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If I didn't click on that link and see the actual, real title myself, I'd have though it was a spoof from The Onion or something: U.S. Treasury asking banks keep quiet on stress tests Thu Apr 9, 2009 10:19pm EDT By Karey Wutkowski WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department...

So you lost 70% on your paper trades from waaaay back in 2007 for other reasons?

They want me to work many hours per week, and extensive travel is required. If I were overseas, as in Shanghai or Seoul, two of their still viable markets, I'd be possibly working in excess of 70 or 80 hours per week, with an unknown quantity as to the staff I'd be assigned. This is the...

Next time? 'This Time' isn't exactly over by a mile.

TARP Banks Will Be Required to Modify Home-Mortgage Loans, HUD Chief Says http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aLshgpdLNkLs&refer=home By Dawn Kopecki April 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. banks receiving federal aid through the Troubled Asset Relief Program will be required to...

"marking-to-myth" I love it, and I am going to use it.

Just an afterthought here - if we did manage to close red today, that'd be very ominous. It'd represent massive profit taking telling us the markets are deeply skeptical (rightfully so) of anything WFC had to say, and that it won't risk not banking profit given the tremendously bad earnings...

lol

This stress test was the human equivalent of a 50 foot walk on a treadmill at .00027 mph.

Total B.S. as most of you have mentioned. First red flag; they had to make an early announcement. Think about the reasons as to why that'd be. Now that the FASB rules have been so relaxed to the point that there's literally no transparency as to the solvency of bank balance sheets, they...

Everything he says is truth. The guy's sharp and honest. I knew who he was because he spoke of the 'realignment of the south' as one of the factors that would most greatly influence politics from the 80s onward. Paulson's a piece of shit criminal, Bernanke is incompetent, and Geithner is...

How's Manhattan holding up? Wait, don't answer that. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/realestate/manhattan/09real.html?hp HOUSING SLUMP HITS MANHATTAN The owner of a 17-room co-op on West End Avenue lowered her asking price 46 percent. By JOSH BARBANEL Published: April 8, 2009...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/realestate/manhattan/09real.html?hp HOUSING SLUMP HITS MANHATTAN The owner of a 17-room co-op on West End Avenue lowered her asking price 46 percent. By JOSH BARBANEL Published: April 8, 2009 While sales have picked up a bit in some suffering...

Port.

That goes nicely with this: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/01boats.html?hp Boats Too Costly to Keep Are Littering Coastlines Officials are investigating a sailboat left on the marshy banks of a creek in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Article Tools Sponsored By By DAVID...

Cramer's a clown.

Thanks. Marketwatch's site is FUBAR.

Bernanke & Co. have abandoned any pretense of eloquence and have adopted use of 'street slang.' http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Worsening-economy-forced-FOMCs-hand/story.aspx?guid={2047179C-CC83-4ABE-9B88-9265A1CB25E7} Worsening economy forced FOMC's hand: minutes By Rex Nutting...

Nice. Hacking originated in China and Russia. Such a comforting feeling knowing that if all hell breaks loose, I will have to get a diesel generator if I want my whole grain waffles. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123914805204099085.html?mod=googlenews_wsj