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E-Trade was about preserving/boosting option/equity order-flow. Prices paid on the credit book was not ugly as everyone suggests. Lastly, BlackRock participated in the capital raising as well. Keep the good times rollin! :D

Ken is as stoic as they say. Ann is a gem, but perhaps a bit restless. Both have occupied minds you might say, but what do you expect in this business and those kind of chips? Ken has lawyers and he likes to use them...everything is negotiable. :D

I hope you don't commute I-290. :D

Precisely Brandon... If it takes the collapse of the financial system to take Citadel down, I think I can excuse that. :D

Nitro - You are correct that it is not appropriate to blame the derivatives themselves, the CMO is far superior to the REMIC structure. Same goes for securitization in general. The major breakdown was in origination. The ability of banks to distribute the loans and focus on fees/volume...

Cutten - Over or under $125 on oil September 1, 2008? :D

Correction... The shit will hit the fan by the end of the Summer Olympics. :D

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.5660: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000 For all the rookies that know it all... :D

I know one firm's chief global strategist said it would take a "terrorist" event in the straight of hormuz to get oil over $100. Economists don't make good traders... Right now, I would encourage everyone to question the mainstream economists' position that we will skirt a recession! :D

OR It means that the I-banks are trying to paint a picture for the many dow theorists. "D

"The public is not in the mood for tax cheats?" Do you mean the Treasury/IRS isn't? Paulsen is one of the biggest cheats out there by way of the tax waiver he got for joining Bush Co. .gov That exemption was rolled out just before he moved to .gov...go figure! :D

No more currency has been made, but money has been introduced via debt and sees oil as the most productive place to sit right now. When the debt goes goodbye, so does the money that was used to make oil and whatever other assets go higher. :D

I got stopped out the other day at 31.25...I bought on the sell-off last summer for a nice profit and again in march for a nice profit. I look forward to buying the next sell-off too. :D

Craigslist :D

Sell it :D

Shorting Iceland...is that a midget porn fetish or something? :D

Who says you need the stop book to know where the stops are at? :D

Please refrain from quoting L*ndis... He apparently missed the Fed's memo from 2002 that real estate only goes up. The issue is NOT and has NOT been liquidity...solvency is at the core of the issue. Solvency of the banks, solvency of the US, and the solvency of a critical mass of...

Correction... The only thing keeping them alive is Paulsen holding the ratings agencies at gun point. :D

Landis you are going on ignore...You add nothing to ET but page views. You are right though, it's not a conspiracy. Wall Street is a liquidity pool to transfer wealth. For it to be a conspiracy it would need to be secret...right? The market is only a random walk to those on the wrong...