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Actually not bad considering....when you compare to negative returns on the funds operated by Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, and the late Sowood.

For day-traders it's probably great, but for positon traders the intra-day whipsaws don't help the stop loss position trades.

Whether we like it not no person or country can ever spend its way out of bankruptcy. In simple terms look at any government like any business....the two key economic factors for business are profitibility, or forecast profibility, and cashflow. USA Inc. has severe negative cashflow but its...

I'm taking the Swiss approach to the current market war.....I'm neutral and watching from the sidelines happy to hold money in the bank.

They (FED) can only continue to print $$$ for so long before the US becomes the 21st century equivalent of the Weimar Republic. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

.....and enable the big Wall Street hedge funds to continue to trade securities, confident that their pay checks will not bounce."

Surprised? No. Pissed yes....FED has bailed out organizations that shouldn't have lent a dime to start with....including the bankers on Wall Street. My local bank uses the traditional model of lending by using customer deposits, such as CDs and then lending out as mortgages. Also local bank...

Memorandum To: All Staff of GS, BSC, ML, LEH Date: August 10, 2007 Subject: Summer Vacation Cancelled ------------------------------------------------ It has come to the managements attention that the office environment has been allowed to become untidy with junk mail and "junk...

Fed in fall bailout mode. Temporary Open Market Operations Temporary Open Market Operations for August 10, 2007 Last Updated: August 10, 2007 1:53 PM Number of Operations Today: 3 http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/omo/dmm/temp.cfm Billions of 3 day MBOs...

and Paulson was proactive to identify the upcoming problem Greenspan created with his helicopter monetry policy. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/ma...30/ccview30.xml The top brass will meet every six weeks, combining the heads of Treasury, Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange...

Maybe you need a refresher on the "Working Group on Financial Markets" aka PPT. http://www.archives.gov/federal-reg...rder/12631.html Executive Order 12631--Working Group on Financial Markets Source: The provisions of Executive Order 12631 of Mar. 18, 1988, appear at 53 FR 9421, 3 CFR...

Yeah been watching it unfolding in asia-pacific region. Becuase those markets are across the date-line they are trading on Friday. Who in their right mind there wants to hold over the weekend? They may all sell off hard prior to weekend.

what's it printing?

Two Goldman Sachs funds in trouble Computer-driven funds have suffered big losses and selling positions as a result, paper reports. August 9 2007: 3:01 PM EDT NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Two Goldman Sachs computer-driven hedge funds have sold some positions after taking a big hit in recent...

Where have you been? Cramer said it himself last Friday people on Wall Street are losing their jobs...hedge funds closing....even the 2IC from Bear Stearns lost his job last week...what does he tell the kids...he failed at work and was sacked?

Once the dust settles who to blame for the market meltdown. SEC are already working on this......hmmm lets see we could ban short selling....nah...ban short selling unless on uptick nah tried that....ban automated electronic trading....yes that's the answer we are going back to...

Countrywide Hit by Credit Market Woes By JAMES R. HAGERTY August 9, 2007 7:16 p.m. Countrywide Financial Corp. faces "unprecedented disruptions" in debt and mortgage-finance markets that could hurt earnings and the company's financial condition, the Calabasas, Calif., lender said in a...

Breaking news they issued release tonight...we are not bust yet...but check back tomorrow we could be bust...or will go bust any day.

Current problem looks like repeat of S&L debarkal.

Cash in bank up to $100k is government backed.