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Any time anyone spoke up, they were shouted down. Imagine how politically popular saying "not every American should buy a home and it's a bad idea to lower credit standards to allow unqualified buyers to gamble with bank investors' money." You would have been accused of being anti-poor and a...

I don't always watch CNBC and I don't always unmute when he comes on, but the few times I heard him talk about the bailout, he didn't seem for it. Plus, the plan kept changing from bazookas in Hammering Stammering Hank's pocket to just buying the worst assets to the TARP just becoming a...

Oh good! You're exhibit One.

That's the problem with a single digit IQ.

Thank you for your thoughtful remarks, Village Idiot. Your arguments were incredibly convincing. Now, run along back to your play group and stop messing with your parents' computer.

Too stupid to do anything else, I guess.

Unfortunately, we're doing the same thing Japan did to creaete a 15 year recession. While some people may be upside down in their mortgages, it doesn't mean that their neighbour who made prudent decisions should be forced to pay for the bad fortune, mistakes or even outright fraud of their...

Can they, Landis? Is that really in their power? That's a rhetorical question. It isn't in their power and it has never been in government's power. 505% here and 5.5% there and pretty soon you're talking real numbers. The problem is that if you commit future production to today's...

LOL!! Exactly!

I hear you SWtrader, but it's been a long day and I was just having some fun. :)

If it passes, it won't pass without exemptions. If it does pass without exemptions, they will soon write in exemptions. If neither happens, then market makers will widen their markets and get the SEC & CFTA to create regulations that reduces competition even more to compensate them for the...

So what are you saying? You don't think Barney Frank is super sexy? [blech!!]

Oh...well...clearly you've never heard of the Keynesian multiplier and you don't recognize that that in NORMAL times the market works okay but in abnormal times the laws of economics stop working. Sort of like the laws of gravity only work sporadically. [/sarcasm]

Very astute. The economist, Greg Mankiw, points out on his blog today that there is no metric by which to measure saved jobs. He calls the "create and save" language "political genius" because no matter how many jobs are lost, Obama can always say it would have been worse without the...

The Village Idiot speaks!

C'mon. You're going to parse words. Trained, paid, good ole' boy network. what's the difference? Oh come ON. What is he? Your lover? Geez it's just another dude on the floor. How about we replace every "Bolling" in my example with "Mook #1". The example still works. And I'm talking...

No, I'm not thin-skinned. I actually laughed out loud reading your post.

Awe, now don't get all upset, Landis. I didn't mean it as a personal insult to you or anything. Sorry...."Bollinger" is an inside joke I won't bore you explaining. That was a slip. I'm sorry if our opinion of Bolling differs. That's just going to happen sometimes. You shouldn't take...

Yep, I have. Den of thieves. Never been in the S&P pit as I've always been in New York, but my very best guess is that's also a den of thieves - particularly the years you mention. Let's face it, most floor trading is all about ripping off customers either by getting regulators to encode...

I'm guessing from the name that you and I are from the same country. It's so cute when the American left doesn't even know what Marxism is but spews Marxian axioms like a machine gun. These morons thing free markets + Marxist.