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can't invoke total fear and panic now :cool:

40 banks stupid enough to lend to them...they can kiss those lines goodbye :D

as W would say, we'd be supporting the terrorists...:p :D

nice headline :) [pers. emphasis] http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1230248820070814 "Blood in the water" in Florida property market By Tom Brown CAPE CORAL, Florida (Reuters) - Phone books that were delivered but never opened rot away next to empty driveways and...

well done :)

It's history in the making...enjoy the ride.

guess the solace is that you were only down some vs. down what you could have been with that move. Oh well, shake it off. Everyone screws up at least once on these things...we are human after all :D

makes you wonder how bad some of these people are hurting right now :D

definitely turning into one of the best threads of the year...

add another to the list... Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Basis Capital Fund Management Ltd. told investors losses at one of its hedge funds may exceed 80 percent as the U.S. subprime mortgage rout prompted creditors to force the Sydney-based company to sell assets. Basis Capital is unable to...

right? amazing. I thought it would at least stabilize out a little bit and trickle down...but it broke 20 in one day (down 4.50 at this posting to 19.96) Looks like this one may go American-style soon (and that bad boy's at a paltry $0.22)...maybe many learned their lesson off of that...

yep. These threads are pointless.

nice how the head of the toymaking company in China committed suicide over this...and the one who sold him the paint? An old childhood friend.

January 1st-July 19th Dow +12.3% S&P 500 +9.5% Nasdaq +12.6% After today (give or take a small margin on the close) Dow +5.2% S&P 500 +1.3% Nasdaq +4.2% Didn't take long to wipe out a lot of those gains...

well done...even if it slips a bit further (breaking 25 into the low 20s), it may be still a little while before the "tanking" measures come in...or at least push it down enough to be hardly worth going either way on it.

CNBC Sentinel Management Group, an Illinois-based money-market mutual fund for commodities, has told clients it won't satisfy redemption requests from clients and won't accept new investments, according to CME Group, operator of the world's largest derivatives exchange. Sentinel, which has...

more actual story... Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Sentinel Management Group Inc., a Northbrook, Illinois-based money manager, has asked regulators for permission to halt investor withdrawals. The firm contacted the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for approval to halt redemptions ``until we...

don't forget the PST people "just waking up" at noon...:p

Slicing and dicing to reduce overall risk...for some. The rest, well, that's your problem to deal with...:cool:

Sentinel Management Group has asked permission from the CFTC to halt money market redemptions. Sentinel's inability to meet significant redemption requests has exacerbated the liquidity concerns that have led many to believe a real credit crunch is forthcoming. Letters have apparently been...