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I am amazed that you can over come the ask/bid spread.

Some people keep mentioned that GS repay TARP and therefore all is good. The main tools that government use are varies facilities Fed setup to pump liquidity to banks. That amount is way more than 700B. Just look at how much the Fed's balance sheet grow. During the crisis, in order to...

Remember subprime? It is now the official government policy. FHA 3% down + $8000 credit + FED buying mortgage papers

U.S. is not going to go the war path because. 1) It can't even stay in Iraq for long. 2) It still has this little war in afghan and I don't see people cheering for it. 3) Other countries has been propping up US dollar for a long time to hold their export. What they want is the...

Somehow, I want to hear more about spitzer than this.

Ivanovich voted with his feet. Unless you are not in US, I failed to see why I won't believe Ivanovich. If you never live outside of US before, you simply don't know how good you had it. Unless I see low income US citizen going outside of US for work, US has one of the best living standard.

Could someone tell me why it needs 1 billion to clean up?

Do you mind telling us what is your background? Are you in the financial industry already? A math professor? Something like that..:)

Why you guys still buy these 2x 3x leveraged fund? Just buy puts or short the market. You need to know how much you are paying for VIX.

First, you want the consumer to decide what they want to spend on. Tax cut leave the decision to those people. Second, 60% of the population paid tax, it is only reasonable for them to decide where they want to spend the extra cash on. I will go for env friendly policy as much as the...

Look at this Panic upgrading going with panic buying. He is about $200 too late. Is this the highly talent wallstreet professional that we need to keep around?

Yes, this is borderline panic buying.

CFC is another program to reward bad behavior. Simple, just cut tax 3% for a year. Let's be honest. Good program means you are getting cash. Bad means you are not getting cash.

Sure debt is debt. Genius..:)

Let say if I give you a normal margin account, you blow up and come to me. Then, I change it to a margin account with no limit and 0% interest rate. Will you make money now? http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/how-you-finance-goldman-sachs%E2%80%99-profits Goldman Sachs was an...

Ah... So, you can take the best of both sides. (investment bank and a regular bank) Come again? What's the reason of separating investment banks and regular banks? GS really need to die, broken up. Essential it is a giant margin account with no limit and 0% margin interest rate.

This doesn't sound too complicated. As long as the future premium cover tankers rental cost, physical delivery cost...etc. If it is a sure bet, you can leverage to the teeth too. I am surprised that tanker companies don't do this themselves.

Well, can he restructure his relationship with citi as a client and take on multiple banks as client instead? No reason why he has to restrict himself to one bank only. Looks like this question has been asked before. I just have to look back..:)

That sounds just like real time strategy games.

Seriously, if you can demand a 100 mil contract, is there a reason why you won't start your own firm?