keeping Inflation Under Wraps?

lol the only way to appease inflation is through burnt offerings.

like maybe the folks who run the fed. at least 30 years in prison with no chance of parole would suffice. perhaps the next group may learn their lesson....perhaps

Can We Bury the Middle Class Income Myths?

Obviously this was a cheap way for you to publish or perish. Get real. "A man drowned in an average of six inches of water." Is Helicopter Ben paying you? Or one or both of the major political parties?

You sound like the poster boy for 'Piled Higher and Deeper'.

Should the Government Partially Refinance Mortgages?

better yet...force the homeowners to refinance with us savings bonds. then these useless pieces of paper will never mature, our beloved legislators can all retire to china, and the us dollar/zimbabwe dollar will be on par until the end of days.

Flow of Funds Report: Maybe Bernanke Is Onto Something

i think there was a very slight typo. should read ON something instead of ONTO something

Freefall Fed Policies?

nice commentary, rush. no politician, bureaucrat, fiduciary big shot, fed type or anyone else involved will ever respond properly.

there is no problem. so many of these types are probably on the take, nothing will ever matter, change or get resolved properly.

where is western justice when we need it? our beloved legislators buried it along with the western, the old west and america. they figure the american 'sheeple' will simply forget.

i cant seem to find my companions: confusion, famine and war. anyone who knows of their whereabouts, pls drop me a line. i dont want to be late for the big fireworks display...coming sooner then you think to your local neighborhood.

Ben Bernanke's Tightrope Act

and whoever actually pays money to read about how big al takes no blame for his actions deserves to be fleeced

Ben Bernanke's Tightrope Act

who exactly decided the fed was supposed to support wall street? its original purpose was to control inflation...obviously helicopter ben failed miserably

Ben Bernanke's Tightrope Act

greenspan and greenspan junior should be tried and hung. volker was the only sensible man in the office.

wilson made the usa an anarchy according to t. jefferson..you remember him...he is on the nickel altho they cut off part of his face now. keyesian economics came from hamilton,,,not jefferson...so lets get real here

U.S. in 2008: A Chance to Learn From Japan's Lost Decade

will someone please pass this onto the democrats before they raise taxes? talk about the end of days....heh heh heh

When Will China Overtake the U.S. Economically?

uh...think about this scenario folks...with 2 trillion bucks, the chinese just have to buy or secure our farmland via futures contracts with the farmers directly. think the next century...

the arabs bought PWI

i am probably wrong...but i dont remember more acreage added to the world landmass...and even less as farmable.

once this happens, they own us...the heck with the companies...companies come and go.