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Is Dubai's Default a Black Swan Event?

The Black Swan has more to do with the dependent - and yet unknown - impacts, than the original event. Hence, this IS just such an event, known or not! Shrugging this off is equivalent to shrugging off the banks and letting them go under. The downstream events are HUGE.

Accounting Rule Changes Creating False Rally in Financials

"Without doubt, since fully-informed investors form only a small proportion of the capital markets, the spin and hype surrounding the “inherent evils” of the mark-to-market rule and Level 3 measurements could well take bank shares significantly higher this week."

You must be very smart to be that far ahead of the market! Are you a comedian?

Trading the Mark-to-Market Modification (Updated)

Unfortunately for most concerned, these considerations and discussions aren't getting any urgency to amend market turmoil since Treasury Secretary Geithner is not a proponent of change on this issue.

Too Big to Bail: Lehman Brothers Is the Model for Fixing the Zombie Banks

Sorry, you don't get it! You obviously do not understand "markets." Treasury is somewhere between your leftist suicide agenda and the conservative right that won't lay a finger on the banks.

When your solution is worse than the problem, it's time to keep looking. Get a clue!

Why Bank Nationalization Will Never Happen

Have you noticed the recent PR push by regional banks separating themselves from the large ones? That they are running things in their respective audience markets just fine? That the banking system would be just fine without their larger brethren?

If our economies are global linked, just how do these regional institutions serve any purpose whatsoever in that regard? Do they acquire the international operations of the so-called insolvent masters?

I find this laughable.

I also find it laughable that many readers here see a comparison of RTC to the current crisis. Obviously, CNBC is a popular source of financial information but any ignorance bred from such dependence is the public's own downfall.

Lehman was a very small piece of the financial puzzle. That alone should make conservatives think. Also, differentiating the investor from the taxpayer is lost upon me.

This author finally looks at the dilemma with these issues in mind. Whether or not nationalization is on the table hardly makes it a viable solution.

Wake up America! Or we will all be experiencing the bread lines we never thought possible.

Nationalizing the U.S. Banking Sector: There's No Choice

Aside from doing the nationalization deed which is clearly a worse solution than the problem on a "net effect" basis, it's time we realized that the TAXPAYER and INVESTOR are actually one and the same.

Until we get that right, no nationalistic approach is going to understand WHY its a worse solution than the problem!

I think financial bloggers have found their "optimal traffic impact" topic by pushing this button over and over again. It's getting boring!

What happened to Morgan Stanley's insolvency back in September? They now seem to be the darling with the best prospects!

Bank of America and Citigroup will redirect their business models as well - with a lot of help from INVESTING TAXPAYERS. The result will be another horse rising from the dead.

Is Nationalization Contagious?

If you don't know the answer to that question, it shows exactly why you misunderstand the original problem with the choices of solutions - and why nationalization was NEVER a feasible option. A little problem like Lehman and those impacts should wake you up to the reality of nationalizing BofA or Citi. That's assuming that only one or a few can be "executed" that way - WHICH THEY CAN'T without causing more harm than good.

Let me put it this way... you might as well wipe out the financial system and every market in existence. The impact would be the same.