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Woulda, coulda, shoulda right? Are you one of VN's parasitic groupies as well or are you truly this ignorant? His pre-blowup track record includes another blowup, so I have absolutely no idea what sterling record you speak of.

Jem has hit the nail on the head in his assessment of not just VN, but the entire culture of bullshit we have witnessed over the better part of the past decade. I honestly believed we would move beyond this crap after the past year and that we would not have to revisit this sort of thing...

Both Praetorian and Profitseer had not posted in nearly 3 years prior to that post. Nor have they posted since. Praetorian was a regular here until he started his fund which closed late last year. I don't know much about Profitseer.

Looks like Makloda was right. I remember looking at their site last fall when this thread appeared and the performance numbers looked somewhat ridiculous. Any of the guys invested with this place have an update? Some guys on the yahoo boards saying they can't get their money out and the...

The last new car I purchased some years ago now I remember purchasing for $7000 less than the sticker cost anyway. A good used car I purchased within the last year was approximately 30% off their listed price. This whole cash for clunkers fiasco just reaffirms what I've known for quite...

I'm just trying to figure out what he was on. I'm sure a number of guests over the years have been "tweaked out" but they still could form a coherent sentence. He was so out of his mind that absolutely nothing he said was coherent.

I'm a bit shocked as well. He was a frequent guest on CNBC not more than 3 months ago. He seemed to be doing very well for his age.

Midway Games was an enormous hit for Sumner Redstone. An excellent article about him: http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2009/01/07/Sumner-Redstone-and-Viacom-Losses

Typically, creditors will use different CRA's depending upon geographic location. For instance, someone in Texas opening an account at Chase might have their TransUnion score used, while Equifax might be used for another state. It's been awhile since I've tracked this sort of thing, but a...

Chase is renowned for this kind of crap. I'm not saying the other "too big to fail" institutions such as B of A and Citi are much better, but Chase is as bad as it gets. This is really at the heart of why this economy is doomed. These usurious interest rates are strangling consumers. The...

The dirty little secret are those HOA monthly dues. Check out how a home that they would auction for $150k would have to cough up close to a grand a month just to keep the maintenance staffers around to keep the place from falling into complete dis-repair. About 3-4 years ago, a well known...

It's just a hunch, but I've long suspected that stockboy has been here for years. I suspected the guy was one of the many bears back in 03-06 when this market went on its credit fueled launch higher. I'd bet if we dig some digging we could even find his old alias. He came back here to troll...

Sudden Debt blogspot is very good. The blogger also posts a number of statistical charts that you probably won't find elsewhere.

Rubin?

If any of you guys were with IB back in 2002, you probably remember the dreaded "Cannot value this contract at this time" message box on a frequent basis. I probably had that happen to me at least a half dozen times during all the volatility between July and Oct of 02. You guys can draw...

That is a nice perk. On the other hand, if push comes to shove, simply cancelling the current credit card by telling the creditor the card was lost will also do the trick. They will simply assign another card number and the data provider would be out of luck.

It's far more practical to just watch dvd's with Spanish selected as the audio and English subtitles. Newscasts and/or television programs without subtitles are just too advanced and difficult to understand until you have a real mastery of all the vocabulary, verb tenses, etc. IMO, Spanish...

See, that is a large part of the problem. You think the Florida real estate market is languishing, take a peak at Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and certainly parts of Illinois. It is all a chain of events. Lack of liquidity in one locale effects the liquidity in another. Obviously, a...

It's good to see Cutten back again. Keep posting, the site has been sorely lacking any sort of perspective gained from experience in the markets.

I agree Joey. No question, everyone was leaning bearish in early Sept thru Oct, all figuring the market would follow the normal Sept-Oct correction. However, there is no way the same people who were burned short during the Sept-Oct rally were then going to start heavily shorting in early...