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Michael Lewis's books and statements are ringing loudly in my head: Wall Street is Las Vegas with much better, more powerful (the most powerful) and best connected lobbyists.

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Real estate, even in the best waterfront locations, was far less expensive even in real dollars, back in the decline in 1987 to 1994, than today. I'm talking La Jolla and Malibu, even. That was the time to buy unless prices go far lower in the next couple of years.

I would love to see Texas secede. See ya, mofos!!! Good luck to you! Don't come back begging when the energy boom totally busts!!! If you cause the U.S. any problems, we will strafe, bomb and use many MOABs on your ass.

Volcker should be put in charge of all, and Summers relegated to a closet shared with Geithner, for the good of the Republic. They can spoon bread pudding under the door every hour or so. I heard Summers loves rich bread pudding.

My bet is Sandisk is one of them. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aiFDeNPU31oM&refer=home

I actually think you're an asshole, so everyone has an opinion. In case you missed it, I called all major downturns well in advance since '07, during which turder was getting destroyed on his paper trading account. Some call it luck. Some say I knew something and put 2 and 2 together...

Volcker has been mysteriously absent the last month or so, and that's deeply troubling to me, as he's the one Obama's inner circle that still has any measure of credibility, IMO. I had thought he had gotten pissed trying to go up against Summers and Geithner (Paulson's little lackey) and...

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12165116?source=rss Silicon Valley unemployment rate jumps to record 11% By Pete Carey Mercury News Posted: 04/17/2009 10:32:21 AM PDT Updated: 04/18/2009 04:20:27 AM PDT Silicon Valley's unemployment rate jumped to a record 11 percent last month, and...

Bwahahahaha!!!!!!!! Coming from you, the irony is so thick I can cut it with your forehead!!!!! Your back to down only 70% or 75% now, right? You're the best trader ever, and you have no problem boasting about it!!! :p

I never said the S&P was going anywhere near 400 or 300, moron. Pull your head out of turder's ass. That's just sheer desperation.

turder's back!!!!!!!!!! He's back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The die are now cast and the market shall resume its plunge. It's happened each and every time. It's the best contrary indicator ever to have been discovered. We barely heard from him, if at all, during the last two weeks.

There are loser stockbrokers who hang out here and frown on any thread that rings true and casts pessimism on the integrity of the markets - their livelihoods depend on people buying into their bullshit, and business hasn't been so great for them lately. I am the first one to admit I don't...

Heed these words: When we look back in history, the taxpayer will get a return, if they're lucky, of 20 cents on the dollar expended under TARP, TALF or any other plan to be announced in the future that attempts or purports to attempt to deal with the toxic assets on bank balance sheets...

Sheldon Adelson just flew over to Macau to have a pow-wow with Stanley Ho. As many of you know, Mr. Ho is the man with the connections to the Chinese Government Top Guns, and is the driving force behind MPEL, which is the current whale in Macau VIP gaming, as it knows its market best, and as...

This is a stark and excellent example of what happens when one tries to rig the game with cooking the books and playing with the numbers. The market despises this. Another example will manifest itself, also, as a result of the FASB mark-to-fantasy game regulators approved. Bank Regulators...

I guess they can be looked at either way, depending on what they're set up to do at any given moment, and what their ultimate aspirations are (are they in retirement mode, do they want to expand, are they handing the business off to their kids?). Getting back to the tone of this thread - I...

The contractors I am familiar with are actually scared of buying land or anything else that requires a big investment. They are psychologically set up to get paid on a contract, sum certain, for doing the things that are in their comfort zone. The ones that used to be contractors learned...

At this juncture, the U.S. economy has to produce 142,000 jobs per month in order for the employment rate to remain 'static.' if anything less than that is produced, the unemployment rate will continue to rise. If anything more than that is produced, the unemployment rate will decline. If...

On the contrary, they're the canaries in the coal mine. If you call them and they don't return your calls for a while, despite having good relations with them, that's a sign that they're busy, and it's a creeping affect, where there was no clear signal before. Of course, in the last year...