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Did ya hear people are buying U.S. Treasuries? Its a flight to quantity. (I made that one up myself)

I disagree. The reason the market is down is because it isn't worth more than this right now. It might even be overvalued

You can draw an analogy between the economics of the country and the economics of a family: You and your wife both make a nice income. You have your cars paid off, $10k in the bank, not much debt. Your economics are fundamentally sound. Then you go on a bender, and in an all-night...

Hey John McCain, You said we would "know their names". The pork pushers had the gall put wooden arrows, rum, film and television production on the most despicable, unpopular, expensive piece of legislation in our history. I haven't heard their names! Who did it? Or will you tell us only...

You are off a bit on your mathematics, agassi. If you cancel out six zero's, you get $85000/200 = $425 per person. Common mistake, actually. Nobody is used to working with these big numbers.

Truly unbelievable. If you ranked the assholes most responsible for this clusterfuck and stuffed them in a phone booth, counting down one-at-a-time from the top, Paulson would fit in that phone booth with ease. (If you then dumped this phone booth in the East River, it wouldn't be a bad...

It is beginning to feel like a mine field. Any crazy unpredictable thing can happen which will set off giant market moves. Overall, I can't comprehend any possible way a sustained upward move could occur regardless of the outcome of the bailout. (so that is probably exactly what will happen).

The general public may be 50% for/against the bail out, but properly leveraged through exotic but illiquid derivatives it can easily be made 10-to-1 or greater!

Just thinking out loud, but what if the Gov allowed people an exemption from withdrawal penalties on money taken out of an IRA or 401k to pay their mortgage? It would have the negative effect of pressuring the stock market, and it wouldn't be totally fair to those who didn't get in over their...

They would need pass it so that it would take effect 12 years down the road. That way they wouldn't feel the ill effects, it would be the other guy.

hmmm. I didn't have a plan for the inverse of the plan announcement. A short term crash, then the market ramps? I'm not betting on it, but it could happen.

There will be a huge run-up followed by the king of all reversals. After it breaks downward, we won't see positive movement for over a week. Deep down, nobody really thinks 700 billion will fix this. Just like in poker, it's a bet amount sized to make your opponent think it is a good value.

Thank God for the pattern daytrader rules. Just think for a minute how much worse this economic catastrophe would be if we had pattern daytraders buying and selling stocks, willy-nilly. Sometimes all day long! Score a big win for market oversight!

I can't speak for the original poster, but in my view, regulatory oversight is different than intervention. Minimal but adequate oversight is necessary. (ahh, but what is adequate oversight...) To me, it is common sense to require limits on margin. But if you blow that, you can't call...

Well said. To do otherwise undermines the mechanism that makes free markets work, especially at this scale. The true value of goods and services should be determined, to as great an extent as possible, without intervention. For example, I think home prices are still too high relative...

Paulson and Bernanke, the two bald guys, put their heads together and made and ass out of themselves.

There are cosmic rays that have much more energy than what the LHC can put out. If colliding particles at that energy were enough to do us in, we probably wouldn't be here now. The thing about the LHC is that they collide in front of a "camera", not that they are of a spectacular energy, at...

I agree. They wouldn't have done something like this unless they were preparing for financial armageddon. It's like in the b-horror movies when they put a ten pound chair in front of the door to keep the killer out. It seem desperate. Either that or they really are complete and total...

Bush giving a press conference would imply that there was some sort of problem. There isn't a problem, is there? Last I heard, he said the economy was strong.

What did John McCain say to Sarah Palin? No, you idiot! I said lick my erection, not wreck my election!! (this joke works in every presidential race, though not so well in this one as previous others. YET!)