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Knock Knock! Who's There? Eyjafjallajokull The fuck you say?

Fwiw, I've just finished a book which covers many of your thoughts. The book is short and sweet. "Letters to a Young Lawyer" by Alan Dershowitz

Eyjafjallajokull I thought it was the name of a new member of ET.

I'm lost here. Why civil charges and not criminal. You'd think the SEC would forward to the AG. Civil charges would be easier to prove? Before this is all over, politics will be the culprit.

Maybe there's no way to make an honest buck. You need more and more money to make a smaller amd smaller profit. Regulation (insurance and liability) is the thief of common sense, I mean this in the broadest sense.

Can the government set up a regulatory system that won't end up controlled by Wall Street? Why or why not? ------------------------------- I think this is a pointless question going forward. Maybe a better question is: Can we have a Wall Street that the gov't won't bail out? Will it...

Buyers were disappearing as banks tightened lending, slowly at first.

Why didn't the guys who went long on this ...and so enabled the ones who shorted it... continue to go long ? ------------------------------ Imo, because they were able to do so with borrowed money. When the commercial paper market froze up there wasn't any money for anyone to go long on...

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In addition, that guy who badmouthed Cramer today was previously an analyst for Moody's. He authored a book on structured finance perhaps he should of sent a free copy to the rating agencies before he picks on GS.

In the recent Lehman book, guys were trading against others in house. There was no consensus, it was every director for himself. For chrissakes these guys were betting against Fuld trying to save him from himself and save Lehman. Point being, it may look like they are trading against the...

:D :D :D I was thinking the same thing, maybe a few members of Congress too.

Litigation is a cloud and Imo would offer a poor return at the moment.

Perhaps, since "everyone was doing it" the SEC charges the biggest and the best, GS takes all the heat, sort of like a class action SEC vs GS (WS practices) GS wins SEC doesn't charge anyone else with fraud for these practices. Maybe GS has more defensible defense rather than the others WS cos.

Goldman was not the only firm that peddled these complex securities — known as synthetic collateralized debt obligations, or C.D.O.’s — and then made financial bets against them, called selling short in Wall Street parlance. Others that created similar securities and then bet they would...

Imo, this is all very important. Oth, if everyone who applies for a job is a facebook fuck up employers will not have much choice. Brings me back to my younger days, there was a bar fight, the barmaid was going to call the cops. I said, "I'm outta here, I might be a Senator one day and don't...

Our gov't does promote and accommodate superstitious rituals, foot baths come to mind.

Ahhmmmm.... Bernanke takes credit for light in the sky...recession is over... in Milwaukee. woo hoo... market rally tomorrow.

1) It's Obama's new space program. We don't need no stinkin moon we be going to asteriods (or in this case, asteriods come to us) That Obamer he's got the touch. 2) A sign in the sky for GS. Can I get an "Amen" for doing Gods work?

coinkydink? Federal judge rules Day of Prayer unconstitutional By TODD RICHMOND (AP) – 2 hours ago MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge in Wisconsin ruled the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional Thursday, saying the day amounts to a call for religious action.