Did ya hear people are buying U.S. Treasuries? Its a flight to quantity. (I made that one up myself)
I disagree. The reason the market is down is because it isn't worth more than this right now. It might even be overvalued
You can draw an analogy between the economics of the country and the economics of a family: You and your wife both make a nice income. You...
Hey John McCain, You said we would "know their names". The pork pushers had the gall put wooden arrows, rum, film and television production on...
You are off a bit on your mathematics, agassi. If you cancel out six zero's, you get $85000/200 = $425 per person. Common mistake,...
Truly unbelievable. If you ranked the assholes most responsible for this clusterfuck and stuffed them in a phone booth, counting down...
It is beginning to feel like a mine field. Any crazy unpredictable thing can happen which will set off giant market moves. Overall, I can't...
The general public may be 50% for/against the bail out, but properly leveraged through exotic but illiquid derivatives it can easily be made...
Just thinking out loud, but what if the Gov allowed people an exemption from withdrawal penalties on money taken out of an IRA or 401k to pay...
They would need pass it so that it would take effect 12 years down the road. That way they wouldn't feel the ill effects, it would be the other guy.
hmmm. I didn't have a plan for the inverse of the plan announcement. A short term crash, then the market ramps? I'm not betting on it, but...
There will be a huge run-up followed by the king of all reversals. After it breaks downward, we won't see positive movement for over a week....
Thank God for the pattern daytrader rules. Just think for a minute how much worse this economic catastrophe would be if we had pattern daytraders...
I can't speak for the original poster, but in my view, regulatory oversight is different than intervention. Minimal but adequate oversight is...
Well said. To do otherwise undermines the mechanism that makes free markets work, especially at this scale. The true value of goods and...
Paulson and Bernanke, the two bald guys, put their heads together and made and ass out of themselves.
There are cosmic rays that have much more energy than what the LHC can put out. If colliding particles at that energy were enough to do us in, we...
I agree. They wouldn't have done something like this unless they were preparing for financial armageddon. It's like in the b-horror movies when...
Bush giving a press conference would imply that there was some sort of problem. There isn't a problem, is there? Last I heard, he said the...
What did John McCain say to Sarah Palin? No, you idiot! I said lick my erection, not wreck my election!! (this joke works in every...
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