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How many of us now truly and fully accept that the United States of America, leading global advocate of 'free markets,' 'laissez faire' economic policy, 'Adam Smith,' and 'deregulation' of markets, is now.... ...utterly and completely and hopelessly dead, and that we're as socialistic as any...

Take a mil off the table and have stock_trd3r run the other 6 for you.

You now know the difference between material wealth and passion. A lack of passion sucks, no? I'm not rubbing it in, but rather, relating to the emptiness I happen to also be feeling lately.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3bgwCfNYpAg&refer=home Berkshire Has ‘Nowhere to Hide’ in Worst Drop in Three Decades By Hugh Son Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. slumped 32 percent last year, the worst performance in...

The greatest paradox of all is that the people that governments, including ours, need to spend, spend. spend (i.e. the ones who can afford to), already have everything they need, for the most part. It will be hard to stimulate spending amongst this group when they are bitten badly and in...

MS will never get away with this. Not with the likes of Google and a billion other companies and people waiting to slice Microsoft's throat.

This is the official thread for stock_trad3r to list those stocks he believes will do well in 2008. After all, he "knows how stocks werk. Werd." Okay, stocky, time to make up for your truly abysmal 2008 (one of the worst track records of all time, with over 83% of the your wealth...

2009 and going forward... We didn't realize how incredibly inefficient and enormous a bubble we've just lived through with the 70 trillion dollar real estate bubble (global)...until now. That bubble wealth made it possible to lever every asset, borrow as much as businesses and consumers...

So perfect for stock_turdler3. Spray it on him, get his wings sticky, and flush him down the toilet.

Great thread. At least watch the first 45 minutes - it's all just fact straight from the federal reserve's very own playbook: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

Journal of a Plague Year: Faith in Markets Cracks Under $30 Trillion Loss http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ataVotdLreS0&refer=home Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) - It has been a year of record misery: the largest bankruptcy, bank failure and Ponzi scheme in U.S. history; $720...

Some would say the same about equity markets. :eek: stck_turder3. Werd.

Barclays's Harris Says `Worst Is Ahead' for U.S. Economy December 30 (Bloomberg) -- Ethan Harris, co-head of U.S. economic research at Barclays Capital Inc., and Richard DeKaser, chief economist at National City Corp., talk with Bloomberg's Peter Cook about the outlook for the U.S. economy...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aQkQU2qtobh0&refer=home Atlantic City Bleeds as Would-Be Gamblers Pay Bills By Terrence Dopp Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- It’s 3:45 a.m. in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Jimmy Panagiotou just walked away from the poker table after 5...

Jobs is irreplaceable. Did you ever hear the term 'key man?' No insurance company would insure Apple against the loss of value in the event of the loss of Jobs as an active manager of the company; you can't price that loss in according to any calculus.

Epic observation, mak. :)

Thanks Privately controlled Federal Reserve!!! You're too good to us!!! http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a160y41WSJvk&refer=home

Yes, there are some real morons on this site. I give a heads up to probably the best malware/antivirus software made for $10 (regularly $40 or more), and some morons rank the thread one star. Real winners...we got a parade of real winners here.

Someone needs to do a 6 degrees of separation of Kevin Bacon to outline 6 other people who got screwed over by Madoff. You know other Hollywood Hotshots did. I'll start with an easy one; Kevin Bacon was in 'A Few Good Men,' which also starred Jack Nicholson, and Jack Nicholson was in 'The...