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Really now? Is this why the rate on 1-month T Bills just went negative? No panic? You need a reality check my friend.

How about clean, efficient, and SMART oversight? Let's face it. Sarbanes Oaxley has done nothing but sent capital overseas. Other than that, it has not protected the market place as intended. Problem is, we are on the precipice. This won't be a "plain-vanilla" recession. Not even...

Good post! Congress is simply too stupid to even read in-between the lines of what Bernanke is saying. None of these morons have ever taken a course in Capital Markets or Econ. 1 for that matter. Bernanke WANTS to use the "D-word" but doesn't want to do so publicly and send the markets...

Are you talking about Iraq . . . Or all of the "pork" and "entitlements" that this Country has been handing out over the years? Take a good look at that $300 billion dollar "Farm Bill" that got re-labeled the "Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008". - - - $52 Billion in farm subsidies...

Agreed. But then again, many here on ET have been advocating rate hikes for the past year . . . These are the same people that have very little understanding of how Capital Markets work, or how 33:1 leverage in an OTC under-the-desk marketplace with no oversight and regulation can kill you...

Yes, I can. Especially in a $14 TRILLION DOLLAR marketplace. Show some perspective, my friend.

I believe that House of Represenative Majority Leader from 1995-2003, Republican Dick Armey was a "bartender" at this Party.

There were no "regulations" in the OTC mortgage-backed securities market to begin with! That was why there was 33:1 leverage used by investment funds. It was the use of leverage that took down the banking system; counter-parties and all. I don't believe that anyone actually thought for a...

Sounds like I struck a "nerve" in your failed logic and naive generalizations. And to top it all off, you resort to having to use a profanity to make your point. This is why this website has little to no value anymore . . . People that offer nothing more than illogical claims, grand...

You obviously have not been involved in the markets for very long. The October Crude Oil contract expired on Monday. It's called a SHORT SQUEEZE. Nothing more. Nothing less.

You imply that Fannie and Freddie were "regulated" . . . You can't be serious. Please feel free to tell me who it was that allowed 33:1 leverage on mortgage-backed securities in the profit-driven, laissez faire environment of Wall Street?

Since when has the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department EVER proposed putting a bid under "Tier-3" level assets in the banking system? Talk about a "microwave society in your brain" . . . Get your facts straight. Typical ET logic. :D

You make a rather simplistic assumption that the U.S. economy only faces nothing worse than a "recession". (Have you even looked at how frozen the Commercial Paper market is lately?) You also make the assumption that by putting a "bid" under T-3 level assets, that this whole thing will...

How ironic that you advocate Economic Darwinism at this point and time, when there was no oversight or regulation on the WAY UP that created this mess in the first place.

Many of you guys on this thread are forgetting that Republican Dick Armey, who was the House Majority Leader from 1995-2003 simply sat by and did nothing while all of this mortgage crap was going on . . . It was ALL about how free-markets without oversight or smart regulation would be the...

via Berkshire Hathaway to the tune of $5 Billion, announced around 5:45PM Est.

Baron's website has become ( for years now ) a place for college kids to toil in the markets in between taking classes and doing their homework. The website is "littered" with crap from people who don't trade for a living . . . As a result, the most valuable Forums can be found in places like...

What do you expect from yet another BUSH appointee??? :D

Old news. http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={2820A630-C31B-44F8-8D3D-7BB6990913B3}&siteid=yhoof2

OIH.