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http://www.zerohedge.com/article/open-market-operations-and-statistics

California isn't a competitor to GS. :)

Good work, neke. You do need to rectify the Net Balance, though. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBbwfOdjLko It's a pity Spitzer succumbed to temptation and derailed his own career...

Solution: Use widescreen monitors in portrait mode. :)

Configuration > Display > Settings "To potentially improve the speed with which panels and lists display in TWS, check to disable animated effects on opening/closing panels, displaying lists etc." Worth checking!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuMkW35BwK8 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era. Learn how to make simple yet delicious dishes while listening to stories from the Depression.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601213&sid=aiuR.GNB5vbA&refer=home Biggs, co-founder of New York-based hedge fund Traxis and formerly chief global strategist for Morgan Stanley, said in February last year that U.S. stocks were “very, very cheap” and the market was “at or very...

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aZNVp3qbKhJM&refer=home “In the past year, the U.S. has provided over $218 million in humanitarian assistance to Zimbabwe. We are the leading donor,’’ McGee said. “What is the Mugabe regime doing? It is buying hundreds of cars so that...

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a5PEgwA8j68M&refer=home If you haven't figured it out by now, America has hired the wrong Paulson. There are two of them, Hank and John. Hank turned Goldman Sachs from an investment bank into a busload of tourists going to a casino, with...

“It is hard for us, without being flippant, to even see a scenario within any kind of realm of reason that would see us losing one dollar in any of those transactions.” — Joseph J. Cassano, a former A.I.G. executive, August 2007 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/business/28melt.html...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403033_pf.html With banks, runs occur only when depositors panic, because they fear the loan book is bad. Deposit insurance takes care of that. So why not eliminate the pointless $100,000 cap on federal deposit insurance...

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersComService4/idUSTRE48O3QS20080925?sp=true Paulson and Bernanke's 'Hold-to-Maturity' plan is really just the new 'Mark-to-Myth', and even its heroic proportions are not likely to paper over solvency problems in the banking system.

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aNKGD.bJwmRA&refer=home "It doesn't seem to me that a lot decisions that we're going to have to live with for a long time have to be made by Friday," said Robert Lucas, a University of Chicago economist and 1995 Nobel Prize winner who signed the...

http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHeROL9EmlRg&refer=home Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd offered an alternative today to the Bush administration's financial rescue plan aimed at giving the U.S. Treasury an equity stake when it helps companies burdened by debt...

Fair point.

http://hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc080922.htm In summary, the Treasury proposal to address current financial difficulties places corporate bondholders ahead of the public, rewards irresponsible risk-taking, and sets a precedent for future bailouts. [...] Congress can benefit the American...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/opinion/22krugman.html Paul Krugman: "... the financial system needs more capital. And if the government is going to provide capital to financial firms, it should get what people who provide capital are entitled to — a share in ownership, so that all the...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1hr1v2FUeAg&refer=home "Paulson would have authority to buy home loans, mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-related assets and, after consultation with the Federal Reserve chairman, ``other assets, as deemed necessary to...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/business/20nocera.html "That crisis, however, was very different from this one. Most of the assets in the S.& L. crisis were real estate — which are always going to have value. And the government didn’t have to acquire them; it simply took them over and...